The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-02
THE GIRL FROM THE WEST.
Pretty story of the Way She shopped
Fifth Avenue.

New York Mail and Express
The Virginia dame Of high degree, colon
ial ancestry and soft gray hair looked
across the clearinghouse table with a
smile when the girl from Idaho remarked
that she going out after luncheon for
the purpose Of trailing Fifth avenue The
Virginia lady said that 1t sounded inter-
esting; her tone implied that she would
| like TO know what il meant
The Idaho girl explained that she had
been told there were some over-collars fit
TO wear to be found on Fifth avenue, and
| she intended TO go and camp on their trail
| until she came up with them. She added
| that she left Boise City and came East
| chiefly for the purpose of getting some
over-collars that were different from any
| TO be seen in Idaho. She had shopped in
| vain in Omaha and Chicago and now If
New York disappointed her she meant 10
so TO Paris.
1t appeared from her opulent and chatty
| expansiveness that she had been in Paris
with her father the year that tulle bows
at the backs Of collars came into fashion
He had business in Hong Kong and Singa-
pore that year, and took his child with him.
She coaxed him 10 go on Ito midas coral
| strand, just for a trip" When they reached
Agra she put her foot down. Bombay, the
Red sea, Cairo, Brindisi and train to Paris
were her wishes. Her father declared that
they must make tracks back to San Fran
cisco, as soon as possible, as he ought TO
De at home within certain time. She
agreed To travel fast enough TO get home
OH the day he said, but ne insisted on
travelling by way of the Bon Marche.'
When she got TO Paris the tulle bows at
the backs of collars had just come in. She
got lot of them, among other things and
hurried back to Idaho with her parent.
nm lot 1uxr rafer o,a
church Sunday morning with one of her
new arrangements soaring at the nape of
her neck Lo. and behold half the women
and all the girls in the congregation had on
the same sort Of thing,
1t was now her determination TO find
over-collars unlike any known in Boise. A
turnover" that should dazzle her old
friends with its freshness of fashion was
the open ambition Of her soul. Not only
that. but she wanted one different from
any she had yet seen In any theater or
restaurant i'm New York. The Virginia
lady, whose ideas of social life were not
those OF public observation of the fash
ions. had no apparent thought of going out
with the Idaho girl But when she herself
discovered this at the end of luncheon. she
looked puzzled, as il IL were wonder 20
her how anybody could possibly fail Of
chance TO so anywhere with her, and in
vited the next woman, at her elbow, 10
come along
1t was worth while TO watch her meth
DDS. She went after that over-collar like
hunter after deer. She stalked IL with
W
see. She acted like "A detective i'm sleuth
novel avoiding all appearance of being
the track of anything whatever. Her first
movement was TO appear in perfect attire
New York cut. made and finished To her
finger tips. She struck the scent of the
game, and began on the trail at Twenty
third street. For several blocks she walked
slowly nOrthward with her attention turned
to the street. quite away from the shops
panorama. Her See the girl i'm the three
girls lapsl' was full description OF one
crowded hanson load of economical hurry
ing women.
At last she turned into a picture store
sat down cozily in the corner of big. soft
plush divan. turned admiring eyes some
large new frames, murmured her sense OF
their expensiveness, then asked a eolored
attendant for New York directory. She
looked up the address of milliner she had
forgotten. and after few moments of rest
wherein she talked of her dogs at home i'm
Boise and mare she used to ride, went
10 the milliner's and bought two hats. IL
was curious TO see her quick Western way
OF picking and choosing. She knew exactly
hat she did not want. to be sure. thaC
helped a great deal and saved almost more
time than if she had known what she
wanted, or thought she did. For of course
then, any woman can perceive, she
would have had TO change her mind when
she saw another hat that she wanted more
Ii explained why the West built up so
fast to see this daughter OF the frontier
select, buy and pay for two French hats
in just sixteen minutes, and get out into
open air again with that look OF serenity
which always comes of ordering even one
hat with even half of her celebrity and sue
cess.
She laughed aloud. bat stopped instantly.
and paused near the edge of the sidewalk
just before the next crossing Her merri-
ment was at sight of three small boys on
roller skates. rushing up Fifth avenue in
the wake OF a hurrying express wagon. TO
whose end-board the two taller ones were
clinging, while the third shortest little fell
low was hanging on as best he could below
the end-bOard, his feet almost pulled from
"A ( horses ahead rushed
roller skates forward. 1t was a funny sight
in its suggestion of stolen sweets that were
almost too sweet and rapidly supplied. for
the littlest boy was well dressed with the
look of carefully reared NOungSter. while
the two companions with whom he had run
away on the skates that were now running
away with him. looked very much out OF
their element on Fifth avenue.
The fun went out of the Idaho girls face.
and the look known old business came
into IL, as she beckOned hanson, then
coupe, and at last secured a great hack
passing, hurried her companion into it, and
ordered the driver TO hurry and catch up
with those boys hanging TO an express
wagon THE little one will be sure to skin
his nose when he lets go and falls down.
she said. He interests me. I've fallen in
love with him.
She came up with the child just after the
inevitable accident had happened 10 the
small runaway. His companions who had
led him into trouble had skurried away and
a policeman was just taking him in charge
when the Idaho girl swooped down upon
him from the hack. Come with aunty.
darling" she said. He shall come right
home TO mamma. so he shall" At sound OF
a tender voice the boy turned baby and boo
hooed. The Idaho girl gathered him up in
her arms and pumped him into the hack
Presently she stuck her head out of the
window and gave the driver a number IL
was the chid's home. She turned him over
To his anxious nursemaid onSthe paternal
doorsteps dismissed her hack with a ridicti-
lousy large fee and conducted her observer
to a restaurant on the avenue. declaring
she must have some ice cream 10 cool of
Just as she was ordering. her face flushed
she paused. examined her purse and or
dered cafe parfait. IL came In "A tall
slender glass: IL perfectly indivisible
not two spoons could have got into
that glass. She gave il TO her guest. drank
ice water and declared she always found
that eating creams between meals was
bad for her complexion.
Within two minutes after getting out into
the avenue once more a beautiful light
came into her eyes and she rushed rap
turously 10 a shop window. a small one
where the most exquisite over-collars were
displayed. They were of lace, but very
simple, very pretty, very wearable and so
Inexpensive that almost anybody might
have a few of them The Idaho girl cooed
over them through the glass. She declared
she had looked in hidden and secluded
places for them In every store in New
York. she knew she should see what she