The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-28
WOMEN BUYERS LIVELY.


New York Letter in Washington Star.
The advance guard of women buyers is
here. They will be swarming over New
York until about the middle of August,
when, of a sudden, they will vanish like
spindrift Fifteen thousand of them en-
livened the town, and themselves, last
year. They all knew their New York from
stem to stern and from gansway to gang
way when they got through with it, An
inquisitive, acquisitive, >penetrative and
acute parcel of women. the women buyers.
and how nobly self-reliant and independent,
withal. You may know them. in the hours
of daylight, by their tidy short walking
skirts. spick-and-span shirtwaists and
rakish outing hats. After dark, in hotel
dining room, smoke-wreathed table d'hote,
theater or wheresoever. you distinguish
them by the sumptuousity of their raiment
They are gorgeous at the dinner hour and
afterward. 1t is point of principle with
them not to permit the splendiferous wom-
en- of mere wealth to outshine them in the
peacock alleys and palm rooms of the
hotels that are cities in themselves.
who is that stunning woman in the
green foulard en- train and the distinguish
ed manner. there in the music room?" you
ask the hotel manager.
Mrs. Barterino, buyer from Indianapo-
lis-regal, Ell, SOM" says the old manager
nudging you in his sad dog style.
"And that dashing Diana in the enbroid-
cred white null, with the diamond orna-
ment in her hair, just entering the mez-
canine writing room?' you inquire again.
Miss Pickandchoose, millinery buyer
from Omaha-and 1 guess maybe the black
hair and those black eyes of hers are not
just about right" replies the hotel man,
who is hopelessly frivolous like many of
his kind
WELL" you say to the hotel man, mean
ing 1t, too. "the women you have here now
of a truth know how to DRESS"
Let us go down to the Balled-up-C astoria
for dinner, says the everyday New York
er, with noble MISUNDERSTANDING just
won bit of money on the horses-to his
wife.
Not there" she replies, If she is know
ing. Those women buyers from the West
are overrunning the place now, and how
can one compete with their glad rags?"
One wonders, therefore, il these women
buyers array themselves thus ornately at
home, or If they spend eleven months of
their unoccupied time at home, together
with their entire surplusage in earnings, in
making ready for the annual summer
splurge in New York
anyway, the women buyers contribute 10
the picturesqueneSS of town at this season.
They teach even Independent and self-Sus-
tanning New York women how to be I'M
shackled. They go everywhere. in pairs
trios, quartets, quintets, punches. You are
as likely to find a chattering and care-free
outfit of them over in little Avenue A
Hungarian table d'hote as in Martins or
Rectors, and at any hour, even well past
midnight, when dining or supping Is the or
der of business.
You will run into them in Chinatown,
gently stringing the hotel detective who Is
showing them around. You will meet up
with slews and slathers of them at any
old time on Coney's mystic isle, racing
with each other on the wooden steeplechase
horses (whiSper: sometimes astride) or loop
ing the loop or cruising in that awful con-
traption called the barrel of love-" or
even throwing the base balls at the live
cOon'S" countenance.
and when they quit the town they do not
have to think regretful thoughts and say
unto each other, I'VE missed this, or that,
or the other thing"
Their sightseeing Is of necessity accom-
plshed mostly after the hour of twilight,
for they are immoderately busy with bust
ness during the the day. Many of them
are buyers only in name. Thousands of
them make the pilgrimage to New York
every year just to "look."
The milliners, for instance, whose soli-
tary purpose, besides that of diverting
themselves is to look at the newly-arrived
Paris hats to be able to copy them
when they get back home. These looking
millinery women are cordially disliked by
the New York millinery trade. and they