The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-12
THINGS AS
THEY ARE
BY
GRACE PULLIAM,

II GRACE PULLIAM.
II This cold snap has about
frozen up everything in town
save the opportunity OF getting
REAL bargains-at Rhodes
Brothers.
Did you ever stop to think
what made the 9Th floor bar
gains possible? It's simple
enough-when you are on.
y
Dress goods, laces, shoes,
coats and hats are created very
much as one creates thoughts,
and puts them on paper for us
to read. III he thinks they are
clever, and fears some one will
endeavor to grab them, he in
vokes the assistance of Uncle
Sam-and gets a copyright. Ifl
he makes good, that copyright
Is big asset. He may charge
big price for his brains, but
/ fools there are who will gladly
pay the bill.
So 1t is with most everything
that goes in a first-class de-
partment store. The many buy
! ers go to New York or Europe
and OF course go to the firms
that blow the loudest, and are
recognized as being the best. |
They buy their wares-pay
their price. This is done for
the exclusive few-who demand
certain enticing, to them,
label, inside their hat or coat
which testifies to the fact that
that garment or thing was Gre
ated by a REAL ARTIST.
But successful buyer is
also a student of human ma
ture. He knows that all who
try-and often come across
with the goods-do not always
succeed. For some reason, no
one can just say what, they fail
of being the craze of the hour.
But their ware is just as
good-in many respects better
often so successfully emulat-
ing the things of the REAL
ARTIST-that only the eyes of
the genuine connoisseur can
discriminate.
4 The successful buyer sees
knows-and makes a bid-the
larger the bid, the greater the
bargain. The buyers going out
from Rhodes Brothers are not
cramped by lack of cash.
| Maybe it is q very obscure
little creator of fabric--he is
| thrilled-can hardly believe
his ears-when he hears that
someone wants his entire stock.
The stock comes to Tacoma
and every day you may see
part of 18th Floor Bargain
Store-at Rhodes And If the
little obscure creator could only
see how nice his things look
when once they are worn by
people who are not fooled by
mere name, but buy things for
their intrinsic worth think
the little obscure creator would
have asked just a bit more for
his wares.
|
| Two boys in this town were
talking things Overcome, the
son of successful lawyer; the
other, son of a lumberman
last summer, when the son
of the lumberman was a little
sad. WELL" said the lawyers
son, "my dad often takes ME-
out to the Country Club-gives
me a big feed-it costs him a
FIVE-but Dad don't care-all
the big guys in this town have
him for their lawyer" The son
of the lumberman couldn't
come back in kind--he was too
well up on the admonition,
we can't afford it'--so he
drawled out: "Well--Lincoln
he was heaps poorer-than
ever MY Dad-was-but he
had a heap bigger job-than
ever your dads got"
DO YOU KNOW THAT
"Curfew" comes from two
French words, "couvre feu,"
which means, cover fire?
Or
That the wool on the back Of
the sheep is the shepherds
barometer; the more curly it
becomes, the finer the weather?
| Or
Since the girls are now af-
fecting fur around their ankles,
that mere man says they have
simply added another furbe-
low?