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Show Shopping May Be a Wearisome Work or a Pleasant Adventure Shopping has two aspects. One rs of Its tiresome element The other is of Its Interesting element It is wearisome to stand about and wait until busy salesmen have the chance to wait on you In your right turn. The walking from one store to another, an-other, and then through the shops, In search of the needed, or wanted, thing to accord with both preference and price the purse permits, the trying on of frocks, or being fitted to articles, lf clothes must be bought, all these and many other of the activities ac-tivities of shopping are tiresome, indeed. in-deed. Were It not for the pleasant reverse side of the consideration, stores would not be crowded, only dire necessity would tempt purchasers. purchas-ers. Fortunately all shopping Is not of this sort. Window shopping Is the feature that begins the pleasure, even before be-fore the shops are entered. Window dressers are paid well to arrange goods so that they will appeal to passers-by to enter. They may see what they want, or perhaps what they would like to have. These window displays are planned to lure persons Into the shops, for comparatively compara-tively few persons go through a store without buying something, however small.' Windows, consequently, conse-quently, are worth looking Into. It Is a pleasure to do It If windows are fascinating, this Is but the beginning of interest. Once the shops are entered, it Is amazing how well and how Invitingly the wares are displayed. Any woman who has gone through just one department, de-partment, that carrying kitchenware for Instance, will discover many articles, ar-ticles, new Ideas, or Improvements of old ones, that makes her feel repaid for the exertion. The furniture department de-partment or the furniture store, the yard goods department with its handsome textiles, the dress shop, the lingerie shop, etc, each Is a joy just to look at. Shopping in large cities has both the tiresome and the pleasurable sides to the fullest degree. Shopping Shop-ping In smaller places Is far less exhausting, and, when there are fine shops in that town or locality, then the enjoyable element prevails. As every normal person has more or less shopping to do, It Is well, before starting out to determine on one of two ways to shop. Either she should go with unseeing eyes straight to the department or shop where the wanted articles are to be found, and eliminate to the least possible degree the wearisome feature. fea-ture. Or she should be determined to make the trip as pleasant and as profitable as possible, with least exertion. ex-ertion. Bell Syndicate, WKU service. i |