The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27


Partisan regard it as an evolution of
genius, just as they are perfectly salts
fed with lifts that move at snails pace
and think 1t not in the least queer that
the facteur or delivery man who brings
a hat from a milliner or gown from the
modiste wishes a pourboire of at least 0
cents for his effort He will stand at the
top of the stairs a quaint rack strung
with bonnet boxes strapped to his back.
and fight for his pourboir like good
fellow. He does not like the salaried de-
liveryman from abe American department
store ride around inside Il big wagon,
but tolls all over Paris on foot and the
biggest part of his pay is the fee he ex-
poets from the ladies whose things he
brings home and who as Americans he
regards as his legitimate prey.
This is a most annoying species Of beg
gary, yet there are compensationS, such
for example as the willingness with which
a tradesman will send home hats or gowns
for approval. So keen Is the average shop
keeper to win the good will of a custom
er that she will gladly send dozen bon
nets to the hotel or pension for madam
TO try on and think over and in all the
stores of high standing an article THAI has
failed to please will be taken back and
the money refunded One woman this
spring had the interesting experience OF
returning a card case she bought eight
the color and as it had lain unused in its
tissue paper and box all the while. she
dared ask an exchange at the shop where
1t had been purchased. In ten minutes
the bookkeeper rad ordered II back into
the stock and paid out TO her the amount
to a penny of its original price and the
woman went away feeling that her trip
to Paris was worth that experience alone.
Paris Prices Are High.
Cheap shopping to large class OF Amer
lean women is after all one OF the prime
reasons of their visit to Paris, and 1t is
the belief of many who now 90 abroad on
bargains bent that the day of economical
shopping in the French capital has pass
ed away, So 1t has to a large extent and
the great dressmakers and milliners of
the Rue de la Pix, Rue Royale, Boulevard
Haussmann, etc, whose fame is world
wide and whose models set the fashions,
undersell but by few dollars their fellow
tradesmen on the other side Of the AT
lantic. They can count on the patronage
of the enormously rich American and
Englishwoman, the European royalties
and the smart extravagant actresses, and
their bargain days are few and far be-
tween and while the fashionable shopping
season is on it is just as cheap TO buy a
wardrobe in America Long headed and
patient French women of small means
have taught the moderately well to do
American that the science of economical
shopping lies in waiting until that season
is over until June Is. At that date the
sales begin and then even the most i'm
portant creators Of delicate connections
a a tremendous sacrifice clean out their
dress closets, hat cupboards, etc, of every
last left over article
There are thrifty women in Paris
whose business is to be in first when the
sales begin and buy up all the best bar
gains offered. Dresses that I'm May would
sell for $l25 they secure for $40 and then
in their own little shops. chiefly situated
along the Rue de Province, they cater to
large number Of customers TO whom
they sell at a profit of from So to So ON
every gown
Every season In Paris there are sales
OF the wardrobes and brc-a-b rac OF great
ladies and bankrupt actresses closely at
tended by these bargain vendors Furs.
laces, Jewelry, exquisitely fine underwear,
napery and toilet articles in ivory and
silver Is what they buy up and sell again
In their remarkable shops, where even IL
nothing is bought a delightful hour may
be spent examining the curlos and often
valuable collections there brought together
and filling the small dusky room with ar
tistic disorder.
In such places and in the little Of the
way streets Of old Paris. downright cheap
shopping can be done, but as a general