The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-29

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building the shopper can buy ANYTHING
and everything,-a pick-axe or a tooth.
pick; bicycle or thimble; a live mon.
key or a dead lamb.
She can shop all morning, take lunch
in the restaurant aud afterwards enjoy a
siesta on luxurious couch in the parlor,
or sitting in one OF the balconies she can
gaze at the "swift flowing fountain" in
the center OF the great main floor, and
fancy herself once more at the world :
fair il she possesses a particularly vivid
imagination for the center OF the ioun-
tain is representation of the colossal
statue of the Republic in that never-to-
be-forgotten Court of Honor.
firing OF this the fair shopper can wan
der about upstairs listening TO the sweet
strains OF a seli-playing piano, or amuse
herself in the animal room watching the
antics OF the little marmosets white at
the same time she is charmed by food
of melody poured forth from the golden
throats OF numerous Gagged songsters.
Then she might 20 to the reception
room, and, on paper furnished by the
firm, write that long delayed letter.
Should she wish 20 purchase a money
order or send a telegram she will find the
postoiice ana the telegraph office on the
main floor. Do her hands need attention
or does ONE one step on her pet corn
rendering immediate relief necessary?
A manicure or chiropodist is right at
| hand. Does that troublesome tooth
unaccountably begin to ache? Areassur-
ing sign conironts her: Take the ele-
vator to our dental parlors." Should a
sudden desire possess her to send Charles
Augustus acounterfeit presentment Of her
sweet self, the same elevator will take her
to the photograph gallery. Ia fact there
is but one thing lacking to draw a crowd
and that is vaudeville show. No doubt
that will be the next attraction, as, il all
reports are true, it Is already one of the
allurements OF Newark, New Jersey,
dry goods house.
Just now this enterprising firm from
the Windy City is having what it is
pleased to term Challenge Sale,' and
of course its competitors of the same
standing have fling at it in their adver-
tisements. One house holds forth in the
following rather amusing style:
oh, Aeolus! oh, Aeolus!
From out thy brass surrounded isle
Hast naught but wind TO give u.s."
From the vivid imagination of the
Windy West cometh characteristic
blow, a yeritable cyclone of challenge
hash! Meat and dry goods, beef ana
laces, chops and dress goods, bicycles and
sugar, cloaks and mOlasses, BARRIERS and
candy, druggist sundries and all the thou
sand cures, including pedicures, for all
the thousand ills that flesh Is heir to,
with legal advice, banking facilities, den
tai parlors, tin pans and kettels thrown
in, with fishing rods for gudgeons. The !
millennium has come at last! Aud all may !
now partake of this most glorious feast. |
Belshazzar hide thymut diminished head |
Western Hash is now the proper spread. |
And now to dry goods here we are few |
offerings, ETC.. etc,
Speaking OF stores the Especial Sale
has become an establishment among our
merchants. We had become quite ac-
customed to them in the dry goods line
and it seemed a little odd at first to find
especial sales" OF meat or OF butter. but
even those have lost their novelty. And
now this peculiar craze has invaded even
the theatrical world. The was "spec-
iaI sale" matinee in n Brooklyn theatre
the other day, and it is safe to say many
women were there who were never inside
a theatre before, because, you see, there
was reduction in the price of seats and
therefore bargain.
Ii you have ever been in crush around
a bargain counter and have been fortu-
nate enough to come out OF it With all
your clothes intact, to say nothing Of
your life, you will vow never to be so
foolish again for the sake of few pen
mes, and you will feel rather ashamed o.
your sex. / was admiring, one day, an
article friend was wearing; eyes," she
said, 81 bought it at special sale and
it was great bargain, but it was az
much as ones life was worth to get near
the counter"
This is scarcely an exaggeration.
witnessed an exhibition once at one of
these sales that could only be character
lied as disgraceiul. The crush was so
great that barrier, in the shape OF a
long wooden bar, had to be put up, and
two men were placed in charge whose
duty it was to let part OF the crowd into
that particular department at one time.
Some OF the women lodged under the
bar in spite OF the circumstances of
the men, and finally the waiting bar
gain hunters, becoming impatient, broke
down the barrier completely. The men
in charge could do nothing; they were
simply carried along in the crush, and |
turned away blushing for my sex. This