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Show She Secured the Wrap. A lady from a western city tells an amtiHing if bcartroniling tide of u shop-ping shop-ping tour in New York, tho trip from tho west beititf umlortakcn for the sole purpose ot euitin:; horst lf exactly with an elegant fur wrap. Her tlt'pnrtnro in hiffh spirits wan witnessed by friendg plunged In tho depths of envy. After tt microscopic examination of every wrap in tliut city sho folded thedrtiKry of her old cloth circular around her and silent- j ly Htylu into her homo town by a night train. Driving at once to- a merchant's residence, tin told him as well as her do-! bilitated condition would permit theeort ; of a wrap upon which she had set her ' heart, and which, she declared, New j York did not r;ontait. j Her merchant friend telegraphed to ! this city, tho wrap was sent by tho flrat 1 train, and ere nhe was fairly recuperated ' from her aotjuisition of experience she j wag in possession of the wrap of her I dreams, which sho had probably tiied on no less than six times during the i course of her rambles and preambles (tho latter aro ipiito us exhausting to the salemmen as tho former to the shopper). The congratulations of her acquaintances acquaint-ances upon her beaut if nl wrap, and their felicitations upon her good fortune ; in being able to select it in tierson, re-' stored her equanimity, but did not obliterate oblit-erate tha memory of what she calls "tluit awful week,'" so that her more recent re-cent pun liases in this city have been made by mail and telegraph, which do . not suffer from nervous prostration. New York Times. |