Show SHOPPING FOR CHRISTMAS carrie careless absent her visits to tho the stores WHAT SHE SEES THE PUBLIC buyink jabs ileane on the Cotin counter tere and nd hear her H seators stators talk abo enraged Decal DoelTer wars the girl medical Stud ghastly conla scraps of talk alone broadway copyright IM by W johir Johi leLl 1 ono lorn into highwayman shouting in Chic agol ton thousand lovely highway women shopping in NL kow york one holds you joa up tho etheri hold you down at t the hinds hands of one you yoa moot moat robbery or adden death la in the hands of 0 the tb other you are ara twisted permanently out of plumb and bombarded with scraps of conversation which would causo cause the tha chicago borror to drop his bis swag and toko take to the min ministry astry ho he it there Is p no 0 parallel lel to now york women on xmas shopping thop bont bent kit and I 1 plunged in loto to the ibe happy mob after this story the other afternoon attern at 4 kit was to apply the moral bud and I 1 was wai to find it it the editor bad told me you see that I 1 would doubtless bear a great many sensible remarks and I 1 ome very tory excellent excel loat hints about xmas its iti growth origin customs lad and indue nc apon the social life ot of the nineteenth century naturally Kitura lly the assignment demanded two or more people so I 1 pressed rit kit into my service down broadway Bro adwar we wa went won on billows of women which paused at so como me window for an instant and then surgen surged madly on I 1 I 1 1 I 1 it F I 1 S I 1 V I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 is j I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 il 1 I 1 f 1 el I 1 just and so toward the next and all tho the time hundreds ot of other women wore were drifting into the big biff shops which sheltered them all arnd seemed to let at none escape in one ona kit and I 1 camo came i shore in tho the wake ot of a tigel lady wearing largo earrings earring of 0 turquoises and dla dia moods I 1 suggested wo we might listen to her and that hr bar queer costume would be beguile quite it a touch says kit think 1 il august at the beach unless you add something to that costume as you havo have it now Thal boen pigeonholed bolong BO long dear and its to so very fragile anyhow that I 1 dont sea ce how we can possibly uvie it as aa it A xmas moral try again and kit sulked bulked the lady in the tha tiger skin jacket it if I 1 must be ba ecaca stopped in front of 0 the elevator and said to her companion john thinks it ft would be ba great to give a dau sante party parly the night eight before xmas eve and introduce a santa claus who would give favors acors to xmas smas broes hung with rings and pins the tha roal real thing thine ot of course pretty chic idea it the guests would havo have to take us up tip then I 1 fancy 1 I should be as ashamed bained to accept S and not give an entree in return carrie the creature la is talking elthor of what the restaurant chats serve alter after fish or of what socie tys chef has been known to do tor for just such each a woman as your tiger lady the th moral Is 1 sharp enough to penetrate even your obtuse it my car 14 0 I 1 I 1 A I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 f 1 4 I 1 I 1 1 I I 1 II 11 1 4 k 16 j I 1 Z A 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 4 01 I 1 11 J 1 fhe Sway Swag ja gre girl with too gym G 1 rie rles hero here are kals kringle and all his bl reindeer and wo we basely turned tamed to haunt a newly married couple their lagging steps led them to the piano lamps and there they halted baited her bar hand s huddled beneath his cape while W bile his periodically ri pressed that part ol of his arm aria where hers her rested we sneaked up behind imy I my darling what shall it bea very handsome lamp air lr responds tho the sales salesman anin oh lob georae we w must be economical I 1 cant lot let you waste this money on III me a atamas were ivera married now cow you yon lovvo know and its all different tile the sealskin cap I 1 want to give yon van and the lovely shirts with the embroidery ob yos yes whore where Is your underwear this with a pleat pleas but smile to the salesman an awful pause oh ob beav heaven aust sl what will he say aya but bat he ha mastors masters tile the situation and with teat preat answers ans wera I 1 two rooms over turn to the left let lat them go ga two rooms over while wo we get our breath broat li 11 implores jav elt 16 there are a couple 0 or pretty girls who aio talking about and their lovers I 1 know knew tho the pretty 9 girls eirls were flitting bitting