The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-08
THEY TELL or SOME or THE ILLS THEY DEAH
Chey Must First Be Ready to ORer Suggestions whfeh are Net Ac- cepted By shpppers Who are
 Really Only Looking

fme. oui vive, in The Chicago Re-
 cord Herald.
 Name picked up three ragged rem mnants of her new draped hairdress and pinned them into place Then she pulled down her belt, rearranged the tulle bow at her neck. and beckoned Sadie to come on oyer. Saddle wac dusting some ashtrays with portraits of some dead matches and cigar ashes on them. It was not her only { occupation. She was listening to { Jennie's description< of Charley's "ciassy'' overcoat. But that did not ! interest Sadie. Had Jennie talked of l Fred's red and purple necktie. 1t would have been an entirely different matter. Ones own heau Is always so much more important than somebody else's beau. That is--however. this sisn't an essay on heart affairs.
 Sadie came on over.
 say" said Name. '.do you ever de- tach yourself long enough from Laura Jean and Dory Thorne to read the papers? Yes? We'll. are you on to all this talk about early shopping? Amt 1t the scream? They're shopping all right. It's blum. this getting into the game early. I haven't soli . thing for the three weeks that I've been an tnterloper in this here de- pertinent. DO your shopping early says everything that's printed. Be good to the poor overworked shop girl and they throw in a few pictures showing us with wrinkles and weak backs and our hafrpins failing out to excite the sympathy of those unfortu- mates who haven't thing to do all the year round but spend money. It's a shameful way to treat money. They don't want to give 1t house room. Out you go they say to good coin; I would be rid of you Then they come here to us, and sit here for an hour and ask us the prices of things they won't buy in seventeen years If you throw in a pound of tea and $6 worth of trading stamps.
 Sadie chewed her gum with deep meditation. Sadie is not philosopher.
 What do we care s1ong's we get our pay?' she inquired.
 We get more than our pay" re- marked Name. readjusting two hair pins that were Investigating the cells and channels of her brain, we are getting free gratis Instructions in hu- man nature. I don't mind selling things. but I dislike giving advice. A real preachy. lady shopper stopped here @ few minutes ago. She wanted 
 or a bunch of vfolets or something for her young man. She told me all about him, where he works and how curls ornament his brow. Did l think he would love the mug to death, or did I think he'd prefer q necktie? didn't seem to know. So I looked far away and twirIed my fingers.
 What are you going to give your young man?" she asked.
 ~a.~. rx.. a-~s~-t -ts.Ae r sidering that 1t was none of her busi- ness. So she reported me to the head of the department for being impudent. wonder what she thought she was a lawyer? When any cross-examina. tions come my way. I trim them"
 "Youll lose your job" said Sadie ominously.
 I'll lose 1t anyway on December 24." remarked Name. Tt isn't hitch, ed"
 .what ia been eatin'Y inquired Sadie, Something disagrees with you.s
 Something disagrees with me all right" replied Name. land 1t is the early shopper. She has too much time. She knows there's several weeks yet, and she's going to have joy before the fight starts. She doesn't buy any, thing: she just talks about what she's going to buy at the last minute. Other years. we've sort of dawdled along pleasantly. and had full iunch- con hours and all that but the early shopper Is only the late shopper out walking for her health and talking for to air her lungs. The early bird catches the hookworm."
 Who's that?" asked Sadie.
 Get wise. get wise said Name. Its the lazy bug She doesn't have to buy till she has to. So she looks