The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1921-12-02
Generally Improved Money
Conditions Enhance
Shopping.
Paris Stores Seem Better
Prepared For Trade
Than Before.
Abbreviated Buying Former
Season Means Little
Old Stocks.

With Christmas just around the
corner, the season of gift selection
is at hand, and all is in readiness
in Paris for huge holiday bust
ness The stores present alluring
pictures of Yuletide completeness;
show windows display attractive gift
suggestions; church bazaars this
week, and next urge early buying;
the spirit of the approaching season
is beginning to pervade the very at
mosphere.
Busy days are ahead for Paris
merchants and holiday shoppers.
Many stores are engaging additional
clerks TO supplement their sales
forces during the pre-Christmas buy
ing season. Rarely has there been
such extensive wholesale prepara-
ton for the holiday trade.
In this effort to meet the apparent
public demand, merchants have
sensed the enlargement of the Christ
mas giving spirit that is more in
evidence this year than since before
the war. Prosperity and encouraa-
in this section. Crop prices generally
are considerably better than they
We're last fall, when a feeling Of
financial unrest, that has now BE-
come stabalized and normal, existed.
The outlook for tobacco is more
than promising, During the yea
many men have been re-employod
in the service of the railroad here.
so that there are now more than
nine hundred men employed at the
l.. & N. shops. Everything points
to well being that can ably "af.
ford" big Christmas, and it IL
human to have as large happy
Yuletide as is possible.
Every successive Christmas brings
its innovation of jewelry, bric-a- br;sc,
toys, new books and so on. This
year it appears that Gift Fairyland
has made Paris its home, and tlo
enticing toys and goodies on display
predict a bulging Santa pack, ami
brighten with merry anticipation
many little faces that may be dis.
cerned flattened against interesting
show windows just before and just
after school hours The opening of
y
produced numbers of quaint and new
toys. German dolls, that have been
missed from the stockings the past
few Christmases, have again aD-
peared in all of their realistic and
alluring beauty. The various and
remarkable toys that can be pur
chased in Paris this Christmas 1921,
cause many a grandfather to gaze
in wonderment. and sagely acknowl-
edge that there We're never such
when l was kid" and grandfather
is the ''particularist" one to choose
an attractive and desirable gift for
the little tots.
Whatever the size of the pocket
book, there are gifts to conform -
it, Christmas advertisements pro-
claim ranges of selection and price
scales on all kinds of gifts that
will please everyone. The thrift edu-
cation that found a permanent set
ting in this country during the war
days, demands combined knowledge
OF prices and values, that merchants
in their newspaper advertisements
gladly give. Christmas advertise
ments are read this year with avow-
ed universal interest, for shoppers
thus save time and energy, by dc.
termining when, and how, and where
to buy.
Too. Christmas buying has had
an early and favorable start this
season, and several local merchants
declare that their Christmas sales
to date exceed any previous years
| record. Although Monday being
damp and cold, was diseouraging
shopping day, last Saturday brought
hundreds of rural buyers to town,
and the approaching Saturday and
Monday will see the city streets
lined with holiday gift seekers from
all portions OF the county.