The sun., 1909-02-14


OF being his size. Suddenly q man away
back In the rear row reached out q hand
and grabbed the seal brown hat on the
head OF the man who hated to give 1t up.
Cant you sec 1t that won't tit you, you
glnkf growled the grabber at the man
from whose head he's enatched the hat.
And it's Just my size. he added az he put
stuffed SIPS into the clerks hand and
vamoosed like man running away from
swell, OF all the galll' grunted the man
from whose head the bonnet had been
grabbed. .,
-'Ho was dead right growled the fel-
lows in the rear rows who'd observed the
incident. Whatchoo want do-hang
around up there in front all day and give
nobody else chanceT
"You see it's only in quite recent years
that men have come TO appreciate the
cleverness of the women's idea in buying
bargain stuff out of season. Women, Tor
example, right now are taking full advan.
tage Of the really worth while sales OF
shirtwaists. They're fixing themselves
up with shirtwaists for the warm weather
OF 1909. And there are thousands or
women who pick up decided bargains In
furs when the weathers meltingly not.
Well, the men. as say, have got next 70
what a good scheme this is, and that's
why they're so snoopy after the mems
bargains these days.
"a little while ago we had big sale
here Of mems shirts. Most Of the shirts
were of the lively summer patterns and
they were sure enough values. We get
rid Of such stuff at this time OF the year
solely for the purpose OF making room
for the new lines, and the shirts are sold
for about one-half what they brought
during the regular season. Well there
~ tha NJ TINT
shirt sale when 1t looked as II we might
have to call In the police. The men el:
bowed and dug and gouged and pushed
and showed to get up TO the counters
where their shirt sizes were indicated by
big placards tackled on poles raised above
the counters. and the remarks that they
tossed at each other were certainly caloric:
1t often happened that two men would
grab at one shirt at the same instant.
both Of them succeeding In getting some
kind Of a clutch on 1t. Then they'd tug
and haul and pull all Of the fold together
pins out Of the shirt. and even then some
of 'em wouldn't let go.
Hey, you, l got my mitt on that
first one Of EN- would say, and You did
like blazes-l beat you TO II by block,
the other one would hotly retort, and then
neither man letting go OF the shirt, they'd
Jaw and chaw back and forth, and they'd
hang right on to their piece OF the shirt
too until some clerk, necessarily const-
tuting himself an arbitrator, would swing
along and pour oil on the waters.
1--we seen some actual mixes over
collar sales. These collar sales, as
matter Of fact, are about the most di-
verting things we have around here.
and we've got into the way OF sort OF
looking forward to them, because they
break tho monotony Of the grind.
Ever title while we ease of by the
bargain cute some tens OF thousands
OF collars hat have become soiled by
handling. They're all Of, the staple two
fo- a quarter brands, these collars. and
sell them for five cents a throw. We
u.ap 'em together in bunches OF a dozen
in big boxes, set together along the middle
Of the aisle according TO the sizes. The
hoyes rest low on the floor. All the
hunters for collar bargains have to do Is
TO bend over tho boxes. pick out the kind
OF collar they want or think they want
and they're fixed out.
Sounds easy anourh Of course. And
it would be easy too IL there weren't dso
r1any lenders over the different big
boxes at the same time. But they all
descend upon us nj once for collar bar
gains. and they all want to dip into the
boxes at the same time, and that's where
the devil is to paw. Only a certain number
of men OF course can assemble around
one of the boxes at the same time. but the
men bargain hunters don't appear to tahe
this quite obvious fact forgranted at all.
Fverv fellows in more Of a hurry than
the other one. and the way thev do crowd
and iostle up to those boxes reminds ma
quite heap Of the way certain grunty
animals shoulder and nuzzle reach other
to ~et up 10 the trough.
-Thev are often so eager in bending
over the big boxes TO paw the various
STYLES OF collars over that they butt their
HATED heads together and knock each
others hats of. and the hats fall in a
tumble into the boxes. and then the bend
ers begin 10 fume and cuss, and on several
occasions I've seen 'em take a swing at
each other lust for luck, sort o.. These
scra ps are ALWAYS broken up by employees
as soon as they begin. but I've seen quite
a number Of good healthy jolts handed
out over the collar boxes at that,
YES, it's time 10 can this comedy about
women harpain hunters. Thev're keen
and nifty al that work, but thev don't
know the rpdiments of bargain hunting
compared with men