The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-12-03
After Unpaclxing Goods Quickly Goes
to Home Town Store Sees What He
Buys and Makes Vow "Never Again. :"

ICopyrignted. 1914. by Thomas ]. Sullivan. !
Experience is the name men give
their follies and their sorrows. 1t IL
the successive disenchantment of the
things OF life.
Ii Is reason enriched by the spOils OF
the heart. At least that is Smiths In
terpretation Of experience.
Disagreeable Brand Of Wetness.
One December it happened that the
weather man seemed to conspire with
the mail order man He turned out a
disagreeable brand of wetness that ill.
ed the farmers with distaste foI the
"open road" that David Grayson so
'rimistically praises in all seasons
Hut all farmers are not optimistic.
ike David.
Farmer Smith liked the comfort Of
his sheltered home. So he naturally
was attracted by an invitation from
the mail order house to sit down In
an easy chair before the fire and select
his Christmas supplies from the pages
of a wonder book left at his front gate
by the r +, d. man.
Wonder Book Solves Problem.
The idea seemed mighty attractive
and comfortable. He thought he might
as well experiment once anyway.
So he and his wife had a nice time
filling out the yellow order slip accord
ing to their needs and revenue.
Then they sent 1t on its way to the
firm which promised them thrilling bar
gains in all lines of merchandise from
pins to palaces
The Smiths had made one trip to
town. The day had been characterized
BY haste. hunger and worry. They
hadn't had time to buy what they
wanted.
So the catalogue seemed to solve the
problem for them. 1t seemed as II It
were going to save them lots Of time.
energy, money and brain fag.
Shipment Arrives.
It was a beautiful pref Christmas
dream made up In four measures Of
comfort. confidence. curiosity and hope.
The awakening came afterward. like
wise the disillusionment
Their shipment arrived two days BE-
fore Christmas. This was very reas-
suring. But 1t ne.essitated special
drive Of nine miles to the nearest o..
press Office.
The G. O. d. express charges were
Unexpectedly high. The first intima.
ton Of a mistake came with the real.
ization that the express charges ex.
reeded the difference IN price between
home. store and catalogue house arti-
rles
Traffic mad been congested and the
passage rough Damage WAS visible.
Smith hoped II wasn't serious. hut he
took his stuff home with unpleasant
torpbodings. and that night when the
family was asleep he and mis- wiz
opened the package In the Kitchen
Caused Smith to Swear
There was u lot of excelsior to IN
park. hut when the work WAS done and
the contents stood revealed there was n
verbal fireworks display ON the part Of
Smith. who forgot for the mOment that
NJ was deacon IN the church. and
Mrs Smiths tears werp bitter
The parlOr lamp was q scream Its
embellishments were nvid enough u
iight Q colOred Bdptist church without
the AID Of acetylene.
The handcraft Rattenberg looked AZ
" II had been made on sweatshOr
machine. intended for Ov~raIlS The
guaranteed purr wW'l OvSrrOai SsSur
20 them At n glanre nov thUrOughlS
they had seen Hst-'rd
Passing M the balance OF the 'ai
'-gpd tmrgainS the DHby's stH'kinI
war thr piece Dr. resistance Of their
Christmas feast II Was n tariatan af
tair Decorated with green and REQ
v.ri, tasspls and tiIlrd with Junk that
represented the discard Of one cent
novelty Stock ana exuded suggestions
Of tartprta from top to toe
Do Shopping at Home.
rhe stm'kinV was the tinaI straw.
ArxI uOrning Snith hitched up old
Hp~s. aud ne and mis- wife plOdded to
town again through the slush to get q
tona tide supply Of Christmas gifts
What they bought then had the guar
ante. Ot the manufactures. the dealer
and their own eyes, for BY this time
the Smiths were strictly from Missouri
rhey had had their lesson
Rut how many thousands OF Smiths
and Joneses In this country who have
had lesson. bnf hesitate--in fact. alb
Solutely refrain-from letting their
neighbors and friends know that they
have been through the same expert
pnce!
The reason that they do not admit It
is easily explained In q few words.
They are ashamed to acknowledge
their cupidity and are waiting the op.
portunity to see their neighbor bite.
After their ueighbor fell into the trap
they decided that the best use to
which their catalogue could be put was
to lay 1t under the Yule log and start
o holiday blaze going In the old fash.