Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1917 — FRIEND WIFE WENT SHOPPING [ARTICLE]

FRIEND WIFE WENT SHOPPING

She Didn’t Invest Any Money, but She Got a Lot of Ideas Out of Her Trip. Well, she is about ready to start to work on her new suit and new hat. She has everything now except the goods for the dress and the trimming for the old frame. She has the Ideas. She has tried on suits at every place in town where suits are sold, and not once did she pick at the price. And she didn’t kick at the prices of the hats. It made no difference to her whether the hat she was trying on was worth $9 or s2o* She was not hunting a hat —she was hunting ideas, Claude Callan explains in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She tried on one suit worth $45 and another worth S6O. No doubt the clerks believed her to be a middleman’s wife, and they must have thought that she was very hard to please. Occasionally she found a suit that almost filled the bill, but there would be something wrong. At one place she found a hat frame just like her old one, and she immediately took a fancy to the frame. She asked the woman how she could trim that frame for her, and the woman went into details, while another and perhaps better customer waited patiently. She has all the Ideas she needs, and soon will begin work, but, of course, she will have to go down and try on a few more suits before she gets hers basted.