The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-15
A DAYS SHOPPING.
THERE Is NOT MUCH TO SHOW, BUT
THE WOMAN ENJOYS TT.

Pats One Last -Prayer-Saved from u
Drunkard's G~rave-Shoes in Parti
Colors-Where Dyes Come from.
How does a woman go shopping?
If the writer had been asked this
question two or three days ago, he
would have said
'She goes right into a store, pur-
chases what she wants, and then goes
home.n
He has looked into the matter ana
changed his mind. No, a woman
doesn't go shopping like a man When
a man starts out to buy something, he
generally knows pretty nearly what
he wants and 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 some other day,
and start without any special opJect
in view. She would buy something
or other before she came back, even II
it was only a glass OF ice-cream q
But the ordinary every day woman
who goes shopping starts oil early IN
the morning, and makes up her mind
that she is going to have a large slzed
picnic. She hurries the breakfast and
does the usual morning cleaning up
in just about ten minutes. She hasn't
got time to indulge in breakfast her
self, but will probably bolt a hot cup
of coffee.
With a small bag containing her
pocket book and a few other things,
she sallies forth. She doesn't go into
any particular store right away. She
looks about first and sees just what IS
going on, and what is being displayed.
She sees a great many things
would like to buy, but her pocket
book isn't fat enough, so h post
pones the purchase.
Perhaps it is twelve O'Clock when
she arrives 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 will show her all the goods in the
department and she will take asample
of each.
What for?
She may mean to make a future
purchase, but it is very unlikely. All
those samples will find their way into
her crazy quilt by and by. The poor
clerk is tired and Disguised, but for
gets his sorrow a moment later when
he begins a Irritation with a pretty
girl at the opposite counter. He for
gets that she is q woman, and goes
buying dress goods somewhere else.
If he had his way he would not allow
a male customer to buy a thing from
her. The clerk grows tender hearted,
the woman goes upstairs. Both are
eontented and happy.
She tries on cloaks upstairs. she
tries on everything within a radius
of one hundred yards. Fur lined
cloaks, listers, all sorts of garments,
and all sorts of styles go on one by
me-. Some are too big; others too
small; some too cheap, others too dear.
She tries on on all the cloaks in the
department, and will send across the
street to try on all they've got in an
other store if someone will go for her.
She doesn't buy a cloak or an ulster,
or a garment. She only tried them
on to see how they felt. Then she
goes with her newly purchased bon
net frame into another department.
She looks at hosiery, gloves, scarf for
her husband, unlaundried shirts for
the same party, linen goods, crockery
ware, table cloths, napkins, shoes,
and about everything else in the store.
She arrives at home about half-past
six o'clock. Her husband had been
home about half an hour. He is tired
and hungry. So is she. The fire is
out, there is nothing to eat, and the
husband gets mad. She doesn't. She
saws he is a brute, and doesn't want
her to have a good time at all. Then
she shows him the result of the DAYS
tour among the big establishments.
Here is the inventory of the stock.
One bonnet, worth twenty-five cents;
n half-yard of dress goods, costs
fifty cents (''what do you want it for
he asks?' She doesn't know and
doesn't care; she's got it). One Gus
pidor, twenty-five cents. She has six
already. One flaming red scarf for
John, cost fifty cents. He almost
faints when he sees it. One unlaun-
dried shirt, cost thirty-seven,cents, for
John again. John is ready to die, but
he says it's very nice. He will give it
away ON Christmas, together with the
scarf, to a man he doesn't like. Then
she displays forty-two different sam
pies of dress goods.-Bostora Herald.
UTs. Uz.A