nt at the ribbon counter I 1 narrow pink baby ribbon seven yards for mames maines baby you yon know kate im fitting 11 t s little balikas for or it the she s n fool 1001 to marry though andrillo and bho lillo might bay biava made ado a howling bucceri of surgery sarg cry her berve was iron its ita do doad a d froug to hurt our cause by such a backslide ohl oh kate it if you hd bad soot tag cadaver which came in tho the other day it wi wag 0 to o reh fresh that I 1 just begin while those abo glazed eyes at us after they were out ft 11 was perfectly fascinating ono one of the girls sald the abe was wa aini going to tako take the bead home and stuff it to got oven even with tile the U of ja boys boy who rho analco pocket books book 9 out of th the cannad allies at ad subjects uble cl as J toj sou aira of dissecting but 1 I vowed if 11 th th 0 took that head beor before we w lad had had three months work oo on it therell bo be brou trou trouble ba a at no ko 4 48 8 lc lace four our yards lot let me ma see BOO would you una line the basket with white silk and mako make pockets packets of 0 bra brod ad pink malro moiro and nd put heliotrope 0 sachet achet or violet in the wadding this this la Is my out practice driy day slid and I 1 must toa tear r to ret get tho the rit rest of my gill gifts como come on to the underwear department I 1 am going to got bomo bamo savil tary for or my iny si seventeen sov enteen and loans toward werd lace tog Kory scorns flannels and rys plays she has baa warm rod blood in her bar volus volant poor poor little babal at last lait they appear the th swagger girls laugham lau ghag nr and just AS draws them they stop at laces oh lob borl last night in tho the conservatory con territory when harry was bout about to do bl his 1 I 1 11 II III I 1 I 1 1 t I 1 ba NIE 1 kai az 7 f 2 ii A I 1 1 1 1 M ma I 1 I 1 q I 1 I 1 T I 1 av I 1 4 Z 1 who would deceive each other best to ask me to be his ahli xmas gift 9 little more please yes ye that will do and I 1 was lending him a hand band so to peak that tom somers on the other ida of tho the palms began telling somebody of the boston girl who nover never said bild chrysanthemum midge all those ivo ive cared shut his and tried to no on what did sho aay mr somers So mors asked the girl actually harry was listening lor for the answer in that breathless breilh leM moment she sha said calame 1 I laughed harry laughed somers shouted ted everybody went to supper 1 I think xmas gorgeous oas this year ceapa and tons ot things to give and loads ot of things to goti like it a lot but there are so 50 many love gifts that I 1 cant remember peculiarities ill be sending brushes to my bald headed uncles mirrors to my old aunts opera bags to people on the frontier kow como and help machouse ma choose harrys suspenders su ile he needs bracing im sure thoy vanished slid and the place where thy they were was lost antly III I 1 ad by an exhausted ozi exi man and his wife hes gos boon shopping with her whispered kit look at that awful pallor hes on the verso verge of 01 total collapse go goon on martha and buy me anything and ill rest bore any of 0 the things wova weve looked at today to day the cutglass cut glass pitcher the gamo game plates plateau the finger bowls or the mink capo or those laces were hero here now and id like somo some lace il 11 1 1 I 1 a t I 1 1 I 0 I 1 N 1 1 I 1 I 1 V X 1 I 1 e I 1 I 1 F it 1 X r I 1 1 1 i 4 I 1 5 go I 1 0 y I 1 61 1 lent hint him a helping hand 11 tor for my xmas present martha hadia it waited though to hear her lords prayers ue ile drooped alone alon over laces the only inert mass masi in that huge shop around the corner sa aa engaged pair wore choosing each others gilts gifts each struggled to appear disengaged and to convince the aba other that they were buying engfor or someone some one else eiso do youth you think lok my sister would like this fan dear oh never mind the tha price open it and see if it will satisfy the sweetest awo alost girl in all crOsti creation Oil oh ned had its so lovely I 1 do begrudge it to your sisters but you like the ring I 1 bought for tom are you sure it will fit at him and so I 1 shant ask you to give mrs me the lan fan tor for christmas they stroll to the door arm in arm kit and I 1 take advantage ot of the wide swath they cut cot and follow to the street tho the tide has turned and flows up broadway Is he her father well wall I 1 guess eight more Is one for him who said embezzlement jay gould Is the man who the morals moral of this town P well parkhurst Is to blame tor for A christmas story CA CABBIE n ze |