The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-24
SHE BOUHGT CARRIERS.
A Seminary Girls Attempt at
Economy Rudely Checked.

Chicago Herald.
You'll never tell if / tell you some
thing?"
Never"
The first speaker crossed her thin, little
bony legs a la Turk, tossed her high
crowned hat of, and began to pull up the
grass in handfulls. "Well, you remember
Mr.. H., whom we met on class day with
Kit? Well, went around with him TO
show him the drawings, and he told me
about the store on Monroe street, and said
if wanted anything to come around and
he'd sell me at wholes lie. Well, the
garters I got in Boston last summer
were all worn out, and L thought
it would be good chance to
get some more, and at wholesale, too.
So Yesterday about doom i went into that
horrid wholesale house, and as had forgot
ten lust how he looked, / asked the first
fellow met if Mr.. HI. W. in. He said
col course he is, and mighty glad OF it, and
I'm YOUR man." / told him in as low
tone as could that wanted some garter
rubber, but he became awfully deaf all OF
sudden, and had to ask him three times
before he heard me. Then he called Jim"
as loudly as he could, because he said he
didn't know much about staples. Jim was
his partner, and perfect AdOnis. be was
introduced and began 10 cut up and joke
as though he had known lne ever since
began to put my h'ir uD. They hunted
ali over for the garter rubber, they
found plenty OF hat elastic. suspenders and
those little hxings that men used to keep
their sleeves up with. such stupidity
never saw, for HI. actually looked in q
hustle box. and, pulling out big red
cushioned affair that looked like . winter
life preserver, asked me If that was what
wanted i was so vexed with myself Tor
laughing that wanted to cry, and think
Mr.. H. saw that, for just then he found
what wanted. Il was lovely scarlet silk
rubber, the prettiest shade ever saw, and,
lust think, all silk. That handsome saucy
Jim wanted to measure me. Wasn't that
shocking? And I was 50 mad. Then Mr..
II. said, You'd better take the whole piece
80 you'll be sure to have enough SO
told him all right. hid TO. or his per-
fectly abominable partner would have IN
sisted on measuring me right there. Then
they gave the bolt which guess bad about
sixty yards of rubber on it, to q clerk to
bill.' and both stood there making puns
about this whip barb pin, and my hair and
hat, and wanted to know who ponied up
the bangles Of my bracelets. When the
parcel came back and asked how much 1t
was, fat Jim said, oh, never mind the
money, We give away our goods to such
charming costumers,' and began to quote
poetry. Finally l got him to take $40
bin. and how much change do you suppose
he gave me back?"
l 81 don't know; about $S."
"Three dollars and sixty cents. l Just
jammed it into my reticule in the middle
of INV powder box which Mr.. h. saw and
wanted to know if that was sample OF
summer wheat / was Just about crimson
with rage, ind he took out pencil ana
wanted to know where he'd send II: i
grabbed it out of his hand apd said NO,
thanks for would like to have tied the
bolt around their necks and choked 0otn
of them. As / was going out jim bowed
low and said: Maid oil Athens, eie we
part, give, oh give me back my heart but
/ was so mad that / just ran Oh wi'noaI
paving the least attention to him.
Both OF these young ladies are graduates
of one of the Chicago seminaries, ana
when the above conversation took place
were seated in q very pleasant back yard OF
an elegant West Monroe street residence.
As three-quarters of yard OF ruooei -
= sufficient plenty for any style OF garters
il NAV not be amiss to tell the fair reader
whst became of the rest of the purchase.
The lovely scarlet silk elastic was cut up
and made into side straps, feather-stitched
with old gold floss, and put into hsiie
bououet boxes. and sent to each OF the
senior class. The most perplexed youth IN
the block is that college cousin, who can
not imagine what The things are ior' or
I-haro the Joke il