The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-06
THE DoINas OF WOMEN FOLK.

! Bargain
mer Girls Frolics on the Beach.
New YORK, Aug. AT o'clock yester-
day afternoon, the hottest hour OF the day,
a woman paused in the front of the big
plate glass windows Of a dry goods house.
Within, on stack of parasos, lay pla-
card. 1t read: midsummer clearing sale"
She looked, visibly hesitated, went in. The
within seized mo to follow her, seeming the
trail of a bargain hunter
Once inside the doors she halted. In front
of her the elevator shaft bore This legend:
| Carpets laid free until Aug. s." To her right
was a long counter decorated thus: Bank
rupt sale; sacrifice prizes; DO not let this
chance escape you. TO her left was another
counter with the invitation: "Choice of
| these trimmed hats 81 80" Farther down
| the store was central bazaar with swing
ing sign: "All bathing suits marked down"
| A vari- coored counter tempted thesummer
| girl: Ribbons at your own price" Sum
| nIer wraps and jackets in lace and jet were
| displayed on figures with explanatory en-
| blems: "AS advertised, 81 49," Over the
| the stairs leading to the basement was let
! tered: "Great sale in dOmesticS to-day"
| Upsta one could see gowns hanging over
the baustrade fairly holding ont their
arms to be taken and crying: Costumes
at half the cost of Importation" Laces
i were Fairly given away" and at the wash
counter prices were "Slaughtered without
mercy" The city goes through such sea-
son twice year.
The woman whom had followed was
slim, 80, bright-eyed. The light of resolu-
ton dawned in her face | had not mistak-
Oh my victim She walked to the elevator.
Here sat a group of women YEARLY flaming
themselves, waiting for a chance to rise.
We rose to the top floor. Here statesmen
were unrolling carpets. Carpets in August.
Nv woman walked unhesitatingly toward
roll Of checked mating, "20 cents, was 43."
She bought enough for two rooms. She
bought also rug at 81 95, marked down
from So 30 mosquito canopy for 81 %,
which she had priced in Jui:e for 81 II and
had gone without when mosquitoes were
thickeSt. waiting for the bargain sales She
inspected re lace curtains, turned her back
on them, wheeled about again and bought
pair which she had previously shifted at,
the change of heart being effected by the
clerks assurance that they were going rid
icutusly low
When she went down by the elevator l
followed 10y the stairs and found her on the
cloak and suit floor Lurking in the back
ground while she ran over a couple of dozen
beach dresses, two years old and going at
81 80 to get rid them, found myself cheek by
jOwl with two other women buying chill
dren'S dresses in embroidered lawn at 81 80
the dress They had no children, it APP
peared, but the things, though tumbled,
were $50 cheap" and they could find some use
for them sometime. My woman meanwhile
had snapped up an unconsldered trife OF n
summer shawl ut 81 IL, was 81 81 the first
of the season. and was now laying in shoes
at the "semi-annual clearing sale of broken
lots" until | took her for a professional pc
destrian Here lost track of her for a
time, but was solaced by the enthusiastic
brio a-brac hunters i'll the art room who
were possessing themselves of the leftovers
in rose jars and pottery jugs at half rates.
1t was on the main floor that | recovered
my original bargain hunter with one hand
on piece of Hamburg edging at cents a
yard. Two other women had hold of the
same piece and something resembling a
squabbe was in progress. The floor walker
was called to settle the quarrel He
bent an anxious gaze on the disputed prop
erty. Then his faced cleared. THAT, la
diesF he asked. There's plenty more of
that pattern. You can all have some and it
is a bargain for the money, now, isn't tr'
IL was very hot and the store, though not
crowded, was too full for comfort in dog
days My woman wrestled with two dozen
Others for a chance to finger laces which
she might have bought fresh and unsoiled,
i'll perfect comfort, with stool to
sit on while she made her choice, all
for cent or two more per yard three or
four weeks ago. Then she did not care for
| them. Now she was lavish as il for
trousseau. When She had done with laces
| she reduced the surplus stock of ribbons by
some % yards. She boughta hat which did
| not suit her complexion for 81 80 because it
was bargain. She bought two marked
| down parsols. She drank some chocolate
| soda and thus refreshed she bought mourn
ing bonnet presumably because 1t was
marked 80, cut from Sl4;' she had no
Grape about her attire. She bought two
amber beaded hairpns and choice assort-
ment of bonnet pins resembling flies These
were bargains. She bought a
last winters pocket-book and leath-
| or bag. She bought tooth brushes
and perfumery. Then she went on II fresh
tack and bought dress pattern of summer
silk, at 40 cents yard, twas ST. She in
dulged herself in blue figured chalh and
grey chambry robe at 81 Is each, were
- l3.n Then she went into the basement
and when / left her, exhausted before had
tired out my victim, she was laying in
store of decorated salt cellars at cents
each. Great are bargains. When tho
| shelves are thinnod out the dealers will got
in fall goods Meanwhile women buy
whether they have any Use for thing or not,
! tumbling over one another in eagcrneSs TO
| lay hands on something which very possibly
! they rejected rs not suitable yesterday
! ForsoOth, to-day it is bargain. If it were
not the dealer might hold it till fall.
An afternoon at Rockaway revealed fresh
possibilities of the summer girl. She was
! idly pouring sand from one hand TO another.
! lying i'll burrow on the beach under the shell
ter of paraso overgrown with ribbons.
! She wore n gown of some soft, thin, silky,
/ white stuff, tied at the waist with yellow
! grdle. OIc either side was a young man in
knickerbockers and blazer A third young
man lay at her feet. The girl was content,
| but the young men were inclined to wish
each that the others were not there. One of
them shipped bunch of ribbons from the
futtering farasol, and chickering's over the
possession OF the trophy assumed the small
animation possible on a lazy August after
noon. Snatching her ribbons from the last
possessor's hand the summer ri pinned
them TO her cap and jumped 10 her feet
"Catching's havings," sue laughed down at
her recumbent admirers aud ran for the
water Tncy were after her in an instant.
| but before they wet their feet in tho edge of
the first wave she was we'll out beyond tho
| line of breakers swimming with a splendid,
vigorous stroke. IL was impossible b. refuse
such n challenge and in they plunged, blazers,
knickerbocEers and all She turned her head
TO look at her pursuers a d the bright ri bons
| nodded them saucy dehauce from her
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