Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-06-09
Sunday. June q, 1889.
BARGAIN DAY.
Why the Lady Failed To Match Her Nap
kins aud Dress Goods.

Why the Lady Failed To Match Her Nap
kins and Dress Goods
Bargain day" is productive Of all
sorts OF annoyances. In a large store
the bargains are confined 10 only a
few Of the departments. and the pur-
chaser who does not secure all she
wants of a thing, deciding to come at
another time and get more if she needs
it. generally gets left. To illustrate:
A lady bought a half dozen napkins at
a bargain. She concluded a few days
after that they were quite pretty,
aud as six would be scarcely enough
10 go round for company" she
would get as many Back she
goes 10 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 rufling the tenn
per Of the clerks and working her
self into a mild fury the fact finally
comes 10 the surface that she made
her purchase on bargain day" Out
she LOUNGES. determined Il wait for
another bargain day, aud she daily
watches the advertising columns Of
the papers for bargain day at this par
lcular store. IL appears on the next
Friday or Monday, and.without stop
ping 10 observe that the department
In which she is 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 TO her disgust that there
are no bargains at that counter that
day. She expresses her disgust, too,
and lowers at the poorclerks Just us if 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, and then goes
home with the satisfaction that If she
didn't get the napkins, she at least got
a bargain in a dress. Next bargain
day she appears al the store again,
this time 10 get a couple more yards Of
that dress | got here last week" she
saystothe young lady behind thecoun-
ter, and really thinks it objectionable
Ignorance OH the part Of the girl hat
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 fort" query, She pro-
duces a 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, she says.
ut is entirely out Of stock, replies
the girl.
"But ! must have it, she says, with
some irmness.
She is again told that il is not IN
stock. Then she makes a straight dive
for a floor walker, and lays her COM
plant before him. The young lady
who was so 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 il in a few
days, But she is not satisfied. She
wanders away, and tells a cash boy
she wants TO see the manager. The
boy goes for the manager. In a mo-
ment he returns with the very man
she made complaint TO. She looks at
him, xcu herself, and goes back TO
the napkin department. Napkins are
still high, and she goes home mad,
and declares she will not patronize
such a house a%gain-never.
A few days more roll around and
she makes up her mind she will go
and pay the regular price for a half
dozen more napkins TO complete her
set But her determination TO get a
bargain has blocked her. Those par.
ticular napkins are all g~one-'just
sold the last Of them this morning"
the clerk says 10 her, and expresses
great sorrow at her disappointment.
To say that she is now furious would
hardly express il. 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