The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-11-04
The Woman Who Has Been shopping.

The Woman Who Has Been Shopping
Here she comes, with her arms sul
and her face flushed with heat and ex
element. She PUSHES through the pat,
and along the platform with the energ,
and fright OF one chased by an infuri
ated bull. She chambers into the car
all OF breeze, awaking the echoes, a
soon as she puts her head inside, with
the exclamation: 20 dear! how warm il
isr' addressed to her companion in nery.
ousncss-for as a matter Of course there
Is shopper mate with her.
The seats are perhaps half of them oc.
cupied, but it is not in the nature of the
shopping woman to stop in the first car.
Away she goes to the next and the next,
until she finds one which is quite full.
and then she turns about like hunted
beast at bay, and frantically retraces her
steps. BY this time the other cars have
pretty well filed up, and it is not until
she has gone way back to the rear car
that she finds two whole seats, one for
herself and mate and one for her parcels
and packages.
She is now all a-glow. Frantically
she tugs at the window. but the window
does not bulge an inch. Your car win
dow holds woman in utter contempt. Il
will yield only to the persuasive. force Of
manly muscles. 1t is to be hoped that
when woman gets her rights, car win
dows shall at last acknowledge her en-
franchisement, and cease to constantly
andperpetually remind hor. as they now
do, that she is the weaker vessel 1t would
go hard with the woman folk If co-tray-
cling OK the sexes were not the vogue.
Ii it were otherwise, the dear creatures
might suffocate before relief came to
them.
The window having relented before
The power OF man, the shopping woman,
what with her fan and the fresh breeze
from tho outside, finally gets sufficiently
cooled to look at her watch. But that is
rather from custom than from any idea
OF obtaining accurate intelligence rela-
tive to the flight Of time, sor a woman's
watch is almost rs tickle as a woman's
will. Having gone through this form,
and remarked again and again upon the
fervent temperature. the shopping
woman suddenly exclaims: "Why, we
had lots of time, hadn'twer This dis
covery furnishes fruitful theme for
conversation for many minutes. Then
follows the opening OF packages, and
the history of each purchase is told with
a minuteness quite wonderful to one who |
does not happen to be a woman. The |
air is full of ''says TSP and 'says he's,n
and OF ''lovely" and sbeautifur' and |
sini'lar aaJecuYes emphatically ex-
pressed.
man under similar circumstances
may say that ne has so-and-so in this
oundie; sucn thing In that, and some
otner thing IN q third. 1t Is different
WIN woman; when she has bought
''n ar.lc,e, sne loves 70 exhibit 1t. and she
ooIn.s y no nar9snip u sne mas 70 open
' auu Close parcei dozen times In half as
many minutes. 90 inc shopping woman
opens eacn parcel and with u her mouth,
gu. OF wnlcn nowss besides the history
Oh the particular purchase, three-vol-
ume story OK mateer relevant and irrele-
want mainly anucIpatory OF how this
WI. matcn thaS, OF how both will look |
win = sn,rd purchase OF SILK, satin or
"v, s oeaas' buttons or bonnet.
. Anc snoPping woman, engr0ssed IN
.nc en'fnnclng aetaiis O. her three-yol-
ulae s,ory; minus NOT mat the car has
cuuc'y IIteu up cne sees not the
"cary maze uiPedss whose eyes look SO
~is''ui'y ~ mat seat niied with her myr-
''m parcnascs, - Is only wnen the con-
uuccor comes that she IS aroused to things
prosalc ana 70 the necessity OF giving up
l = sA,'a seat ana even tnen, II must
- - sa' ':., s',e oocs not remove ner par
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