Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-05
WOMAN GOES SHOPPING.
Acquires FOrty-Two Samples.
Boston Herald.


How does q woman go shopping?
If the writer had been asked this ques-
ton two or three days ago he would
have said:
''She goes right into a store, purchases
what she wants, and then goes home. -
He has looked into the matter and
changed his mind. No, woman does
not go shopping like a man. When a
man starts out to buy something he gen
orally knows pretty nearly what he wants
and he buys it. But with a woman it is
different. She doesn't know what she
wants when she starts out. If she did
she wouldn' t start. She would wait
until come other day and start without
any special object IN view. She would
buy something or other before she came
back, even if it was only glass of ice
cream soda.
But the ordinary every day woman
who goes shopping starts off early in the
morning, and makes up her mind that
she is going to have a large sized picnic.
S he hurres the breakfast and does the
usual morning cleaning up in just about
ten minutes. She hasn't got time to
indulge in breakfast herself, but will
probably bolt hot cup of coffee.
With a small handbag containing her
pocketbook and few other things, she
salltes forth. She doesn't go into any
particular store right away. She looks
about first and sees what is going on,
and what is being displayed. She sees
great many things she would like to buy
but her pocketbOok isn { fat enough, so
she postpones the purchase.
Perhaps it s u O'Clock when she ar
rives at the dress goods counter of the
big establishment. She wants to match
an impossible color. She hasn t got the
sample with her, but she describes the
color to the clerk. He viii show her all
the goods in the department., and she
will take a sample of each.
What for?
she may mean to make future puT-
chase, but It very unlikely. All those
samples will find their way into her crazy
quilt by and by. The poor clerk is tired
and disgusted, but forgets his sorrow
when he begins Irritation with the girl
on the opposite counter. He. forgets
that< she is woman, and goes buying
dress goods somewhere else. II he had
his way he wouldn It allow q male Gus
TONER to buy q thing from her. The
clerk grows tender hearted; the woman
goes upstairs. Both are cOntented and
happy.
She tries on cloaks upstairs. She tries
on everything within u radius of 100
yards. Fur-lined cloaks, ulsters, all
sorts of garments, and all sorts of styles
go on one by one. Some are too big,
others too small, some too cheap, others
too dear. She tries on all the cloaks in
the department, aud viii send across the
street TO try on all they We got in another
store If some one viii go for her. She
doesn t buy cloak, or an ulster, or a
garment. She only tried them on to see
how they felt Then she goes with her
newly purchased bonnet frame into an
other department. She looks at hosiery
gloves, scarfs for her husband, unlaun-
dered shirts for the same party, linen
goods, crocilery ware, table cloths, nap
kins, shoes, and about everything else i'll
the store.
She arrived home about G:30 O'Clock.
Her husband has been home about half
an hour. He is tired and hungry. So is
she. The fire is ont, there is nothing to
eat, and the husband gets mad. She
dOesn t. She says that he s Q brute and
doesn t want her to have "a good time at
all. Then she shows him the the result
of the days tour among big estab
lishments. Here is the inventory of
the stock: One bonnet, worth %
cents; oue-half yard of dress goods,
cost 80 cents. (''What do you
want that for? he asks. She doesn t