The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19
THE SHOP WINDOWS.
One Among the Manifold Attractions
of n Great City and a Delight
to Strangers.

Surely one unfailing delight of
great city," said a stranger, "must be
its windows. / should think you would
never get tired of looking at them"
The stranger was right; they are a
delight and people never do tire of
them, and the city dweller pauses to.
look at the novel and varied and beau
tiful displays with even greater frank
ness than the visitor does. He wants to.
see these things, and he has no 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 II 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-, 1t may be said that, taking one time
with another, many men Hnger in front
OF the sporting goods window, where
guns and fishing rods and that sort Of
thing are seen, to scan the things there
displayed and TO dream Of vacation
times and days when they shall ex-,
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
more observers than those of the pic
ture stores, and your elbow neighbor
may have better or poorer coat than
your own, Tor the pictures draw all
kinds of men, rich and poor, and these
free small picture galleries present
often pictures of interest, and the dis
plays are frequently changed.
1t would cost lot of money to buy
the flowers of which one may enjoy the
sight for nothing by simply looking In
ut the windows of the flower shops. he
may not get the odor of them through
the plate glass window, but he can
stand within foot of the most gor-
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least, upon their beauty; and many peo-
pie do Just this; and 1t wouldn't follow
that they were not able to buy them IL
they wanted to. Perhaps the greater
number of those Who stop could not
buy the costlier ones, anyhow; but they
all stop to look because the flowers are
beautiful; and 1t may be observed that
the specimens that are thus placed In
the window to attract attention for this
free display are likely to be choice spec
linens, to make the attraction the moro
striking, which means that the passer-
by who pauses to look gets not only
free view Of this thing of beauty, but
the things that he is thus enabled to
see free are the best of their kind.
There are windows for The young as
we'll as for the old; dolls and toys and
that sort of thing; wondrous displays
that are fascinating to the youthful be-
holder. There are displays Of fruit and
of food In many forms that must graft
fy the epicure and delight the eye of
all; and as for various articles of con-
| venience and of comfort and luxury,
for all the wants Of man, these are to
be seen on every hand. Among articles
of luxury come especially those dis
played in the windows of the jewelry
establishments, and particularly the
diamonds, which attract attention al
ways, and more than ever at night,
| when they scintillate so brilliantly un-
der artificial light, and when people out
to stroll or bent on pleasure have time
to stop and look. There is one familiar
stretch of the city's greatest thorough
fare in which there may always be seen
at night people looking in at the win
dow displays there made of flowers,
fruits and diamonds.-N. Y. Sun.