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Show Faiutlug Women Strotclliig for Bsrcnlns. A rival store advertised that it might be well to "look out for fun" in a certain dry goods center that afternoon, whereupon where-upon the shop which had just got through an experience of fainting women at onco did up woolen challies in pieces of thirty-five thirty-five yards each and directed that those bundles should be sold across tho counter at one cent each. Ono of tho floor walkers, in speaking of the scene after the bargains had been exhausted, said: ''The store looked like a battlefield after a preliminary skirmisli. In my vicinity thero were twenty women, all of whom hail fainted from theii struggle to secure a part of the allotment of challies. They were laid outcarcfu!!y upon the rugs which had been Liken from stock for their accommodation, each one with a clerk bending over her administering stiicli'iig edits or bathing her head with cologne, working liks beavers in order to get their patients around in time for closing the store. "I suppose that tho sacrifice of dnf j goods cost the store upward of $2,000, but it gained this: For months the women who succeeded in getting what they sought, as well as the unfortunate ones, will not fail to visit tho shop regularly every day to take ad vantage of any other bargains which may be given unannounced. unan-nounced. They will, each titno they come in, buy something, oven if it lie only a half dozen buttons, and tho profits from these women, who would riot, under un-der any other circumstances, enter tha place, will return the outlay of the firm many hundred per cent. "New York Tims. ' ! |