The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-03-18
AT THE SHOP WINDOW.
A Phase Of the Newly Married Who
Have Just Started Housekeepinq.

Have Just Started Housekeeping.
eve see," said Mr. G.llmmerby, "all
sorts of people looking in at all sorts
Of store windows; women looking In
at the beautiful things displayed in
the windows of dry goods shops; chill
dren, enchanted, looking in at the toy
windows; hungry people halting to
look longingly at the steaks and chops
and turkeys and celery invitingly ar
rayed in the window of the restaur-
ant; skilled mechanics viewing with
keen interest the fine tools shown In
the window of the dealer in such
things
I'VE see all sorts of people looking
In at all sorts of store windows, but
among all these people think | like
best the young married couple looking
in at the window of the furniture
store.
Il like young married people any
way, happy and hopeful as they are;
of limited means perhaps, but with
life and the world before them, with
the present and the future rosy. Their
present stock of housekeeping goods
may be small but how nicely they
make 1t do, how happy they are with
what they've got now, and then with
what joy do they contemplate adding
to their stock as they go along as
they have the means.
There's one corner in the sitting
room, for instance, in which a big
comfortable chair that she would so
much like to get for him would fit so
nicely, and they are going to have
1t some day. And the day comes when
they've saved up pretty nearly enough
to get 1t and she has had her eye on
just the chair they want for a long
time.
"And some day she meets him when
he is coming home from business and
walks home with him, young cou-
pie pleasant to see, and she halts him
on the way in front of the window in
which she has seen this chair.
"a busy thoroughfare, brilliantly
lighted, and all the shop windows like
wise bright with light, and in front
of this particular window where the
furniture is this young wife halts her
husband and turns him there to face
it. And over in a corner Is the chair
she likes and in a moment you see
them both looking at 1t intently.
"And you can't hear what they say
because these young people don't talk
loudly, but you can imagine her say
ing to him:
That's the chair, George, that big
chair over in the corner, and you can
imagine him saying to her:
How Splendid
"And then they both stand and look
at it for while and talk about 1t a
little, about how nicely 1t will go in
that corner and how nicely it will go
with the other things in the room and
how very comfortable 1t will be, and
then with her clinging to his arm a
little closer now they move on along
with the throng toward home.
Surely there can be no greater de-
light in shopping than comes to the
young married couple keeping house
buying things that they need or for
their homes adornment as they can as
they go along. What Joy 1t must be
to buy these things when at last they
can, and what joy they must find in
their possession as they buy them one
by one to add to their homes COM
pleteness, comfort and beauty; and
surely of all the people that I see
looking in at the store windows none
gives me more pleasure than the
young couple looking in at the win
dow of the furniture store at the
things they are going to buy."-New
York Sun.