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Show BIG SALE MAKES TREMENDOUS HIT "Afler Supper" Sale At Howell-Car- don's Appeals Strongly To Ladles And Impoverished Hubbies. Never In tho history of local store-dom store-dom has there been witnessed bcfoic such an assemblage of femlno beauty as characterized tho big "After Supper" Sup-per" sale at tho Howell-Cardon store Saturdny night. The snlo was scheduled for seven o'clock, but by G:30 tho sldownlkt leading to both entrances were crowded crowd-ed with an aggregation of ponslvo femininity that mndo tho convention In Ilaltlmoro look llko a gathering or second rate pork peddlers In comparison. compari-son. And how they chatteredl And Indeed, why shouldn't they? Tor wero there ever shown such bargains in aprons, hamlkcrchlofs, hosiery, llngereo nnd llngero, such darling dainties In fol-do-rols nnd fll-do-rcps" And tho prices Oh, it wns cruel to cut the poor little things In tho manner man-ner In which It hnd been dono. When finally tho big doors wore thrown open nnd tho Immense crow-surged crow-surged Insldo it wns n tlmo for base, deceitful, Inslgnlflcnnt man to sw u mnro congenial clime, for that locality local-ity was nono of hls'n. Tho only member of tho genus homo In ovldcnco were the Btoro on-ployees on-ployees and tho members of tho Jen-peson Jen-peson orchestra which furnished sweet music for tho occasion. Every woman present vowed sho got the best bargain of the evening, nnd went homo In ccstacles as n result, re-sult, and many poor, tolling piece masculinity went to bed suppcrlcss after af-ter waiting In vain for tho early return re-turn of tho victorious Amazon, from the "After Supper" (?) salo. Taxes may corao, creditors may Implore, Im-plore, adversity may bang away with all Its measly might, but whenever a bargain sale ot the nature of tho How-ell-Cardon affair Is put on In Logan City tho femlnlnus wlfecus is going out after her inning nnd, bcllovo It beloved brethren, sho's certainly going go-ing to get it. |
