The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03
1T WAS BARGAIN DAY.

'Well, I'm glad of itr' exclaimed the
little woman, as she got out of the jam
and Strengthened her hat and borrowed
two oins to make repairs to her dress.
Il might have known better than to
come to this sale. This bargain counter
business is all a cheat. and I'll be glad
to be swindled- Just look at 'em. will
you? They are almost tearing the
clothes off of each other to get at those
stockings.
II didn't intend to buy any-not me.
know all about tifty-cent stockings
marked down to seventeen cents They
are simply fifteen-c stockings
marked up to seventeen, Just as my
ors, and they have been kicking around
the store for the last year. I simply
wanted to look at 'em and see
Here the little woman paused, drew
long breath. and dashed at an open
ing in the crowd. 1t closed up before
she could reach it, however. and she
as flung back again.
Pigs. that's what they arer' she
muttered as she got her breath back.
Il never could understand why my sex
would make such an exhibition of
themselves. # it was crowd of men
| buying ten-dollar overcoats for ninety
nine cents you'd expect 'em to elbow
and push and kick and walk all over
each other. but women
Look at the jam around the dollar
gloves reduced to forty-eight cents for
this day onlyi Isn't it something
awful? No true lady would look at a
pair of dollar gloves. I never pay less
are made to order at that. If / walked
the streets with pair of bargain
gloves on | should expect to be run over
by an ice wagon Poor, deluded fe-
males! When [ left home 1 thought I
would look the gloves over, and if /
found a pair to fit the cook 1 might
possibly buy them. but the idea of any
woman of taste and reSnement wear
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The press about the girl who was
selllng bonbon toilet soap at three
cents cake fell off a. bit just then, and
the little woman tried to work her. yvav
in behind a fat woman. She was lost
TO sight for minute. but the crowd
SieWed ner nat over her ear, tore a
yard of lace off her dress. and cast her
out like chip behind a wave
I wasn't trying to get in there, she
explained to herself, as she leaned
against pillar to recover her breath.
Il know all about that toilet soap, and
wouldn't give it to tramp to wash
his feet with A friend of mine bought
some few days ago and it gave her
a skin disease and made her look a
fright. My toilet soap costs thirty
cents a cake, and my husband would
divorce me if I used anything cheaper.
| See EN- crowding and clawingi There
are two ladies whose husbands allow
| them two hundred dollars a month pin
money, and yet they are ready to
1
three-cent cakes of toilet soapi There's
a sign of pins at two cents a paper I
don't want any, you know, but I'd just
| like
She made jump and followed a cash
girl into the press. That is, she man
aged to squeeze in ahead of an old lady
with gold glasses and a young woman
| with a Roman nose, and take them by
surprise. They recovered after mo-
ment, however, and crowded her
against a dumpy woman with such
force that she was glad to get back to
the corset counter alive.
Never again in all my life will I
make a fool of myself by attending an
other bargain sa1e!" she gasped, as the
tears came to, her eyes. "I didn't want
| had curiosity to see them They are
| just what I thought they were-brass
| crowbars, with points SO dull you
| couldn't stick 'em into pumpkin pie.
Think of lady using three-cent pins
| around her house, when the cheapest
/ second-girl or cook would be ashamed
to ask for anything under seven!
There's a lawyers wife with a hundred
dollar dress and twenty-fve-dollar
hat, and yet she's got her elbows into
everybody's ribs in her mad desire to
| buy FIVE papers of pins at a saving of
| four cents a paper. I'm going home. I
am just dropped in to see the women
| make idiots of themselves. When you
catch me-
| At that instant her eye caught sight
of a sign, Corset covers for seven
cents' and with a push and a jam and
a rush she made her way into the
crowd and finally reached the counter
and ordered two. She was wreck
from hat to shoes, and had broken her
parasol and lost her shopping bag, but
she had found real bargain and was
happy at last.-M. Quad.