Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-07-01
ENJOYING
HERSELF

Souiu ChJOy III OhlS SNNSH
days. think I'd choose to be awake
bargain week at the stores.
81 have hal the most beautiful time
this week just being busy. One day
would go downtown and buy things
and have them sent home and the
next day I'd go down and take them
lack. Between whiles I'd show them
to all my friends who dropped in and
have them tell me why they didn't
like my selections. When nobody
dropped In I'd call on them and eX-
plain to them why I disapproved o!
their purchases and advise them to
return them at once. OF course, all
this criticism was taken I'm the proper
spirit.
when you've purchased a perfect
love o. blue chiffon gown and get II
home only TO find 1t Is purple instead
Of blue. you wouldn't have any re-
sEcct for u friend who didn't say II
WAS a horror and tell you to run
back with it. Things do look differ
cnt the next day-have you ever no.
ticcd? Even men find It so. | passed
the necktic counter In dry goods
store the other day and a man with Il
panied face was talking confldentially
to the clerk.
Say he was complaining, when
this was In the window 1t was a bee
yutiful lavender dream, and when /
tried 1t on at home II was nothing
but sartorial crime. so kindly take
1t back and let me buy can Of tooth
powder in it's place. | need snow
shovel. too-do you Curry emf
I've always regarded myself as a
person OF n sane and just mind went
on the yourg woman who had just
come In, but recent occurrences have
shaken that belief. You know that
when you plant a woman In the midst
Of mountains of $50 dresses marked
down to $40 and hurl ut her bewild
cred head 5000 opcrS coats that are
marked down to $50 and thrust upon
her sight hats that month ago had
$50 tags attached to their hlims and
now have nica little black marks
through the old figures and $I2 signs
below them, she can't he blamed for
going a little mad and buying rcck.
lcSSly Then on the way home she
adds up her purchases mentally, feels
nervous. d1: hes for her chcckhook as
soon as she reaches her room and
Is 70 To h"r sicEcning horror. that,
wni!r her tank account totals ninety
odd dollar. 10 has bought $14S
worth OF stuff that she Is trustinEly
expected to Pay for at the first of
the Month.
II L..
nigh waiting ,or the hour TO come
| when she car tcar downtown TO be
! nj the store whom It's doors open ?
Why, Il regular groove has been worn
In the store floors to the returned
goods dCsls these days
III | 90 downtown bargain week
with the mid intention of buying a
| spoo' Of thread. a bolt OF baby ribbon
! and EOX of handkcrchicfs. I'm lust
| rs likely rs not tn come home with
| fifteen yards of silk marked down
from $3.50 yard to 9S cents, new
| hat and Il fur coat. Then discover
that | can't possibly wear the hat
with any outfit I possess and that
| the silk Is Il color that makes me look
| Xix" Il brnilcd mushroom. and SOME.
| body points out that spring Is almost
| l.vrc and. instead Of fur coat. what
| | really need is q linen buster and n
! parasOl
IF you think II is fun trying To
! hard good money to the man behind
| The counter for some yards of silk
| It's because you know nothing of what
gentle woman will do at sale. II
| 10 n Iicnn,1rnuyn 4,
any mild hammered person when n
wo0 an with sharp chin and Wig.
orous arm muscles reaches over your
! shoulder and grabs the bolt of silk
| you are considering and sIings Il up
on the pile she already has I'm her
| arms. then smashcs her way through
the crowd to the door to consider her
! plumber In the daylight. Presently she
! will return to the edge of the mob
about the counter and hurl the whole
armful across the heads Of the inter
vening shoppers I'm the direction OF
tho clerk, with the remark that she
should think decent store would be
ashamed to show such goods. Occa
sionally one of the bolts so hurled
hits the counter. but most of them
| descend on the innocent bystandcrs
like the unexpected sticks from OK
ploded skyrockets. II is disconcertIpe
when twenty yards OF green brocade
land on your willow plumes and drive
q hatpin into your skull. although, oil
course. you can't help but admire the
skill Of the woman who achieves such
result with one simple twist Of the
wrist.
NO" concluded the young woman
who had just come I'm. 81 can't stay 70,
tea. because I'm on my way downtown
to take back three silk petticoats thai
don't match the dresses bought
them for and TO hunt UP n few shirt