Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-06-14
WOMEN AFTER BARGAINS.
HOW THEY FALL AN EASY PREY
TO SHREWD DEALERS.

Buying Articles Whose Quality They Be-
iieve Is Regulated by the Selling Price.
Instances of Their Expensive Ability to
Judge First Glass Goods.
Yes, hunting bargains is part of womans
life. Nor is it essential that the word 'tbar-
gains'' in this connection should apply strictly
to shopping Principally, if not primarily,
she desires bargain in husband-and who
can blame her?-just as much as she does in a
dress; and if, perchance, a week should pass
over hes head without her being able to re-
cord in her diary bargain of some sort, she
would feel that she had lived in vain.
Of course, no woman ever pays ordinary
price for anything, be she rich or poor. Mer-
chants understand women's weaknesses in
this respect and while one may say they are
cruel to take advantage of them, he can say
with equal truth that they would be cruel
not to humor them. Not every woman strives
to delude herself, ,but certainly the masses do
SO, and no one knows this better than woman
herself striking exemplifcation of this
fact may be witnessed any day in millinery
store, where, as rule, woman deals with
woman The woman who can afford it will
pay $25 for bonnet which, in all reason,
SlO have S6CuT0u lOf .olU OF Oh. DuU
if the saleswoman were to ask her the latter
figures she would turn up her nose and walk
away.
The manager of a well known millinery
store relates typical incident One of his
best patrons desired a new spring bonnet,
and in selecting the trimmings was shown
some point desprit lace.
How much is this yard?' she asked,
| hOl6ipo I'M q cour,la which ba had bnnp ay-
aiming for some time
1.-TWO dollars, was the reply
81 want something better" she said, giving
the article careless toss. to one side.
The lady in waiting took one fultive look
at her only, but that was sufficient to obtain
an accurate mental photograph. Bringing
out another box, containing precisely the
same article and pattern, she said:
Il see you like that pattern. Here is point
desprit, exactly like that, but it is the real
article.n Z:
''How much is that?" asked the purchaser,
smiling
This is $40 yard" was the reply.
''I'll take that she said, without further
parley.
And she did take it. and paid $40 a yard
for it in preference to securing it at 50 a
yard.
Il want somo good all wool dress flannel ~
said young lady in a drygoods store the
other day.
An article was shown her 1t was Just
what she wanted.
"How much is that" she asked
''Forty-nine cents"
Sho turned up her nose
Eve got the same article for sixty cents, -
said the proprietor, and he carefully took
down from the shelf another bolt of flannel
exactly like the first. He carefully busted off
tho counter, and laying the flannel down ten
derby, said: Il am sure you will like this;
sec you are judge Of q good article"
There, now" she said, almost before she
had time to feel of its texture, II like that
You say this is sixty cents?'
Sixty cents"
'Well, you can give me twelve yards of it. -
Here is purchaser in q decorative art
store. She has a very slight knowledge Of
decorative art, and would as readily yay 500
for fifty cent vase fifty cents for 500
one, but she affects to know all about it She
asks for a royal Worcester vase. One is
shown to her-a little thing for s25. She
wants something BETTER" she says The
clerk smiles, and produces S1O0 vase
Haven't you got anything else?' she asks
'sCertainlyn Srrt--' 49,.
A $500 vase comes out. She looks at it a.
long time, wants to know if it's real, and
finally remarks she doesn't like the work.
Then the clerk takes another penetrating look
at her, and hauls down Venetian or Sat
suma article worth about S25. This is beau
tiful, and catches her eye, and her face lights
up.
'Now, there" says the clerk, determined to
ri1 of hon. ttc
Sand what's the price of thatn' she asks.
II see you are q judge of good article, ''
says the clerk, land I'll make that to you.
cheap" and then, pretending to carefully ex-
amino the cost price, says: "l'll make that to.
you for $500"
OF course she takes it, and goes off congrat--
ulating herself that she has gotten bargain
in royal Worcester.
IN HER POCKET ALL THE TIME.
But there is the suspicious woman, and of
all creatures on earth she is the most aggra-
waiting to the inexperienced salesman. She
takes exactly what he doesn't tell her to- and
wouldn't dream of purchasing the honest,
article which he, in his failure to understand
her, honestly recommends, and he turns away
with the mental determination to never again
try to give woman the worth of her money
To the experienced salesman, however this;
creature is one of the most familiar of pur-
chasers, and he generally succeeds in selling.
to her exactly the thing the house has been
trying to get rid of for months by carelessly
showing it to her and then prasing some
thing else But how many women go into a
store without having tho faintest idea OF
what they wantl Here is a familiar CONVEX
sation:
81 want to see some dress trimming"
'''s hat kind, please?
ooh, don't know. Show me something. So
Seventeen kinds of trimming are finally
piled upon the counter.
"Well," says the would be purchaser, ''this
is mono of it exactly what | want. Haven't
you something else?'
She is asked if she can't describe the pat
tern she wants.
sob, yes" she says, 'of course. want it
like this;' and, after all tho trouble she has
occasioned the saleswoman, she draws a sam
pie of the very thing she wants from her reti-
cule and moment later she has found what
she wants. But she came there to feast her
eyes, and she got the overworked girl behind
the counter to spend fifteen OF twenty min
utes gratifying her curiosity.-New York
Star.