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

forty buyers. have among that number
| only from three to five women.
| BY talking with some of the women buy
ers this week a Post reporter has CLEANED
some very interesting information in re-
gard to the lights and shades of a buyer S
life. II was a surprise to be told that the
buyer is the determining spirit of 'tar-
gain counter sales. and that the custom
of holding marked down" sales is quite
as much a device of the buyer for get ing
rid of surplus stock as il is trade catcher.
Miss Ryder, buyer of dress trimmings
in one OF the largest down town depart
ment stores, says that as her department.
is subject to the caprices Of fashion, there
is a marked difference in the profits de-
rived from IL In different years. This
season, for instance" she says, our sales
have been comparatively small. The de-
partment carries line Of buttons all KINDS
of fancy braids and passementeries.
buckles, pearl land bead trimmings, WOOL
braids etc. But fashion this season de-
clared for Stitching and tucks. IL did not
decree braid and buttons as trimmings;
| consequently people would not buy braid
and buttons. The sale could not be fo.cf d;
consequently as season, Ii was poor
one in this department On the other h2nd
| the lace department has done an unusually
1 good business.
| Good Judgment? Yes, of course, buyer
| must exercise judgment, but even after the
most careful and discriminating buying, II
| frequently happens that a mistake has
been made and that one has in stock lot
of goods of some particular sort for which
there is no call.
| Here is a case in point:
You remember how much fringes were
in vogue for a time this winter. Wen, the
girls in the store and the drummers were
ali taking fringes. There was 20 be, they
declared a great run on fringes for the
spring and summer, and on all sides
| was asked When are you going TO put
in stock of fringes?' Why don't you
begin to buy fringes? Drummers declar-
| ed that prices were advancing and that
I was making a great mistake in wait
ing. / replied that l would wait little
longer, and if prices advanced should
feel surer of the market
1T waited luckily, and all at once
fringes took a drop. In weeks time
| there was an absolute slump in the
fringe market, and in three weeks drum
mers were offering me for $3.50 fringes
they had formerly asked S12 for. So you
see one cannot always tell how things
VIII turn out.
What would have done If had
bought fringes and had surplus in
stock? Oh, then, there would have been
| a bargain sale of fringes, l suppose. A
bargain sale, you must know. is very
interesting affair Everybody knows that
| It is interesting to the general pubic, but
everyone does not know how amusing It
often it to the salespeople. If four or five
people can be attracted to the bargain
counter then the sale is an assured fact.
Soon there will be ten people, then twenty,
| and in a short time as many as can be
looked after That is an almost unvary-
ing rule. 1t is the first four OF five who
decide the day.
Last Monday we put on the counter
200 pieces of embroidered goods, mostly
| arummers samples. They were marked
| to sell at a low price and by II o'clock
every piece was gone. / feel sure that
not half the women who bought them had
the remotest idea what they would ever
use them for, but they thought they were
| getting a bargain and bought on that ac-
count.
1T is curiously interesting to watch
women at a bargain counter. If one wo-
man is looking at some piece of goods,
every other woman In sight wants to
/ get a look at THAI particular piece and
} to find out how II feels. If the woman
who has 1t keeps 1t for some time and
then puts 1t down, then the other woman
: Immediately concludes that 1t must really
; be unusually good or she wouldn't have
kept it so long, and there is a desperate
; rush for it. It's great study in human
nature to watch them
Edward Bok writing In the May Ladies'
Home Journal, on "A Boy for a Hus-
band" contends that no young man I'M
der twenty-five years OF age is in any
sense competent to take upon himself a
wife Before that age he is simply boy
who has absolutely nothing which he can
I offer to girl a safe foundation for
life-happiness. He is uniformed in his
, charac ter, unsettled in his ideas. absolute
ly ignorant of the first essentials of what
, consideration or love for woman means.
He doesn't know. himself, let alone know
fno He iS ftIil of faQripS and
| n is his boyish nature to fit from one
fancy to another. He Is incapable of the
affection upon which love Is based. be-
cause he had not lived long enough to
, know what the feeling or even the word
means. He Is full of theories, each one
OF which. when he comes to put II into
practice, will fail He is boy pure and
simple passing through that trying per-
: iod through which every boy must pass
before he becomes man. But that per-
iod is not the marrying time. For al h i
opinions Of life are to change, are his
fancies of the girl he esteems as the only
giyl in the world TO make him happy. The
, man OF thirty rarely weds the girl whom
he fancies when he was twenty"
"Where are you going this summer
Agatha?" asked one of party of young
girls busily discussing their summer plans,
, SAYS the New York Tribune.
"Oh. l am going to try new depart
4, ure, answered the latter. Mamma an
have decided not to go anywhere. We
; may take short trips here and there IL we
feeel inclined, but practically we mean TO
stay in town all summer. really think
? 1t will be great fun, for mamma says we
. can ask men 10 dinner and go on all scrt
os excursions. I shall ask girls 20 SOP
, with me. too. Won't II be funny to wri e
, Dear Molly or Dolly, or whoever Il may
be. won't you spend a week with me i'm
r New York In July or Augusta "
"Oh, how lovely" cried her friends in
chorus. do ask me- and me. and me. IL
Is SO duh at the places we are goirg 10;
nothing but women TO talk to and abs y
lutely nothing 10 do. A visit to nice house
| in New York In midsummer would be the
most delightful novelty. How odd that no
, one ever thought of II beforer'
= And really. when one comes to think Of
| IT, why Is IL that so many people make
| themselves uncomfortable every summer
} | by leaving their large, airy homes, W IN
| fl,.4. Irtl .fal al.