The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-02

to frankly own up that L was all
wrong. 1 am going to announce that
| there are bargain sales. 1 am going
| TO own up that there are great big
bargains to be had at bargain sales. /
am going to state my belief that the
| woman who keeps her eyes open for
! bargain sales will save her husband
thousands of dollars in the course of
| the year"
Mr.. Bowser, you are one of the
best husbands in all this wide world
said Mrs. Bowser, as she stepped for
ward and gave him a wifely kiss.
Now, then show me what bargains
you have been making
| We'll, here is bargain number one,''
he said, as he tore off the paper from
| one of the parcels and handed her
| three pair of stockings. "Those stock
ings have sold high as a dollar a
they were closing them out at 40
cents. There's a saving of $3.50
right there"
Two pairs were number tens, and
the third number seven, while Mrs.
Bowser's size is number eight. He
was looking at her with a bland smile
on his face, however, and what could
she say? They hadn't told him that
articles bought at bargain sale could
not be exchanged, and in making his
purchase he had never taken the size
of the foot into account.
And these gloves he said as he
held up pair of kids, green in color
and only one button at the wrist. 1.-The
girl assured me that they were all
the go, but in order to make room for
brass bedsteads they were closing
them out. l saved just IS cents on
en-
Mrs Bowser wears number six
glove, and those were seven and a
half She never wore a green glove
in her life, and Mr.. Bowser hadn't
taken notice of the fact. He watched
L., 60 g., s1@ /,
effort she managed to work up one,
and then he picked UP another par
eel and said:
1--WE have here some handkerchiefs
that were selling at 60 cents each.
The room was wanted for wooden
blankets, and so we buy the handkers
at one-third the regular price. The
saving isn't enough to buy a house
and lot, but every little helps. Am 1
bargain-hunter or am 1 not?"
"Of course you are, you dear, good
man." was the reply, though they
were mems handlers and she had
bought him better ones many a time
for less money
II don't know that 1 shouldn't have
bought this" he explained as he held
up a corset but it was going at such
sacrifice that 1 couldn't resist it. A
regular 81 corset for IS cents, and the
sales girl said it would last you a life
time oh, yes, I'm admitting that there
is money to be saved in looking for bar
gains
Mrs. Bowser weighs 135 pounds. That
corset was made for a woman weighing
just one hundred pounds more. 1t
wasn't her make nor her style. The
husband who thinks that his wife wears
most any old corset has something to
learn. Mr.. Bowser had looked upon a
corset as q corset and bought one. Mrs
Bowser had to laugh at the grimness of.
the joke, and he was pleased with HIM
self. There was one more package-the
largest of all. She suspected it's con-
tents and would have given hundred
dollars to be elsewhere for the next half
hour
1t was lady'S hat.
1t was intended for young lady of
eighteen or twenty.
1t was cooked up on all sides.
1t was rakish and debonaire and
saucy and impudent and dare-devilish,
and yet Mr.. Bowser rcverently extend
ed it on his hand. and said:
For you, my dear, and how do you
like it? I got it for SIS less than the
regular price.
Let US draw veil over most of what
followed. 1t is sufficient to say that
Mrs. Bowser tried to faint away, but
she only succeeded in sitting down on
the floor in Mysteries, Mr.. Bowser once
more became Mr.. Bowser. That is, he
Jumped up and down and tore the hat
into fragments. He talked about dt-
vorce. She was ordered to her mothers
by the morning train. She had driven
him to the dead-line at last. and-and-
He put on his hat and left the house,
and when he came in at o'clock in the
morning and was asked if 1t was rain
ing out doors he shut his jaws hard
and refused to answer, although 1t was.
and he had got sopping wet.-(Copy-
righted 1907, by E. c. Parcells)