Show They Buy But Cannot Pay T ono one time tho those e who came Into Inlo AT A dally 1011 with men Illen ami wo o had a II lo to losaw saw about spend ITS lr foolish h buyers Milt mid wasteful Now No they pityingly IlI about the women who ho nr a n prey Ire to II the hopping microbe There Thero no other way to tl account for COI fortin tin the by hy which they stem to bo boIl possessed Il C wild a 1 Jewelry Jo I tore clerk The oilier any n R story printed about a 0 who went tho of ot loading having expensive he trinket ent C G O 0 D to tlc tie persons Ion tit lit fictitious addresses When hen arrested she he said sal ho help It Well lII thero 11 II store In Inthis this city sells Rull Jewelry that toll a II dozen such storks tort s n dozens C O Ds sent to with n 1 bona fide Otle address who promptly sent the goods IH back for somo reason Ionson or other And the queer thInK It IH Is In III no case COBO was It Ita a 1 confidence game Confidence In another alloth class Thc o women w era Indies A or scorned l to bo None Kone wanted to steal the tho piece of jewelry ilie selected nor nol tried to tomoka moka off art with It Phe bud to buy It even evol though she pay 11 for tor It There no kleptomania or 01 plain stealing about that Its of mania altogether Shopping Sh microbe Exactly It seems to tie be something gets Into tHo tho blood and plays the tho with women who much spare cash The 1110 other day two young women came In Inlo to look at neck chains the Hind that have a jeweled pendant at attached They were not expensively dressed and t wondered when I was asked to show chains that cost several hundred dollars each but course I had to trot them out I kept a sharp sharpeye eye on tho tray and on tio wo women men who over the things comparing ing praising showing tho keenest delight In handling them Finally said one with a Bland air I will take this pointing to a chain and pendant Please send It C O D I took her name and and when the left the store quietly put the thing back In the case No I oven take the trouble to telephone and I heard more from the young woman Had the transaction been O K she would have telephoned In a few bourn Indignantly why tho chain had not come Next to Jewelry waists and sill stockings are most often or with no Intention of buying In nearly every hosiery department nt this season the display Includes fascinating ing examples In silk marked nt ti great bargain sometimes as low as Jl a pair Few woman can resist them nt that price Tho other day two stout women paused before one of these felt of tho hosiery exchanged approving nods and then as one was turning away the other said hurriedly to tho saleswoman Ill take six pairs send them C O D The saleswoman glanced nt tho customer and the glance was eloquent Hut without a word she wrote down the name number given and took half a dozen pairs of stockings to send to the delivery ery room They will be bock tomorrow she answered In reply to a remark about plain looking persons buying expensive goods I often send cost costIng Ing 23 a pair and more to be paid for foron on delivery knowing that they aro certain tain to be returned I dont dare refuse to send them for one never can tell Jiow much money a woman has to spend by the way she looks while shop shopping ping In hoi weather Most women love beautiful stockings silk stockings In particular many cant seem to resist ordering some sent home C O D Tins is done far oftener now than when I first camo to this counter five years ago In fact at that time It never at all so far ns I can remember Iti dis disease ease I guess A shopping Well I wonder A woman Identified with tho O OD D department of ono of tho largo de department stores can furnish the most data inspecting the lino work for which the shopping microbe li The MarIt of that pass through this deportment u day when they KO out when they come in IH astonishing Most of them aro of the costliest varieties When tho wagon boy tries to deliver the boxen the own 01 s arc not nt homo they aro told there la no one on hand authorized to tophy phy tho bill tt of cum no tho goads murl come Tills of thing has to such n pass hero that during n special nalo when wo have only a few of a certain variety of In Block Bales Women arc Instructed to o send thorn C 0 D unless the H to bo u regular of tho house I dont know what has gotten Into choppers of Into but whatever It Is they dont scorn to bo responsible for forIt It any moro than a youngster Is responsible sible for having ur tho inca olos Now York Hun |