The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-12-04

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rest of my life. j have to wait here
almost week for my clothes, and i
am paying three dollars a day indoors
and about as much outdoors, but
do not care just this once.
He got silver-headed umbrella for
$40. He asked what a pair of sleeve
buttons would cost, and was visibly
amazed at hearing that he might pay
500 for intaglius and as high as $50
FOR cold ones. He got pretty pair
for s1S. He paid s12 for gold PEN
Gil and S. for silver toOthpick, al
though the clerk showed him tooth
picks for double the money. A set of
shirt studs worth sl20 staggered him,
and he got q moderately plain set for
so. He said he wanted a match box
but on being shown one for $500 said
that as it was the only one worth having
and yet was a ridiculous thing to pay
so much for. be wouldn't buy any.
Finally he came to the watches.
Now. said he, | want a good gold
watch, and / want one that / won't be
ashamed to haul out before any lady
in the world. The truth is | don't
live right in Pittsburgh, tut | come
from close by there, and there's good
many swells where | belong ami Pm
worth more than the whole of 'em, and
/ amt agoin' to take back seat when
| get there. 1 suppose you can show
me watches for $500
seven hundred do lars, sir, said the
clerk /; our repeater and spl:t-second
Watches are 500. But if you want
good frst-class W tch. as good for all
practical purposes as any that was ever
made, take one Of these for $500.
That is what the young man did
though not until he had handled
500 watch for several minutes most
tenderly and with longing in his eyes.
He could afford it, he said, but he
thought it would be foolish.
Curious thing! he said. quite
irrelevantIy; / don't feel as if ] had so
much money, after all. | came here
to get the very best of everything, but
/ believe when / go back | wont have
any of the hlghest-price things excep,
snUes. hat, and underclotnes. NV,
/ thought. 81 would buy the best
shoes on Broadway; but when | came
to get them they cost SIS. They are
beauties though. They have medium
soles and patent leather up over the
foot. about like slipper, and from
the leather up above the ankle they
have what are called stockineets, that
is. black silk uppers with fiesh-colored
kid under them.
But thew are evening shoes.
Oh, are they? Well. don't care
what they are, / guess they'll take
the cake where they are going, day or
night. Well. what do you suppose i
paid for handkerchiefs-silk, Of
course Why. 1 paid So each, and So
for suspenders, and So for a penknife.
We have some jeweiled suspender
attachments at s120-very beautiful.
indeed, said the clerk.
Oh. never mind showing 'em, said
the young man.
He bought a comparatively plain
vest chain, a double one for s45, and
then said he did not think there was
anything else that he wanted except
gloves, and he had priced them and
found the best kid gloves only 50,
though he could pay eighteen if he
wanted sealskin. He jotted down
his purchases on a card, and when he
came to calculate the total he said
that at first he thought it would
reach $500 then s40O, and that now
it was evident that by the time
he had spent week il town at So
day and paid his fare back to his home
$3.50 would be about the full extent
he would have expended. Tbs was
his list