Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1911 — WOMAN BUYING SHOES [ARTICLE]

WOMAN BUYING SHOES

THAT IS WHEN FAIR CREATURE IS MOST EXASPERATING. After Trying on All the Footwear In the Store She Finally Decides That She Will Look Elsewhere. See, children, the lady Is buying a pair of shoes. She has been buying a pair of shoes for an hour, as you can ’see from the signs. The salesman waiting on her looks as if he had been run through a wringer, and his collar Is wilted. About the floor, on the perforatedbacked benches and on the wide shelf below the stock shelves are many shoes and many boxes. The lady has one stockinged foot on the near-leather stool' and looks ■ pleased, because she has tried on every shoe in the place as nearly as the salesman can figure. To begin with, she wanted high shoes with light soles and cloth uppers, and though they found a pair that fitted her exactly, she decided on tans instead.

The tans were too small, but the clerk didn’t say so, merely observing that they were a little short for her. Then she decided on gun metal oxford ties, and the clerk swarmed up the rolling ladder and got down seven boxes.

One pair of those fitted her exactly, but the unfortunate salesman had told her they were only $3, and she always got $4 shoes.

Then, having been fitted in gun metal oxfords, she changed about and decided on high shoes with cloth uppers, but with heavy soles. Having accomplished a perfect fit In these, and having revolved the matter In her mind, she decided that she didn’t want high shoes at all. Spring was coming on, and she had seen a beeyutiful pair of high-heeled slippers In the window. Would he get them out for her? Sure.

But she didn’t like these on close inspection, and preferred a shade of tan. But tan wasn’t so fashionable, and she looked at the black. Then another salesman came on the scene and assisted, and the proprietor came and announced that he knew just precisely what the lady wanted. They were ordered from the east — might even be at the depot now. Could she come in tomorrow?

And now observe —the lady is telling the proprietor she will come in tomorrow and departs. The proprietor knows where she is gofog, and knowing it, sees no use in having her followed.

She is going to another shoe store, because she, having decided she needs new shoes, Is In a panic lest she will not get them at once. And she will get them, too, because such a thing as a lady postponing getting shoes when she has once started to buy is absolutely unheard of. And in the shoe store the proprietor sighs and points • to the scattered shoes, and boxes, and tissue paper, and shoehorns, and two salesmen sigh and begin restoring things to order. They say nothing, for there’s nothing to be said. It’s all in a day’s work, and they’re sorter used to It. — Galveston News.