The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-16
REAL BARGAIN DAY
TOpekans and Out of Town
Shoppers Haunt Stores.
First Day of Haryest-Subur.
ban Unusual Offerings.
WOMEN ARE LOADED DOWN
1t Isn't Fashionable Now To
Have Things "Sent Out"
Wowie, How They Are Grab
bling Up the Silk Underwear!

The streets down town today are
more densely populated than they
have been this summer during the
heat of the days. And the crowds are
not sauntering and hunting the shade
of the awnings. They have the look
of going somewhere. or else they are
coming away from some place with
handfuls and armfuls of packages. It
is no longer patriotic to nave pur-
chases sent OUT; SO men and women
who are buying today are carrying
away with them everything that Is
hand portable.
Automobiles and trains are bring
ing. into town the suburbanites and
marketing crowds from the towns
round about. Families that have long
been waiting for such an opportunity
to buy a new kitchen cabinet, TO re-
furnish the best bedroom, and women
who like to buy a years supply OF their
favorite cold cream all at once, nave
come to Topeka for bargain days.
Strange automobiles and strange faces
give a new look to the old scenes
The druggist, the clothier. the hat
ter the furniture man, the drygoods
merchants, the butcher ana naKer
and candlestick maker, all have taken
on extra help for the two-day sale, ana
teh help is having all 1t wants to do.
On hot days a woman's fancy light
ly turns to thoughts of sheer. beruf-
fled. clean looking collars, and so the
collar counters are the centers of
trade Women who have been cycling
enviously the collar cases all summer,
wondering when they could convince
themselves that a little bit of dainty
organdie or crisp batiste was worth the
price asked for 1t, are literally up to
= tn 80 today for the coll
lars are marked down, and the coun-
tiers are being constantly replenished to
avoid the lean and hungry look that
they take on after an onrush by bar
gain hunters.
The Neither Linens.'
Next to the collars the women are
after what the fashionable clerks like
to call the neither linens" As a mat
ter of fact, they are not linens at all.
but most often silk, nainsook or plain
knitted suits of cotton. The rage for
silk underwear has never abated, and
the garments in daintiest shades of
pale silks and wash satins are dis
played in the most maddening fashion
in the shop windows. The complaint
of the grandmothers that 1t Is extrava-
CANT to wear such clothes where they
don't show, has lost its force, because
they do show. It is the thrifty streak
in her nature that objects to the
wasted candle under a bushel."
The Men Are Out, Too.
The light weight suits are given a
big place in women's consideration az
the harvest sale. The feminine world
of Topeka is garnering in the suits
that they expect to wear all fall and
next spring, for the good old days of
suit every season are far in the
past. Now, even a bargain suit COM
mands g. woman'S constancy for at
least three seasons.
And the men are not above bargain
hunting today. With the warning
that SIS suits are likely to go to $65
next spring, the men deserted shops
and offices this morning to pick out
a few Of the bargain suits to lay up
against the lean years.