Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1890-01-09
=7HE LOVE FOR PASSIONS,
rT GETS WOMEN INTO BAD PREDlCA-
MENTs SOMETIMES

Auction Salcs Are Very Enticing. bot They
tions Of Mrs. Brown and How She Didn't
Get Her Fine Purchases.
The woman who W i'll not waste four hours
Of valuable time and twenty-five cents In car
fare to swell the crowd at the bargain coun
ter Of dry goods store to save four cents a
yard in a purchase Of five yards of useless
trimming Is feminine freak we'll worth the
attention Of any enterprising museum man
ager.
This love Of bargains IL not confined to dry
goods stores alone. 1t finds its chief graft
fcetion in auction rooms. There are auc
tions and auctions
THE AUCTION ROOMS.
The crowded auction ROOMS arc those which
advertise every day household furniture,
There is the e,lterprisug boarding house
keeper who wants to get hold Of cheap fold
ing bed, side by side with the newly married
wife who would like to get holp of some ineS
pensive articles of furniture to I'll her rather
empty fiat. The poorly dressed woman with
tho pale faced baby on her arms wants some
pans and kettles for her Kitchen and tho pro
fessional shopper and sightseer docs not
know herself what she wants
A few days ago story came to the knowl-
edge of News reporter that bears out the
observations 1t wa. about Mrs. Brown
who lived in an uptown fiat. She read the
advertisement OF a large auction sale in a
street OFF tho Bowcry She had never been
to any of these sales but her friends had told
her such tales of the many useful articles
that can be bought there for less than half
their value that she felt bent on trying tho
experiment for herself. BY strict economy
sho had saved $50 from her weekly allow
ances, and that money should buy two sets Of
curtains They were advertised for less than
one-fourth Of their real value and Mrs.
Brown wanted curtains very badly. Hers
bad been washed and tlhrned SO often that
they refused to hold ont any longer. So one
fine morning Mrs Brown set out for the nuc-
ton sale, a little timid but full of anticipa
ton.
Tho room was SO crowded that she could
not examine any OF the articles for sale and
hardly could she collect her thoughts, The
humming Of the hundreds of voices, the shrill
calls Of the auctioneer and the answers OF tho
bidders bewildered her thoroughly. But hho
was a smart woman aud able to tako care Of
herself The curtains hal not hcon sold yet
and would not be for solue time to come, but
there was desli--such q beautiful, old fash
ionad one, Just ono Of those that are all the
rage now. Her husband had wished for q
good, big desk With extension and drawers
for ever so long, and next week was his birth
lav. Such chance would never occur
again desk worth from SO to 800, Mrs,
Brown could not resist and after several ef'
forts tho desk was hers for 50
She would not 20 home yet, she just began
to feel interested in the thing when folding
bcd was brought How much more room
would there I've in their little sleeping room
II, instead of the big standing betlstead, she
would buy this beautiful folding bed. The
room would look quite different, and any
how everybody had folding beds nowadays,
so!ilcluiz"l Mrs. Brown, and looked with
longing eyes toward the envied object.
why don't you bidi' asked q woman be-
side her.
II am sorry cannot, l have not money
enough with me-" replied Mrs. Brown, dole
fully.
'If it Is only that they will give credi. rs
long as you like, and if they do not, will
take the folding bed Off your hands want
it any how and do not care for bidding my
self"