The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-17


49, ,,on and the sweet old year dear
~ INC sweet Old Ycar.--and you! ....o..
II Vol, ana the glad young year. sWecs-
'S5S heart! ,,,u
A 10 tho glad young ycar-and YOU
~. dat ,ho "glad young year" has
4 .,atte,, fairly on its feet, the bargain
ssasnn il jnaugurnted and the le e,
y nvcrs, Of the autumn and Christrhas.ue
81 nrnsn,llnd ,,pon the counters OF the sto.cs
g ,,it,, a sweeping reduction III prices LOT
II tho delcctntion of lovely woman.
9 Strange scenes are sometlthes et''-.
A al m bargain days which afford no
~ w ~ . n,i,sement 10 the masculine corr
4 tinrent of society. An individual un't
~ ~ his contingent by name Fletcher
r,owan has been recently moved 70
& - r,cntnre womanly attitude ana
n demeanor on such occasions IN NetS ),
which he entities "Morte de GulheVere.
rhe femnin position is TOO u-.as ss.l,.
oh,e FOR 1t 10 be shaken by even such
Ut hnmor rs Fletcher Cownn's so,
a nc tho lines gre really very clever.
few Of them may be appreciated nero
@ ..An Epic OF Modernty' They De-
gin.
All day long the noise Of battle rolleu
Down in the basement OF the department
~ I u was Monday consecratc as bar
gain day.
There, in the elbow-crush' movec eu'''e-
Iookinr for challs quoted thres per
5&2 yard,
patIste at six and organdy at nine
Ana other stuffs reduced as advertiseu.
The shirt-uaist counter sore pes'eseu
a., skirted vulturcs, wild with taste Of
blood.
Moved Guinevcre transported By the
scene: ~,
For. never, in the history Of her IRE !.
Young, though housewife trleo' az
II twenty-nnc-'
s5 cost,
So many things she e1sI l'ao nv
gut now, this truck, thrown at her with
the vaunt u..,-
VI OF slaughter sacrifice, lot pu' '''is
day.
She seized the vantage Of each fraction
And flinging side necessity's still voice,
pourht everything in slight!
II 5Rnst-measured, as she was. at thirty
She bought, a-plenty. garments forty
5J span.
X The description, which goes graphically
on. ends thus:
In Kansas they have cyclones, SO tbs
said,
That watt the very house-roofs from
ones head,
As. in the Orient they have seismic
That topple temples from the crown to
And make the noblest fabrics Of the
III, world
Resemble thirty confines.
Thc women,s shouts now volumed to a
& vengeful roar.
And 10, the seething mob began to
sway,
Ana then lunged forward as a ship will
,cainst impact OF the tempest. Then,
ii broke:
AND everything that stood against It's
bulge
Went under. Pillars fell as in the days
When Samson marble used as peanut
ne stucco crashed from CELL the lights
went out;
TIE soda-fouutain blew up with a roar;
COUNTERS Of cfliraware and favrile glass,
Mingled in iridesceat glory with
Ter thousand cans Of French peas and
tomatoes
Poised Ia pyranide. were hurried
against
The cashier and the grilled adjustment
whist. over all, the great orcheztrion
played
when. aDace.
The fire-dsparrment bore down on the
scene.
THE automatic scrinklers were q; work.
Baptismal Ger the prostraie, stricken
mas:
Whilst scared above the echoes OF lost
The voice Of euinsvere, defiant, II: IS.
..1ll wait here till get my one cent
change!"
The anbul-wagon came; they put he'
"a symphony in fragments; there sh'
lay,
Her right hand clutching some ney
.& crimping-tong,
Whilst In her left. broken lander-ster
Eoft as a lily symbol in her hair.
III Zen seemed to breathe 1t had been trul
j. 10 bear her football on the golden stail
They die young. whom the gods love
We opine;
~ Poor Guineverc. closed out at twcnt,
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