Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-18
Only q Remnant.

| Yes. only bic OF crumpled silk hid
away amidst the luxuriRnt disorder of
,sdy's shopping bag. A slender slice of
shimmering silk in close companionship
with dainty pocket-handke-chief, a
buttou-hOok, very rich portemonnaie
with very poor interior, ten or twenty
wrinkled hair-pins, three car-tickets. a
re ips or two, a card case. and a mis-
| ce!lanoous asso tment o caramels. gum
drops, and a dreamy. complex atmos-
phere of patchouly and hamamelis.
Only remnant.
But a remnant with a history, a rem
| nant with a future full of romantic Dos
siOilities.
That remnant was plIribus unsfna.
that is to say. one of many which were
To lind temporary accommodation in
that shopping-bag; many which were
TO be got by meaus similar 10 those which
sc ured this.
But our business NJ present is not with
them but with this one only; this soil
! tIry remnant; tn silken hermit
On the morning of the day viii h found
this remnant in Mrs. Shoppington' 9
shopping Dag. Mrs. 5. started out bright
and early, arrayed in her best attire and
Ter most insinuating smile. This was
sufficient indication that she was bent
on day OF pleasure. to-wit, she was go
ing shopping.
Following tue injunction of old, she
took nc scrip IN her purse, or none to
speak OF. Money Is the LAST thing thought
OF or needed to- thse woman on n shop
ping tour. There Is this di terence be-
tween the sexes, a man buys, a woman
shops.
Mrs Shoppington. her shopping-bag
ana us contents, including the remnant,
the hero of our story, had lust emerged
from the establishment of Satinsheen &
Grosgrain's- Mrs. Shoppington had
been successful in THAI establishment.
She had made a gcodly begin
ming, and MIS-: ShopPington was happy.
She had told the clerk that she wished
to look at some of Us silk. She was
better than her word She booked at all
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS showed her,
and he showed her the entire stock in
trade. Then she informed him that she
was not ready TO purchase that day.
She had not come prepared to buy. In
deed she had not thought of visiting any
store, being in great hurry to visit
relative in the suburbs; bnt Just as she
was abnIt passing the door she remem-
bered that she wished to look at some
silks, ast she couldn't resist the temp
tation to step in for Just moment. She
was very sorry she had put linn to svch
trouble, but would the clerk give pat
tern of that lovely silk upon which her
eyes fingered so adBliringly.
The clerk would, and he did, and
hence the remnant in Mrs. Shopping
ton shopping-bag, and herre her hap
py countenance.
BW Mrs. ShoppinSson did not hurry
away To the railway station. Possibly
she had forgotten her relative in the
suburbs whilst feasting her eyes upon
those silken temptations or in her ioy
over the remnant In her shopping
bag.
For she entered the dry-goo6s house
of Hamburg X Co., n few doors away.
and went instinctfeely to the silk coun-
ter. She was shown several invoices of
the glossy fabric, and then, as in Satin
sheen IL GroSgrain's, she informed the
patient clerk t at.she did not intend to
purchase. A friend askel her to look at
some silks for her and get few pat
terms. Mrs. ShOppingtOn did not men
ton who this fr emil was. Possibly she
referred to that relative in the suburb.
The clerk beg ed her pardon. but it
was contrary to rules to We patterns.
Mrs. Shoppington was very sorry. Her
friend woull he so disappointed. THEN
she looked At the silk again, and re-
marked That that would Just suit her
Trend. she was sure. Now, couldn't
the clerk break the rule for this uncep
She wouldn't ask such n thing for her
els. But her friend
The clerk relened and cut OF snip;
and having done this, it was the easiest
thing in G world tO induce him to give
patterns of three or four more pieces:
for possibly, you know. her friend
might prefer some enc of the others to
the piece whic1 suited Mrs. Shopping
tons e.e.
Only a remnant.
But solitary remnant no longer. 1t
now had several companions, as rich
and lus:rVIs as itself
Mrs. ShopP ngt ms step was lighter
and her smile swe ter than when we
first saw her emerging from Satinsheen
Il Gro grain 5, notwithstanding she then
looked supremely happy.
Mrs. Shoppingtm's shopping tour
promised to be successful one. And
1t was eminently SUCCESS ul. 1t is I'M
necessary to follow her from store to
store, or to relate the sweet little subter-
.uges through which she possessed her.
self of silken patterns of every hue and
N goodly number.
Only remnant.
Wien she arrived home, after her day
ot pleasure. she opened her shopping
Gag, and. with face aglow with joy. dis
played to the admiring family the result
Of her operations.
''There!' she exclaimed, triumph
antly, I've got enough now. I'm go
ing to work on it tomorrow, and
guess you won't find another one ia
me city that will begin TO compare with
it."
a womans no simpleton, say what thou wilt;
Sne can get without money a silk crazy quilt.
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