The Dickinson press., 1889-06-15
WOMEN AFTER BARGAINS.
HOW THEY FALL AN EASY PREY
TO SHREWD DEALERS.

HOW THEY FALL AN EASY PREY
TO SHREWD DEALERS.
Buying Articles Whose Quality They Be-
lieve Is Regulated by the Selling Price.
Instances of Their Expensive Ability to
Judge First Glass Goods.
Yes, hunting bargains is part of woman's
life Nor is it essential that tho word "bar-
gains" in this connection should apply strictly
TO shopping. Principally, if not primarily,
she desires bargain in n husband-and who
can blanc hcra-just as much as she does in a
dress; and If, percSance, n week should pass
over her head without her being able to re-
cord i'll her diary bargain of some sort, she
would feel that she had lived in vain
Vi course, no woman ever pays an ordinary
price for anything, be she rich or poor. Mer-
chants understand women's weaknesses in
this respect, and while ono 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 deludo herself, but certainly the masses do
SO, and no ono knows this better than woman
herself. a striking exempliiication of this
fact may be witnessed any day in a millinery
store, where, as a rule, woman deals with
woman. Tho woman who can afford it will
pay S25 for bonnet which, in all reason,
she SHOULD havo secured for $40 or sl2; but
if the saleswoman were to ask her the latter
figures she would turn up her nose and walk
away.
Tho manager of we'll known millinery
store relates typical incident One of his
best patrons desired new spring bonnet,
and in selecting tho trimmings was shown
some point d'csprit lace.
"How much is this yard?" she asked
holding up sample which she had been cx-
aminins for some time
1.-TWO dollars" was tho reply
~ want something better" she said, giving
tho article Il careless toss to one side.
The lady in waiting took ono furtive look
at her only, but that was sufficient to obtain
an accurate mental photograph. Bringing
out another box, containing precisely tho
Same article and pattern, she said
II SEQ you like that pattern. Here is point
dcsprit, exactly like that, but it is the real
article"
How much is thatl" asked the purchaser,
smiling.
This is $40 II yard" was the reply.
"1'll take that" she said, without further
parlcy
And shc did take it, and paid $40 n yard
Tor 1t i'll preference to securing it at 81 a
yard.
II want somo good all wool dress flannel"
said Il young lady in dryooods store tho
other day.
An article was shown her. 1t was lust
what sho wanted.
How much is that!" she asked.
"Forty- nine ccnts.n
Sho turned up her nose.
Two got tho same article for sixty cents"
said tho proprietor, and he carefully took
exactly like tho first. He carefully busted olP
tho counter, and laying the flannel down ten
derby, said: ~ am sure you will like this; l
SEQ you arc q judge of good article"
There, now," sho said, almost before sho
had time to feel of its texture, IL like that.
You say this is sixty cents?"
Sixty cents"
"Well, you can give mo twelve yards of it,"
Hero is a purchaser in decorative art
store. Sho has II very slight knowledge Of
decorative art, and would as readily yay 500
for fifty cent vase as fifty cents for SlOO
one, but she affects to know all about it. She
asks for royal Worcester vase. Ono is
shown to her-a little thing for S25 She
wants something better" sho says. Tho
clerk smilcs and produces a Sl00 vase.
Haven't you got anything elscl' shc asks.
Certainly"
A 5000 vase comes out. She looks ut it q
long time, wants to know if it's real, and
finally remarks shc doesn't like tho work.
Then tho clerk takes another penetrating look
at her, and hauls down Venetian or Sat-
sllnia article worth about S25 This is beau
"'ul, and catches hcr eye, and her face lights
up.
Now, there, says ,ths clerk, determined to
get rid of her, "s the real royal W orc,stel."
And what's the price of that'' she asks
II sec you are u judge Of good nrtcle,'
says the clerk, and I'll make that to you
cheap and then, pretending to carefully cx-
amino tho cost price, says: ''l'll mako that to
you for 500"
OF course she takes it, and goes of congrat-
ulatinS herself that sho has gotten.a bargain
in royal Worcester
IN HER POCKET ALL THE TINE.
But there Is tho suspicious woman, and of
ull creatures on earth sho is tho most uggra.
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 lie, in his failure to understand
her, honestly recommends, and he turns away
with tho mental determination to never again
try to give woman the worth of her money.
10 tho experienced salesman, however, this
creature is ono of tho most familiar of pur-
chascrs and ho generally succeeds in selling
to her exactly the thing tho house has been
trying TO get rid Of for months by carelessly
showing it TO her and then praising some
thing elso. But how many women go into
store without having tho faintcst idea OF
wha: they want! Hero is familiar conver-
sation:
81 want to see some dress trimming"
what kind, plcase.7
ooh, don't know. Show me something,
Seventeen kinds of trimming are finally
piled upon tho 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.
"Oh, yes" she says, "of course. want it
like this" and, after all tho trouble she has
occasioned the saleswoman, she draws sam
pie Of tho very thing she wants from her reti-
culc, and moment later she has found what
she wants. But She came there 10 feast her
eyes, and she got The overworked girl behind
the counter to spend fifteen or twenty min
utes gratifying her curiosity.-New Yorl;
Star.
An Important Meeting.
May 5, 1850, was tho date of one of the most
important events in modern history, the
meeting of the states-general of France, which
was the commencement of the French revo-
lutiOu The 1aputiaS ,yara iptr trofI,,caI accord.