Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1899-05-20
THE SHOP WINDOWS.
One AMONG the Manifold Attractions
of Great City aud n Delight
To Strangers.

| 'Surcly one unfailing delight OF
!, rrcat city" said a stranger, must b.
its windows. | should think you woull
never get tired of looking at them
The stranger was right; they are {
lelight and people never do tire G
them. and the cfiy dweller pauses tC
lcok at the novel and varied and beau
tiful displays with even greater frank
ness than the visitor does, He wants Il
see these things, and he has M hesita.
ton about stopping TO look at them;
not the slightest fear that anybody will
think him gawky. These things are
put into the windows TO be looked at,
to invite attention, and if they interest
him he stops and looks.
Putting out of the question the dis
plays of articles of feminine apparel
and of goods for such use, which es-
pecially attract the attention of wom-
en-, it may be said that, taking one time
with another. many men Iingerin front
Of the sporting goods window, where
guns and fishing rods and that sort of
thing are seen, to sean the things there
displayed and to dream of vacation
times and days when they shall eN-
change work and the crowded, roaring
streets of the city for woods and fields
and splashing brooks. There are
many lovers of nature-people of all
ages, grown-up men as well as children
who stop in front of the bird store
windows TO look at the birds, and they
stand and regard them earnestly: there
is something about the birds that draws
Them; they love to look at them.
There are few windows that attract
observers than those of the pie
turc stores, and your elbow neighbor
may have a better or a poorer coat than
your own, for the pictures draw all
kinds of men, rich and poor, and these
free small picture galleries present
pictures of interest, and the dis
plays are frequently changed.
1t would cost a lot of money to buy
he flowers of which one may enjoy the
sight for nothing by simply looking in
It the windows of the flower shops. He
nay not get the odor of them through
plate glass window, but he can
stand within a foot of the most COR
yeous blossoms and feast his eyes, at
east, upon their beauty; and many peo-
Die do Just this: and it wouldn't follow
hat they We're not able to buy them if
hey wanted TO. Perhaps the greater
lumber of those who stop could not
the costlier ones, anyhow: but they
I'll stop TO look because the flowers are
BEAUTIFUL: and il may be observed that
he specimens that are thus placed in
he window to attract attention for this
rec display are likely to be choice spec
mems. to make the attraction the more
triking. which means that the passer.
" who pauses to look gets not only a
rec view of this thing of beauty, but
he things that he is thus enabled to
ee free are the best of their kind.
There are windows for the young as
veil as for the old; dolls and TOYS and
hat sort of thing: wondrous displays
hat are fascinating to the youthful be.
folder. There are displays of fruit and
+ food in many forms that must graft
y the epicure and delight the eye OF
II: and as for various articles of con.
enicnce and of comfort and luxury.
or all the wants of man. these are to
c seen on every hand. Among articles
t luxury come especially those dis
in the windows of the iewelrv
Establishments, and particularly the
iamonds, which attract attention al
and more than ever at night.
hen they scintilIate so brilliantly UNI
cr artificial light, and when people out
stroll or bent III pleasure have time
stop and look. There is one familiar
of the city's greatest thorough
are in which there may always be seen
t night people looking in at the win.
ow displays there made of flowers,
'uits and diamonds.-N. Y. Sun.