Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-01-02
FOLKS WHO Buy DIARIES.


"Diariesl Why, certainly we have. Walk thii
way" and the clerk In one of the leading book
stores started down towards the end Of the store
with q STAR reporter in tow. The alacrity Of
his movements and the quickness of his
response seemed to indicate that he was glad
to hear an inquiry nor this particular line Of
goods. Fearing that this time-honored custom
OF beginning the year by beginning diary was
dying out, THE STAR man inquired:
"Do you sell many diaries nowadays"
"Not great many" was the response, "but
still the demand keeps up, and just about this
time Of the year we sell quite number"
reporter, as he fingered over the handseme eIy
bound little books, which lay on the table
II think that the ladies are our best custo-
business, he added. "Here is one that, think,
will suit YOU"
ADIARY FOR LADIES.
ut was compact little book, bound hand.
somely In flexible leather covers, with the
pages divided, with two days on each page
accounts. Some were still smaller, and the idea
seemed to be to get the books in the smallest
possible shape.
Rather condensed space for ladeies," OBJ
book ..o,.
Iney don't often buy q diary for themselves,
but they very often think that their children
Or brothers or affianced ought to keep one, and
SO ,,,s they get an attractively bound book and
~. "A very nice present to GET" commented the
"Oh, yes" replied the man with smile, "but
then 1t Is always wonder to me that SO many
people think that some On else should keep y
diary. think that nearly everybody will
agree, as general principle, that it s interest
Ing as we'll as useful to keep diary, but when
~ ~ comes TO be personal matter, very few con-
They say that sheol is paved with good inten-
lions, ana have often wondered whether dia-
ries do not enter to q large extent into the COM
PosltlOn OF this internal pavement"
VEST POCKET DIARY.
"Now, there are other kinds which you may
like better said the clerk, suddenly bringing
himself back to the practical question of the
hour. "For instance here is this slim one with
three days on page, which you see is made of
ike ss
KIND OF memorandum book The pages are
all dated, and 1t is very convenient on that
at looks as If It was made for a boy" OBJ
served The STAR man.
BOYS AND GIRLS.
"The boys are the next best customers to the
ladies for our diaries,' said the man. "They
always make up their minds at the beginning
of this impulse they buy the incest kind they
can lind. and on the first day they fill up the
record, and think that the space il very linn
After 2 few days they conclude that it will do
and then they gradually forget to write in it
every, day and the record gets behind,
but you can't persuade a boy to buy thin
diary like that any more than you could get q
girl to buy diary that had anything less than
good big page for each day. A girl can't get
along unless she has a journal: that is if she
does anything in this way at all. A halt dozen
closely compressed lines does not begin to give
scope tor the expression of a girls experience of
one day. She feels more than she acts, and If
space"
perhaps you would like jour- al yourself"
SAID the clerk, making a movement towards
one OF the top shelves.
THE STAR man restrained him and told him
that he had enjoyed looking over his stock of
diaries and was glad to learn that the good old
custom had not completely died out. For him
few weeks and If he then had fully made up
his mind to keep diary. he had quite large
stock on hand purchased in former years
which would fully answer every purpose.