| Show Henry Mclemore i 1 NSW NEW YORK YORK YORK-A A few months I ego iro I risked my sanity by spending spend- spend ing an tn afternoon oon shopping with withA a i woman who A V 1 trying toa to I Itt i was ss a hatI hat tt bUY p D During my Y convalescence con I w wrote rot e a astory astory story about received Lt t t. t I many many beau beautiful ti- ti ful letters of 4 f th Vi v vand a y and nd also numerous numerous numerous nu nu- s sug suggestions shat u g- g that I shop with a an avlo oman man n for if I 1 shoes really reany fly wanted McLemore run the e to o Complete gamut of horrors I Last Tuesday the head buyer house felt that she must n Ii our have e a new pair of shoes and I decided I had better grab the Opportunity to go along becaUse because be- be caUse ause while she may not know t it V it jt may be the last pair shell she'll g get et t for a long time time March March 15 i July 15 October 15 December r 15 5 Whew But why do I need to V remind you of these dates Brother l Ve i We started shopping just ju t after lunch and at 5 o'clock sh she finally finall final final- l ly bought a pair of shoes which she Bhe assured me all the way home on jm the bus she didn't like at all allAnd allind And ind was going to return them t first thing in the morning f The gruesome afternoon started start- start t ed Id this way i We stood for a full 20 minutes I in front of a shoe store studying the shoes In the window Look at that that that-isn't isn't that a acute acute acute cute shoe Oh look a at that one its it's even cuter Hey there is a darling pair and Ive I've paid twice as much for ones not half halfa a good Lets Let's go in This is going to be a cinch I thought to myself She likes everything in the window Well We'll be in m and out of here in five minutes The store was crowded but a clerk detached himself from a customer and ran over and took off one of my shopping companions companion's companions companion's companions companion's compan compan- ions ion's shoes thrust it in his pocket and ran like a rabbit Where the devils devil's he gone to I asked as Oh hes he's gone to wait on a alot alot alot lot of other people first she answered You see he has my shoe and he knows I cant can't get out She wasn't at all upset by bythe bythe bythe the absconding clerk but began limping around the store with one shoe on and one shoe of off looking in cases and peering intently at the shoes other women women women wo wo- wo- wo men were buying Finally the three of us got together together the the clerk she and I I. I It n struck me that my companion having had the same feet for more years than shell she'll admit would have some idea of what size they were but no she and the clerk got into a big argument argument argument ment and he only won it by yanking out the measuring board He Hc won by a size and a half She Informed him that she wanted some brown walking shoes When he came back she looked at what he had brought and in great surprise said Why I wouldn't wear those for anything They're horrible They look just like walking shoes I doubled up my fist ready to pop the clerk if he whacked her with one of the shoes but instead instead instead in in- stead he was very pleasant and before I left that store I I became convinced that shoe salesmen are among the greatest diplomats diplomats diplomats diplo diplo- mats in the world and should be used more by the government in touchy posts I sI gather Madam that what you want is a high-heeled high dress dressy vamped short-vamped walking shoe She wound up by not buying anything in this store confiding to me that they had no selection and that we would now go to the 6 store she should have gone to in inthe inthe inthe the first place know just what I want there They did but she So we went to two m more mar o r e estores estores stores leaving all the brown shoes and a few blacks and blues and whites scattered all over the place At the fourth store after sending sending sending send send- ing the clerk on more errands than a telegraph messenger boy makes in a year she found the pair that you already know about the about the pair she isn't going to return until tomorrow mornin mornine morn- morn in ine |
