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Show WHEN MAN GOES SHOPPING. A Frail Craft in, the Tide of HumanityPity Human-ityPity Him! (New York Sun.) A man shopper is an uncommon sight in the strenuous department stores. He is more of a sight by the time he gets out of one. Tie crooked, hat dented, hair mussed, he'd be sure to attract attention, even without the hard-fought-for bundles he clutches. Instinct tells most men to shun department depart-ment stores, experience teaches the rest. This has to do with those who are, have been or are to be pupils in the school of experience. One lesson, properly learned, fits any man for graduation. He is usually inveigled into the courts In some such manner as this: "Good heavens. Mary, what on earth's the matter? Here I come home, tired out after a hard day's work and find suDper not ready,, wraps and paper and th"ing3 strewn all over the house, and everybody tired and depressed. Anybody might think that you were the fellow who had been working all day, and that I'd ah, well!" , "I ana tired, John. I'V7T::::;::: today" ve te?n "Shopping? Well, if vo . ! you go into a store and hm. hav? r without making such , a tv You'd better 1ft me lo v ';';s its going to upst't thin-t r shnn-,,;:' time you buy A ,, th j1 ' And that is whoro J,,hn Lhr'l-'' 'v'-' it. Mary, with r vor-V " Pv.Ut3 his lot him do the shoppipli hf7 hMrH: time she gets a rh.lUl.f IT vrv' that it would do him ,;,,, 0 Hi take a day off frnm ti!0 "t ness. Then she oY? amuse him to n:-i-',wn ,,. ','lHt it J"1-or J"1-or if she's very eru, i as to send John , h, uT1''" S list of "just a few liTti,:' tul'i w1' may as well get vhi!, hv'""Cs whin,3,' there." ' s irounj J Mavbe the fit t thin; r. . , a china penholder t,, n-VtM hn' !!t babv's desk. "Th.it s -!l 'ho sV,J as he pushes op, ,.. tr-.' ;'W( ln J and starts boldlv d.uvn ' ?1" the first floorwalker. ' ' to,'.; "Can you tell v , r, r china penholder for j , .r c'ln 5- "The china d'-piirtm-..'," s. 'ik?"" ' ment." And the t,,,; ,;.ln 'he h waves the victim tow r i i,'!v"r "Uui. '. After being sweor rev-course rev-course bv the tide ;u i v 1; "ut 0' v almost found'-rint; j;, th- i'-n- r nant whirlpool. .John t . ' . . r'"r)l)on floorwalking pilot, '', ?,n 'oZ safelv down the a ,;..... ' '' - crjv, "Child's penhol.J.T tor", ' .w'"- " he gasps when he js , ,1.'. , mn lv.-self. lv.-self. ' ' l" rht h:; "You want the st;iti,i,irP- a oolite saleswoman i.vv-.-"rw' kl,f,li' gallery, north." nirn- r,:-. John respects the fTnm and is silent. sman, f,; Fifteen minutes late- vol. him. red-faced ami j.-ir,tir- fir-tionerv fir-tionerv department. ' the s'i- "Well, sir?" "China child's desk ;-.,! "Toy department; entr.-o ?''-fr At the toy department tVv thev didn't know iut wv,.,.' t:w h" bv a "desk holder for ,-h" m'n pen," but they thooght ,Vh!tf! ' one at their furniture (',, nm - 1 third floor next to-. n-it t1 0n ''" wait to hear whre tN furniturA" ment was. He turned nn ' '1 15 started to elbow his wnv back to the entrance. i:..-,-- i ' , f '""'i store, however, he bo-iaht th. ,: holder for a child's . next to the door. - 'Wt But this case is nv-reiv that of trying to buv an arti.-e f,T whirhr was no particular demand at which was not in the le;, ret,Nj p"" experience is not a marker to th itXV man who is tricked into uttewiin-, li' live barzain sale. ""'iclr. Women to right of .;m AVomen to left of htm. Women in front of him Volleyed and th'in.jer1 Came down like ruin and hail Tall, short, and strong a-l frill Jabbed him in ribs and chest Fought him with tooth an, 'rai, Fought like six htin.lrM ' ' Bishop Potter said recently" ttu. , goods bought at a bargain -al w" V ' amined closely the stain of blood '. be found on every piece. "I couldn't figure out what the biN meant," remarked a man who has there, "until I attended a. harcain ' myself. It's true that there was" v actually spilled that dav, but 'it wai ". wonder. I don't doubt for a minm t"a-the t"a-the bishop could find records of ales-- -would bear him out." " L"1 After attending a genuine 9i-cem '. duced-from-a-dollar bargain sale' ir-. man is oniy too glad to pluneMtnii crowded elevated car and have a'chjn to collect his thoughts in the comparatin quiet of the rush-hour crush. The odd part of it is that departm- stores seem more considerate of ty-men ty-men patrons than they do of the worp.4 Men's furnishings are almost alwavs the door, where patrons can dive In ar out quickly without getting mixed m " the crowds. Salesgirls are more attentive to e customers. Some women shoppers ar mean enough to intimate that this is y cause they like to flirt. But it pmbahl. isn't. It's more likely that there's son thing in the very helplessness of the hm shopper that appeals to the compassLc : of the saleswoman. Not only that, but a man is easier n sell things to than a woman is. ; "A woman knows what she wants." i1" ' sayirrg goes, "and doesn't get It. wM!m I man doesn't know what he wants a-j does get it." Or if he "doesn't gt it he is pretty ?:; to get something else, which amounts the same thing. If a man loves his wife well enoughs go shopping for her he must love hr enough to buy a great many more hm and stockings and thines for her thaa she'd ever think of buying for herself. |