Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1893 — Brightest Part of My Trip. [ARTICLE]

Brightest Part of My Trip.

The New York fashion correspond-. ent of a Southern paper gives out the following: A lady writes: “I have read your letters for a long time, and have often envied you the opportunity you enjoy of seeing the beautiful things you describe. I used to think, when 1 1 read of those charming dresses 'and parasols and hats at Lord & Taylor’s, that theirs must be one of those stores where a timid, nervous woman like myself, having but a few dollars to spare for a season’s outfit, would be of so little account that she would receive little attention; but when you said, in one of your letters a few months ago, that goods of the same quality were really cheaper there than elsewhere, because they sold more goods in their two stores than any other firm in New York, and that because they sold more they bought more, and consequently bought cheaper, I determined, if I ever went to New York, I would go to Lord & Taylor’s. “That long-waited-for time came in the early autumn, and I found myself standing before that great entrance, with those wonderful windows at either side. I summoned tny courage and entered, as I suppose tens of thousands of just such timid women as I have done before. My fears were gone in an instant. 1 The agreeable attention put me at my ease at once, and I felt as much at home as though I were in the little country store where my people have ‘traded’ for nearly a quarter of a century. “And now, as I wear the pretty things I purchased, or see them every day and find them all so satisfactory, I think of my visit to this grhat store as the brightest part of my trip to New York.”