The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-06-24
She Went ShOpping.


lars at the dinner-table, and in an alb
sent moment he passsd it over without
asking her what she wanted of il. AS
soon as he had departed she pushed the
table back, and swept up the crumbs.
flung on her Sunday things as ii the
mousse were on ire, and in twenty min
utes she was in drygoods store.
Her first wish as sue opened the door
was that she had asked her husband ior
fifty dollars instead of five. She sud
Ienly remembered that she wanted a
dress, shawl, some handkerchieis, six
pairs OF hose. a white skirt, hustle,
Lable-ei oths, napkins, and about $I5O
worth OF Yankee notions.
She sataown on a stool with sigh,
pulled her right-hand glove partly OF
and reached out and felt OF some bleach
ed factory. Her fingers wandered over
70 q pile OF red WoOlen, and then turned
70 roll of crash toWling.
I'D like to look at some alpaca" she
said as the clerk came up.
"Yes s;-this way-6O cents-50 cents
| 40 cents-though 1 wouldn't advise you
10 get any Thing less that fifty ii you want
| it tor service"
She sat and looked at eleven different
pieces. He hung one piece up, gathered
| TWO yards o. another IN 1Olus and held
| lies about the rest.
.erhis is all you have?" she finally
asked, signing heavily.
'"No-blg stock up stairs-this way
please"
Sine went up stairs and oyerhauled
half a carload OF alpaca. There was
some with green tlnge, some with a
blue tinge, and some with a dead black
color. He united the bolts, flung them
around and offered her some OF the slXts
cents lor fifty cents; and just as he was
ready to measure oil eighteen yards she
said:
swell, don't see anything here to ex.
actly suit me. l think l will LOOK al
some bleacned cotton"
"Yes'm-down stai. Suggest stocks
in the clty-noW then, do you want the
best or only mediumsW
she looked at some yard-wide stuff al
sixteen cents, but it had too mucD
starch in it; she looked at some at four.
teen cents. but the width was not risnt
sue teit some tor a smiling, but it didn't
seem like the cotton VI forty years ago.
He tore down the big lpiie, reduced
| the price on every gfaue, guaranteed ner
| a better bargain than she could get any.
| where else III the city, and was Just
going to ask where he should send il,
WuGH SUE butucu away auu 6hlus
"Well, don't Know as l really need
any just now, but would like to iook ar
some merlno stockings"
"Yes'm--lhis way-best hose in the
city--ali sizes and prices."
One box had too snort legs. another
too long; anvtner WAS half cotton; an
other was too high priced ;but sue finally
took pair for tnlrty cents, saying II
tney were good sue would return for an
other pair.
sis there anything elseg' he asked as
the stockings were rolfea up.
"Let Inc see! Have you any empress
cloLnw
Thousands Of yards, msdam-right
this way"
she saw dove color, blue, chestnut
and gray, but somehow the cloth dIdn t
feel firm, or the eelor wasn't good, or the
price WAS toO hign.
sTnen you don't think you'd like a
dress OF tnls?' he askeu.
sNo-o-o, l guess not," she replied
mot to-day, but l may come down to.
morrow"
sand you can't think Of any thing
else."
II really can't. You may sent the
hose 10 No. 81 Larkins avenue, and Pil
go over to Hascalps and get pair OF
shoe STRINGS"