Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-22
EARLY BIRDS FROM COUNTRY
THEY ARE THE WISE BUYERS
GETTING THE BARGAINS.
This Is No Ad, but Just a Hint to
City Folks to Get
Busy.

If any one ever really considered that
the rural citizens or the jewellers in the
outlying towns are slow, here is where
they are set right on the matter for it
appears to the merchants in this city
that the country cousins are the birds who
are catching the early worm. The finest
values. as the advertisements call a
good thing, are being taken right now
by the folks who have come to Washing
ton on The Stars invitation. That sounds
like the hackneyed call of the ad writer's,
doesn't it? let those same advertising
men tell the honest truth, when they say
that the now is the time to buy.
Every observant woman knows that
there is a certain class of Christmas
goods that is hard to get. The reason is
that it is an exclusive class; the stores
cannot buy it in tremendous quantities
because there are but a few manufac-
turers putting it out. The class covers
everything, and is not confined to dress
goods or Specialties of any sort. 1t is
the class that is bought early in the sea-
son.
In about a month folks will begin TO
shout that the stores have no selection,
and that Christmas shopping is the hard
est work ever inflicted on suffering hui
manity. And this will be partly true. The
stores will he sold out of their. very best
goods and the selections left viii be much
more limited.
And it will be these folks from the
country and out-of-town sections who will
be laughing in their sleeves and gettin2 :
ready for a fine Christmas dinner with
clear conscience, unimpaired digestion
and the knowledge that they bought cX-
actlE what they wanted because they
started shopping in Washington as soon
as The Star invited them. Christmas
shopping in Washington just now Is a
holiday stunt. rather than d hard job.
The stores are never crowded, although
buyers are f1ocking the aisleS all day
The clerks are not so tired that they
are ready to drop, and the shipping clerk
with all his assistants is not so rushed
that he packs Mrs. Jones' green pick es
N Mrs. Smiths picture hat. Things like
that are bound to occur. You know. Even
the best regulated shipping department;
Is nice. little. busy inferno about two
days before Christmas, when the great
army OF folks who put off shopping I'M
I'll the last minute has swooped down
on the store and demanded that the en-
tire stock be shipped to 10000 different
points simultaneously.
Last year one OF the best shipping clerks
In the business got himself into hot
water because Mrs. Ncveron Time or
dered beautiful punch bowl for her
daughters new home, and had il shipped
directly TO the young woman. She bought
II Christmas eve, and when the daughter
opened the bundle she found ten boxes
OF rouge, eighteen packages of nail polish
four large boxes of kitchen soap, three
potato knives, bucket OF disinfectant.
mop. lots OF perfume twenty bottles
of peroxide. three boxes of pills. a nurs-
ing bottle and a mouse trap. And care
fully inscribed upon card were the
words:
This is just what my dear daughter
needs for Merry Christmas
Daughter clapped her hands with de-
light when she opened the package
''Oh. dear. dear mommy; just like her.
Why. she's sent us a regular little
store
But mother, with her proud Iorgnette,
thought differently.
Now, don't You be caught that way
Come with the other wise people from
out-of-tosEn sections and buy your goods
now