Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-20

Shopping time is coming back again,
and with it comes the temptation to
waste time and energy in the shops.
Shopping ought to be a recreation.
It is very praiseworthy means of hav-
ing pleasant time, Of seeing beauti-
full things, of buying wisely what you
need and desire. But shopping as many
women do it is all wrong. These wom-
en- return from aday in the shops tired
and discouraged, envious and worn.
Here are some rules for the wise
shopper that may help her to make
shopping a boon instead of a nerve
wrecking, spirit-depressing undertake
ing.
Do stop at home long enough to eat
a nutritious breakfast. Chasing bar
gain sales on an empty stomach Is the
surest way of landing finally in the
sickroom OF a department store. The
| physician and the nurse who preside
over the emergency room in depart
,, ment store state that ninety-ntne
cases out of a hundred which come
under their care can be traced direct
! ly to shopping on an empty stomach.
And many trif1ing ailments which
make the day of shopping a period
same cause
I Neither should breakfast be swal-
| lowed too hastily, because an unmasti-
| Gated, undigested mass in the stom-
| ach will ferment under the com ined
| influence of excitement, exertion and
the polluted air incidental to a shop
ping excursion. Some stores are equip
ped with soda water fountains or lunch
counters, where bouillon or clam broth
can be purchased for song, and when
a woman begins to feel sense OF
| faintness it will pay her to stop Tor q
to her task strengthened and refresh
ed. If she is out for the entire day
she should stop at noon not only for a
| light lunch, but for fifteen minutes Of
absolute relaxation OF muscles and
nerves, taken in the ladies' parlor.
| Don't wear new pair of shoes on a
shopping excursion. And especially
don't wear shoes with very high heels.
unless you are thoroughly accustomed
to wearing Louis Quinze shoes. The
sole of the foot is a nerve center,
and nothing will react more quickly
on nerves and temper than pain IN
the feet. At one of the big department
stores recently a woman who was
the parlor and removed her shoes, In
| tending to rest her feet. Fifteen min
utes half an hour, an hour passed and
| the swelling of her feet was not re
l
have the maid in attendance telephone
to her home and instruct her daugh-
| ter to bring pair of easy shoes down
town for her to wear home.
Don't tell clerk you will come back
after your package and change ana
then hurry away in search or another
bargain. Unless you are an exceptional
woman you will forget one OF these
return trips before the day Is over.
Aisle directors are bothered to death
by women who forget which clerk they
dealt with, and who insist that pack
age and change are being withheld
Sometimes they leave package ana
| change to be called for In one store
and claim 1t in another. And they are
thoroughly indignant If the girl does
not recall their faces and turn over
! their package without some form OF
Identification.
Another danger which the careless
shopper runs in this respect IS having
her package and change claimed by an
| unscrupulosu woman who mas oeen
watching the purchase and noted the
article and the amount OF money paio
TO the clerk, who claims the package
and change by Identification, while It's
rightful owner is off hanging over
bargains.
i Don't ask for samples on Saturday
or during the busiest hours OF the DAY.
| If samples you must have, try to col
lect them before 10 or 1890 am. BY
SO doing you will get better attention
from the clerks, because they are not
missing sales, as they Will be later
in the day. Many of the more exclusive