The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-07-14
only a Remnant.


! away amidst the luxuriant disorder of q
lady's shopping bag. A slender slice of
shimmering silk in close companionship
with a dainty pOcket-handkerchief, a
button-hook, q very rich pOrtemonnaie
with very poor interior, ten or twenty
wrinkled hair-pins, three car-tickets, q
recipe or two, a card case. and a mis-
cellaneOus assortment OF caramels, gum
drops, and dreamy, complex atmos.
phere of patchOuly and hamamelis.
Only remnant.
But remnant with history, a rem.
nant with future full of romantic pos
sibilities.
That remnant was 1DlyribuS uQuDa:
that is TO say, one of many which were
TO find temporary accommodation in
that shopping-bag; many which were
10 be got by means similar TO those which
secured this.
But our business at present is not with
them, but with this one only; this soli-
tary remnant; this silken hermit.
On the morning of the day which found
this remnant in Mrs. Shoppington s
shopping Mrs. S. started out bright
and early, arrayed in her best attire and
her most insinuating smile. This was
sufficient indication that she was bent
on a day of pleasure. tO-wit, she was GO
ing a-shOpping.
Following the 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 the woman on n shop
| ping tour. There is this difference be-
| tween the sexes, man buys, woman
| shops.
Mrs. Shoppington, her shopping-bag
and its contents, including the remnant,
the hero of our story, had just emerged
| from the establishment of SatinSheen &
Grosgrain's. Mrs. ShoppingtOn had
been successful in that establishment.
She had made goodly begin
ming, and Mrs. ShoppingtOn was happy.
She had told the clerk that she wished
| to look at some OF his silk. She was
better than her word. She looked at all
the accommodating clerk 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 10 buy. In
deed she had not thought of visiting any
store, being in a great hurry 10 visit
relative in the suburbs: but Just as she
was about passing the door she remem-
bered that she wished 10 look at some
silks, and she couldn't resist the temp
tation TO step in for Just moment. She
was very sorry she had put him 10 such
trouble, but would the clerk give pat
tern of that lovely silk upon which her
ewes fingered so admiringly.
The clerk would, and lie did. and
hence the remnant in Mrs. Shopping
ton S shopping-bag, and hence her hap
py countenance.
But Mrs. ShoppingtOn 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 Joy
over the remnant in her shopping
| bag.
For she entered the dry-gooGs house
of Hamburg q Co, few doors away,
and went instinctively TO the silk coun-
| ter. She was shown several invoices of
the glossy fabric, and then, as in Satin
sheen & Grosgrain's, she informed the
patient clerk that she did not intend to
| purchase. A friend asked her TO look at
some silks for her and get a few pat
terms Mrs. Shoppington did not men
| ton who this friend was. Possibly she
referred to that relative in the suburbs.
The clerk begged her pardon. but it
was contrary to rules to give patterns.
Mrs. ShOppington was very sorry. Her
friend would be so disappointed. Then
she looked at the silk again, and re-
marked that that would just suit her
| friend, she was sure. Now, couldn't
the clerk break the rule for this once?
She wouldn't ask such thing for her
sells. But her friend
The clerk relented and cut off a snip:
and having done this, it was the easiest
thing in the 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 &c
the piece which suited Mrs. Shopping
| tons eve.
Only a remnant.
But solitary remnant no longer. IL
now had several companions, as rich
and luStrous As itself.
Mrs. ShoppingtOn' step was lighter
and her smile sweeter than when we
first saw her emerging from Satinsheen
d GroSgrain's. Notwithstanding she then
looked supremacy happy.
Mrs. Shoppington's shopping tour
! promised TO be successful one. And
it was eminently successful. 1t is I'M
necessary to follow her from store to
store, or TO relate the sweet little subter-
fuges through which she possessed her
self of silken patterns of every hue snd
in goodly number.
Only a remnant.
Wien she arrived home. after her day
of pleasure, she opened her shopping
bag, and. with face aglow with joy. dis
played to the admiring family the result
of her operations.
/ THERE she exclaimed. TRIUMPH