Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-03
AT THE BARGAIN SALE

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How the women do adore one another!
Ye-eh.
One of these two women twho illustrate
the alteration part of it, reached the bar
gain lace counter of the department store
about twenty-seven seconds ahead of the
other one a. few afternoons ago. The lace
on the counter had been marked down from
IS to IA cents, or some such matter
The woman who got there first must have
had some sort OF bunch that another
woman was tagging along. bound for that
counter, and so she swept the heaped-up
bolts Of lace with quick and unerring eye
1t didn't take her more than three seconds
to take in every bolt of lace on the counter,
and with fine facility she picked out the
prettiest pattern.
She took the bolt of lace In her hands ana
examined 1t critically.
II think" she said, musingly. with finger
to lip, addressing the saleswoman, that
II take about three yards OF this.
BY this time the other woman had come
alongside the bargain lace counter, thus
verifying the first woman's bunch.
The second woman made hasty survey
of the pieces of lace on the counter. but
the piece that she was looking for she didn t
find. Presently she glanced at the boit OF
lace that the first woman had ordered tnree
yards of and her glance frightened Ihat
was the kind of lace she wanted. She stood
and waited.
Yves, about three yards said the first
woman, and then she suddenly glanced baek
and caught sight of the other woman eteihs
with a wolfish eye the piece of lace from
which she was buying the three yards:
''Come to think of it, she Immediately
said to the saleswoman. Il believe l IL take
six yards of this" and then she cast PACK
a sort of well. how dye like that? look
at the woman standing in rear OF hef.
The latter shifted and pretended TO De
looking the other way.
six yards?" said the saleswoman 10 the
first woman to reach the counter
'Ye-es, 1 guess So was the reply It
awfuIly pretty and cheap, isn't 1t? Yes, IL
take six yards.
woman to arrive at the bargain lace counter
was manifestly becoming impatient as she
shifted from one foot to the other; sue
wanted some lace off that piece herself ana
the cool insouciance of the other woman
was plainly getting on her nerves
SO she leaned over to the saleswoman ana
said:
when this er-this lady gets through, VIII
you kindly cut me piece off that bolt?'
Certainty replied the saleswoman
'sThere'u be quite bit left.
At this remark of the salesWomans the
other woman cooked up her ears, as much
as to say, ooh there will be quite bit
left will there? Well, We'll see about that!
'Do you know" she said. with an aggfa-
waiting drawl to the saleswoman I reall!
believe l shall take nine yards Its so
pretty"
The woman standing behind her looked as
If ready to snort in her inner wrath. But
she didn't snort. She simply gaZed at the
back of the other womanS hat and mead
with the baleful light of utter hatred in
her ewes But she said nothing, and just
waited.
The other woman seemed to know fufi
well that the woman standing behind her
vas suffering from all of the pangs OF IN
appeased vengeance and hate. Consequently
about a moment later she said to the sales
woman:
'iEr-by the way, how many yards are
there on the entire bolt?
Fourteen" replied the saleswoman
well" drawled the woman who had got
there first but who at the outset-untii the
.,lher woman arrfved-fad only meant to
buy three yards-"well, l think | shall take
the entire piece. Yes, you may let me nave
the entire piece and she deliberately
wheeled around on her stool and gazed with
a cool smile square into the face OF the
woman who was standing behind her
The other woman was simply Dllnd with
rage by this time. She glared at the woman
seated on the stool. Then she EXTENDED net
gloved hand and made a motion with 1t
the same time further initiating the fabpy
by uttering the sound, FIT!
'Cat!" she said in a wrath-stransleo voice
to the sitting woman, and then she lurheu
and strutted down the aisle.
''Ha-ha-haw airily laughed the Slttlhs
woman and then she added to the sales
woman in a tone meant for the ear OF the
retreating woman, What curious parsons
one does meet with in the shops, to De
sure.' m
Adore isn't the word for 1t!