The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-05

unhoticed into nearby department store, man whose courage in other walks of ] life is unquestioned. As difficult as he found it on the out side, the poor man finds his troubles only begun, once he gets on the inside | silk sale is in progress. and every | woman on the face of the earth seems | to him to be there blowing through
 masses of foulards, China silAs, pussy
 willow taffetas, and polka dotted messa- | lines.
 "A silk sale is bad enough I heard a
 man say once. but polka dotted silk 1 sale Kind heaven gave the poor man who gets tangled up~in such an event. 1 Of course, every man thinks that every woman in the crowd at the silk sale sees 1 him and him only. but the real truth is | (we women all know) that a woman sell ! dom sees anybody when she goes shop | ping, especially if it Is ''barbain sale | day.
 | A womans mind is wax tablet on which she is busy recording the marked down values in real lace, and what she
 can get for 39 cents in the way of Swiss fiouncings.
 She is surprised beyond measure when
 she suddenly runs slap jamb into some man friend who begins sheepishly to ex- plain himself. Fact is,' he starts out by saying, T don't know anything about shops. Never
 been in this one more than three times before in all my life. I'm hunting for certain kind of porch swing, and they said I could get it here. Went up on the elevator and got landed in the millinery department and had an awful experience. Imagine me in a millinery squabble. I think l ended by buying a spotted veil or something equally as ridiculous. But suggests the woman, If you went to buy porch swing. why buy a spotted veil? Come along. I'll take you to the place where they haN ae swings" But
 He doesn't want to go back. He murmurs something about a furni- ture house further down the strees, where they don't keep anything else. and he'd rather go there. But
 In the meantime the woman notices that he's waiting for something, and when his change at last arrives, he says sheep ishly that he saw some beautiful green ties while he was looking for the porch swing and so he bought two. Anal
 Foxy Quiller!
 The average man is absolutely callous 1 to bargains. "I don't give a cent" he says, peevishly, when he is told about s5 shirts being sold next Monday for $1.9S, If they are going for quarter. I'd rather go to | haberdasher and pay the original price and have man wait on me than to have some girl smiling and grinning at me in | a department store and asking me what size I wear" They are mighty brave-men aNe But
 From the 16-year- -old collegian to the 6O-year-old man, they will deny what they are in a department store for once a woman catches them shopping. Now
 A woman simply revels in such place! She adores "basements,' where she can get an egg beater for 19 cents and where nutmeg graters and corkscrews and carpet tacks and bird cakes are all going, going-gone-at half their original value
 No matter what her social position is, she is feminine enough to have a bar gain," no matter if it Is something that she can never by any possibility use Maybe After al-- No woman has the subtlety to under- stand why "a man thinks 1t a matter to blush about when he's caught red-handed on shopping spree"