St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-29
ST. PAUL SHOPPING.
a Few Words on the Art for the
Holidays.

"A n CIV w OfuS Oh OiG AFI IOT CuC
Holidays.
Now that the holiday season is at
hand and people who are fond of giving
presents to their friends, as who is not,
must shop, few words of advice on the
subject will surely not be amiSs. The
reason why most women dread shop
ping so much is that they take it in
such allopathic doses. If one were to
study the matter a little, and try to
systematlSe the work little, there
would not be so much head-splitting,
back-breaking, hard work in it as there
now is. It's folly to go down town with
list as long as your arm and rush
about buying for the whole family in
one afternoon, expecting to get any
pleasure ont of the matter. You will
feel just how tired you were every time
you see one of the articles you buy in that
way, and ten chances to one, you feel
mad both at the gift and the recipient:
at the gift because it is something you
did not want, or gave more for than you
intended, OF you don't like it under any
circumstances. AT the recipient for
being in the world. and SO making a
unit in the crowd whose existence made
that day of terror possibility to you.
Take the advice of an old woman, and
remember the truth of that trite old
saying, There's luck in leisure"
| never was so left to myself" as
my grandmother used to say, as to de-
vote one whole day to shopping but once
in my life, and that was day in June.
'when, if ever, comes perfect days."
allowed myself to be beguied by three
Jolly cousins into conserving to go to
st. LOUIS for a days shopping. They
were all old hands at the business,
so OF course | left the details
all in their hands. We took
morning, | mean, and lovely morning
it was, but had sneaKing feeling that
was mundane enough to prefer an hours
more sleep and breakfast rather than
the long ride to the city, however lovely
the day. OF course, we got to town long
before the stores were ready for bust
ness. but that is ali the BETTER" said
my guides. 1t will give US time to get
breakfast at the New England kitchen.
So to that much-talked-of place of re-
past we hurried. New England is all
right in its place as the cradle of liberty,
but Kentucky cooking is good enough
for me: that is, If that breakfast was
reasonable sample.
After breakfast we sailed forth, and
such day as we spent. We priced
jewels and rare pottery at Jaccard's,
lovely stuffs from foreign looms at
Barrs, summer dresses at Crawford's,
and French millinery at Nine. Lang's,
and through the day the four of
us must have spent as much as
$40; but the experience L got
was cheap at that price. for Iswore, that
is. in ladylike way. by the cat-headed
goddess of Egypt, that there would be
wings on the green" in our neighbour
hood if any one dared to ask me to go
shopping all day again.
So, my dears. you see l speak as one
having had experience. and beg of you
to do your Christmas shopping OH the
inStallment plan. Then every gift will
be just what you want, and those on
whom the gifts are bestowed will be all
| the dearer for the reason that you are
not too tired to enter into their pleas
ure, or that you have made some little
sacrifice for them. It's as true of ones
| friends as it is of the church-that the
moro one does for them the better one
| loves them. AUNT POLLY.