Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-07-19
BARGAIN DAY.
why the Lady Failed to Match Her Nap
kins and Dress Goods.

why the Lady Failed to Match Her Nap
kiDs and Dress Goods.
Bargain day" is productive of all
sorts of annoyances In large store
the bargains are confined to only a
few Of the departments, and the pur-
chaser who does not secure all she
wants OF thing, deciding to come at
another time and get more ii she needs
it, generally gets left. To illustrate;
A lady bought a half dozen napkins at
bargain She concluded few days
after that they were quite pretty,
and as six would be scarcely enough
10 go round for Company, she
would get as many more. Back she
goes TO The store. but when she comes
TO buy them she finds the price Is
marked up fifteen or twenty-five
cents above what she paid. She
protests, and after rufiIing the tenn
per of tho clerks and working her
self into mild fury the fact finally
comes 10 the surface that she made
her purchase on bargain day" Out
she ilounces, determined TO wait for
another bargain day, and she daily
watches the advertising columns OF
the papers for bargain day al this par
ticuiar store. II appears on the next
Friday or Monday, and without stop
ping 10 observe that the department
In which she Ia interested Is not includ.
ed in the bargain sales. away she goes,
pulling and blowing, her whole soul
bent on getting another half dozen OF
those napkins. Arrived at the store,
she learns 10 her disgust that there
are no bargains at that counter that
day. She expresses her disgust, too,
and lowers at the poor clerks just as II il
were all their fault
Having had her say there, she goes
into the dress goods department and
buys, say, eight yards Of a peculiar
shade Of blue goods, aud then goes
home with tho satisfaction that, II she
didn't get the napkins, she at least got
a bargain in a dress. Next bargain
day she appears at the store again,
this time 10 get a couple more yards Of
that dress got here last week." she
saysto the young lady behind theco
ter, and really thinks IL objectionable
ignorance on the part Of the girl that
she does not only not remember her,
but also the particular piece Of goods
from which she bought her dress.
With "a What do they keep such
people in stores for2' query, she pro-
duces sample of the goods. The
young woman examines the sample
and informs her that that particular
goods is all gone.
well, but want that and nothing
else, p" she saws
1T is entirely out of stock" replies
the girl
But ! must have ii, she says, with
some firmness
She is again told that IL Is not IN
stock. Then she makes straight dive
for floor walker, and lays her com
plant before him The young lady
who was 50 discourteous % as to not
sell her what was not IN stock is called
up. She explains, and then the wo
man is informed that they will prob
ably have some more Of it IN few
days. But she is not satisfied. She
wanders away, and tells cash boy
she wants TO see the manager. The
boy goes for the manager In mo
ment he returns with tho very man
%" hie'eN ''hit'iaAlft W. t2itt lpphS At
him, excuses herself, and goes back To
the napklu department Napkins are
still high, and she goes home mad,
and declares she will not patronize
such a house again never.
A few days moro roll around and
she makes up her mind she will go
and pay tho regular price for half
dozen moro napkins 10 complete her
set But her determination to get a
bargain has blocked her. Those par.
ticnlar napkins are all gone--"just
sold tho last Of them this morning."
tho clerk says TO her, and expresses
great sorrow at her disappointment.
To say that she is now furious would
hardly express IT, She deliberately
makes a show of herself and then
founces out, with the inward salts
faction Of having told them what she
thought Of the whole lot. New York
Star