The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-23
= We AE.YS thought I could MAKE
g good sal'ry outen aa,nuseum.
for: I'm one IF the few women
who haven't ever been to q. Bar.

one OF the rev women
who. haven't ever been to a, bar
= gain sale. Ny money maxim
hours are the same rs the, storekeepers
an you can't take the same time to >spe1l'
money t you do to make it tn any great
success If I could afford it there's Moth
in I'd like better n to go to one Of these
sales you read bout in the newspapers,
where women faint am p'lfcemen STAN
ready to do their duty. Seems if it mus
be exhilaratin'. I was over at Mrs: Jones
one day when she came home tt her hat
on one side Of her head, her veil sin pieces
an a great hole in her skirt. She'd
saved twelve an a half cents on a pair
Of gloves an spen.. two hours an a QUAR-
ter. to do. it, but she values her time at a
cipher an mos folks don't put any high
er price on it.
TITS such fun. says she, when she
showed me the gloves which foun' to be
both for the same han. You've no idea
what fun it is, Miss Larson,
TT looks. like fun, says T, says I,
thinkin' again how towzled she looked.
'Jes' how much'll the damages foot up,
says I.
THAT says she, is .somethin' I'm. not
goin' to consider says she, an. she won't
If there's anythin' she don't want to think
of she jes' shuts up her min an won t
let that thing in. Seems if she shows
sense, for I never could see what pleasure
folks got wonderin' an ponderin over dis
agreeable things :'at never have happened
an never may happen. But some jes'
seem to thrive on Worryin'. There's Mrs.
Tollefson, next door. neighbor but one of
mine. She comes in Sunday afternoons
when I'm comfortably restin' an she jes'
| the same as says to me, Let's worry Miss
Larson, as to whether Mrs. Lane won't be
sick mex week so she won't want you or
Mrs. Green goes out of town sudden, as
y,oicr on 1oo1y 20 low ~,
your ham, says she.
"And I says, to her, says I, When I
haven't anythin' else to do but sit down
an worry, says I, TIL feel as II I was
ready to be taken to another worl', says I.
on aren't SEN here to wonder what
happen says l., I may have my troubles
but I have my pleasures, too, an when it's
a matter of choice I'll think Of them,
says I.
But, as I was tellin'; you, Mrs. Taylor
had a sister here from the country las
week. Seems she never went to a bargain
sale any nore'n I did. an she thought it
was a accommodation for folks an not
t the storekeeper was tryin'' to get rid Of
a lot Of goods he hadn't place for. They
can mark 'em down but, as Mr.. Tollefson
says, they can mark 'em up frs. You
can do a good deal of markin' TIL one
lead pencil if you keep 1t pointed, seems If.
well, Mrs. Taylor's sister went down
+ town an she wanted dresses, for hersel!
an her little girls. She foun' EN- at the
en- of a counter all nicely done up in piles
'th a sign These goods SO cents, over EN-.
She. couldn't believe her eyes an she read
that sign back ards an, for ards an then
she began to pick out the colors she liked.
She hurried as fas' as she could for she
was 'fraid' some one else Id come along
an see jes' what a bargain she'd foun'.
She had quite a pile fore her, some of the
colors she didn't like very much but as she
| says, When: you can get. ten yards OF
goods for so cents you can ford to have
lem dyed. She mus have had mos four
! teen pieces when the clerk came along an
she says to him to make sure, says she,
1 These are SO cents, aren they?
| Yes says he, 80 cents yard.'s
"She didn' say anythin' an she stood
1ookin' at him for mos a minute an then
she got red assthe reddest piece of goods
an then she began to put 'em back. She d
thought they were so cents. apiece. She
knew it was cheap, but Mrs. Taylor had
tot her Of city bargains an she was pr
pared for anythin'
you ought to have heard Mr.. TAYLOR
laugh when she toll him at dinner. $;
Taylor jes' smiled, for she washer cousin
! You don't al'ys see joke When it's on one
! Of your own relations But you never car
| stop Iaughin'-if it's on the other side
L IF fire house. Seems II y