The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-21
SHOPPING

September Is shopping month Deny
II. as you VIII. defy IT IL you can. II is
just as surely period OF transition
or clothes and bonnets as Mlchael mas
before last was the time that you gave
your aunt the pink ribbon clothes
hanger that she had given your sister
the Michaelinas before that Thus II
Is. without further ado that we set
down September as an inconseouent
aud vagabond month, wherein my lady
goes shopping-and not always TO buy.
You have just come back from the
mountains. high. high, high or the
waters. deep. deep. deep; with COM
placency YOU unpack your pretty
things and hang them on the various
chairs around your room and the ward.
robe door In your mothers room. In
your heart OF hearts. in the secret
places OF your dear feminine soul. you
have considered yourself TO descend TO
common vcrnacular. well dressed
and you decide on your dinner gown
with that idca in view
Somehow the frocks look queer The
trimming on your pretty pink hat looks
like somebody had made desperate on
slaughts on the roses blooming there
and the ribbon streamers have taken
on the appearance OF a candy mans
facc left too near the stove, so YOU
believe you will look al the rest. One
By one your treasure gowns arc tried
and found wanting, and II is with a
nrm and unrclentine face that you at
last descend the stairs and make the
announcement TO your assembled elders
that you are going shopping. Isn't 1t
queer the draggled. good By summer
look that clothes can take on at ,he
first tang or fall in tho air?
So Mr.. World and Mrs World. TO say
nothing OF their daughters three, have
come TO town to shop this month. bent
l,ar In lata et,.ra "a
the prettiest stun, and. indeed the
shops are most ailuring. You simply
can't wait for n street car without the
siren arms OF q blue gown Reckoning
10 YOU from behind plate glass and
gilded bands. and YOU run hurriedly
away from the sight OF a case full OF
new bonnets with the price mark care
fully concealed. Your eyes that have
been blue as gcntians all summer are
narrowed TO mere jade Sits in your
face. all because OF IA maid Oft the mist
dress that YOU saw yesterday.
Mrs World aud her daughters three
have checked MIR World downtown
somewhere 1T the club. so that ne can
enjoy himself immensely. they have
patteG his back. and then, armed
with ducats ana lists. they have Jour.
neyed up the street and down. Through
the winding paths OF frocks and slippers
and past goddesses of plenty bearing
uON u upon Il simple ana trusting pun
lie with delicate fingers filled with
gracious belongings You try on q
hat and the daughter tries on n hat.
and she likes II and you don't, and
she doesn't and YOU do.
II is q trying situation. but after
cutting glance at your offspring. ard
a return OF the same from the laugh
ter. you say sw Getty that YOU have just
been looking around. and try not to
slap her pretty pink face right in the
store because her ideas are different
from yours IL is terrible thing, this
bringing MP OF daughters with .ndividu-
ality, because then they don't hesitate
TO tell YOU that you look like fright
in bonnet that they dons like. Tho
girl Of the past would have murmureo
something alial and allowed her parent
10 stray the streets In unbecomins
headccar.
From place to place YOU go. and II
is all the same thing. There is the buzz
of INDIGESTION In the air, and the Whole
town is weighted down with the af
fairs OF winter hats and gowns
and shoes and coats and ties and
blouses The situation in Mexico may
go hang. for all thar the women care.
and the buyers OF much that they do
not want go about the streets, the
while the siren spins her web or
pretty things about their feet Yes,
September is shopping month; so
around the corner and see.
BRENT WITT.