The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-05
fHE LEFT-OvERS.

W@h2t becomes OF the BOOuS lcll II
STOCK when q fashion plays out? WHO
wears the hais aud shoes, the bonnet:
and ready-made suits and dresses
which are piled up in stores and ware
houses when freal1ish public makes
up it's mind not to buy things of thai
particular style any longer? They
mug 90 somewhere. Who gets them?
One answer appears in this extract
which we make from the news columns
of the Kansas City Journal;
A local boot and shoe factory has
Just closed out fairly heavy stock OF
tan shoes, to go to a Mexican 1ooolns
house The MexicanS are just hndlng
out that the tan is the fashionable
The Senthesn republic is a public
blessing to. United States manufactur-
ers,'' said the president of the concern
which sold the out-ofdates. 1T al
ways comes along in time TO take up
spet5aities which the tickle people or
the United States have got through
with. There never WAS b better shoe
leather rnadepfhan the tan leather, yet
this country tfas refused to longer
wear it. With a hundred good reasons
for adopting the5tan shoe, the public
could otofindo one good reason for
abandoning it But it did abandon the
shoe.s apd,i with such, abruptness that
all OF US were left with stocks on hand.
Mexfeans. fortunately arrive in time
to -ciean slP 81 fffie LET leftover stocks,
Now. va icla3 Hawaii She will buy the
tan shoe sfor aogood while to come; for
we aasoGaisss. among the people
who take What others have tired of.
Ten TO one Australia viii gather the
s.fo Il lea afscI
for Australia and South America are
the chief markets for questionable
fabricsAa *t'ritabie godsend market for
the Johbe.s OF Paris, London and New
York. where fashions originate and
great surplus stocks accumulate.
No one knows how far Australia and
New Zealand are behind the times; not
even Those OF US who see the strange
crestures who drop off the up-bound
steamers and Haunt their antique vest
ments in the market place. Some years
ago anf AasetFsIian lady, arriving in
Southern California. complained that |
the people there had none Of the style |
in the fprnisb:Rg of their houses which |
was to have been expected Of people /
of social opportunities and wealth. |
AT home,' she said-and she did not |
say .ome eitiler-"our parlors have
handsome faircIoth furniture. black
and glossy and rich; in the center of {
the room we put a handicapped Ia
BILE and on tit are giIded books and a
family Bible, Bric-a-brac and the like
ara displayed In the corner of the,,i
room on things we call 'what-nots.
nothing of that kind here.
Then notice that your beds have no
valences and your windows no lambre-
you have engravings that
look as IL they had been drawn with a
pencil And do you know. went into
all your shops today and could find no ;
prenella shoes We always wear them
in Australian
Shades OF ones venerated grand
parents. Here at least was clew as {
to the whereabouts of things which
had begun to vanish from American {
twenty-five years before. The G
jobbeYs had simply unloaded on Aus
Iraiia and the Southern continent was c
still doing dts best to live up to such a 7
sift OF grace. +
OF course Hawaii is far removed G
rom state as benighted as this, forI
We keep about even with San Fran
;isco; but that metropolis is as much
rs year behind New York in many Z
II the decorative adjuncts of life. Out |
r California Is more so. A visiting
slergymans from New York found the
people Of Los Angeles wearing last
ears hats. The victims had not
lnown it before they thought they
we're, strictly IN it, but somebody had
o use up the stock which Paris, Lon
lon and New York had simultaneous
y thrown out; and it paid better to
ell it sese miles from the Atlantic at
fashionable prices than to dump it into
sowery stores and sacrifice it to the .
aob.