The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1905, Page 21

THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. Praeger's are keeping 1200 busy all day and half the night during the before Christ )ver 600 are selling things at the House W ind do yres i iting on ¥« ac- s you walk the blocks of hand- shop fronts on C business For their Christmas trac Pracger's " take on about 500 or 600 new 2ir in PlOYes, the White House an extra or 800, the Em « 600 stmas of the ng R WHEN THE CHRISTMAS RUSH IS ON IN A DEPARTMENT STORE. N 5 G R S N D G D D O R DO 0SS S 550000 it 5 pretty binding and a low price very e will examine $5 dolls and $10 dolls And—now, promise me you'll tell the TOWR eyes 1 | 3 often decide the sale. and dolls with carefulest attention, driver yourself—have him bring it around ker = I Ak e vrxnmlam"' ahe interrupta U and twitter over two-cent and two-bit ‘he back way. If he doesn't :."’“bc‘h": . leaving me. “‘we have a fresh €OBY quu. 4na afrer she's looked over dofls, Urén Will just be sure to see him bring £ in the white binding, and we will ex- ing it in, they're so smart, and then— ire which kind of ribbon it is. having run the gamut would burst out cpange it for the soiled one.” dressed and undressed, blonde and bru- 7Lk IR T Ll e course: and she’s seen everything she into curses and begin all over again. “Certainly.” clinching @ sale to an- Detté. wix, ching, bisque and ras. she. . " CofC o Nl can fie Das u shell walt until she Drings I tell a girl at a counter near the other customer, “we will exchange this Will blandly say Notiats. countal ar: Wi a:dall Saieiige bl e s g entrance the story as a remarkable 0¢c- pook if it doesn’t suit—that Is if it = “T think I'll take a 50 cent doll.” put away in the room where such things a iy ‘_w“:“'h:‘l‘;“'::;‘ ;‘l";:h:l"”s': D.:.\“l CUrTenE N : ~ comes back in good condition. Right Or eise she'll sniff contemptuously and 4 held to await the day of delivery, and . jome C, 0.°D. bl Bt St - flcelvt .. L8 Bwonder,: shis s6¥s, apotibtically, ; siter Christmes, yes, Eddgey tarn away with “I saw ever so much finer Tommy and Nellie lie In walt and catch ' 1 theiBava 45 1. bronshE sbask. ]‘“‘_"‘ it Ookeivs. RArpwn. obyenfr 3 Ihat's the work that keeps ud busi- ones at — _with real hair. for 3 the man carrying it in, and mamma tele- SRt herois Hhs sibian Sl e & tan ';‘::’l”‘ "“fl night that I'm answering st she ‘u‘l.ls me, “changing the books cents. I guess I'll go back-there. phenes her !nr!!xnunnn,.\mless. perchance, enlloitoly: countoand hed HHEE A e e that are given as presents for those Of course, the girl at the doll counter the line is busy carrying in some other “His foot,” says a plain, kindly old that are wanted; but we make it a rule doesn't fall upon her and smite her. She fond mamma’s protests. 1”“ ',f,jv'm_'\;»'m:‘k,‘)'l"!“""'l"‘.::”';':“,‘f;;“ll ‘:‘;‘:: soul fn a shawl and bonnet, “is about now to exchange only for books. S0 doesn't smatch up despised dolly and rThese are just a few of the things o and kept [lhem several JaVS like yours—he has a bunlon, too. many people will réad @ book and then smash the new winter hat in, but— ibecoee ot gty gy . g R A R e e e " It is In the shoe department, and she bring it back to exchange for some- yyoyld you blame her if she did? Shop girl thoughtlessly. e e : is looking at holiday slippers, thin and thing in another department would you? One of the things she does for her Is ey e s There's the woman who 100ks &t cpgup put shiny. “Now if you would Poor twisted human nature, What oo iaiiv if the sniffy lady were the occasion her employment. It is beeause 1y find 1t? twent) even kinds of pink baby rib- i bon, pricing it by the belt, and then shop buys six cents’ worth of the blue. Ye she really exists; that's no exaggers one on I could tell if they'd fit him queer little tricks it plays! two hundred and forty-ninth of the day® of the Christmas shopper, and perhaps -me not knowin’ the size.” “If it lsn’t pure—If it makes my baby Do you think,” asks the doll shopper, because of her heedlessness and exac- The shoe man compromises by meas- _gjck, as It Gid once before, I'll bring it being a fond mamma, “do you really tions that the several thousand “extra” uring sole to sole on his foot; but the pack. I'l hold you responsible.” bullies think my Httle girl would like this blonde girls find employment during the Christ- - s . ribbon tion. ) P s B Pbon O e the confidential woman who NO¢ man, not being a shop girl, 15, the tiniest scrap of a woman. doll better than the brown-eved one? You mas shopping weeks, so that they in turn & str e Ceiis S o ull abant AR Bhe 1s mikity P T Ribs, MIthir atorg *“Ali our goods——" begins the girl at know, ¢he has brown eyes herself.” may become Christmas shoppers. s a f seethes yoR s #1e AXINE uBooks 4 the cleverest and the the candy counter. The girl at the doll counter does't How, I ask the girl at the ribbon ristmas for he band and sons and daugh- PN e he el ribbons? te and asks you how you think _I_)l'em#al girl in lhe‘ ‘fool< department, “Oh, yes, T kndw, but just remember knew, and this being the one hundred counter, ean a woman do hu Christmas s 0 ra e 1 theyll like their presents, whether you &T¢ Such popular Christmas presents nut [ say,” and she planks down her apd seventy-sixth time since a. m, shopping with the least wear and tear oot g e e O SN YON ink they'd rathay Dive vel and gyaen LDav We NASSDIst e NERRA RN - dultior - that 'her opinion has been called for, on herself and the shop girl” And here - s aioby making e and purple, and, of course, you TR In this department alone for the «will this candy keep fresh till reglly doesn't care, but she says sweetly, Is what she says: n g Pera PAS, | ave to say something, for a saleswo- Coliimas Fusht o e o/ ehustopsit S asks aninet hotwaensnf sullixis IGL HOW TO MAKE SHOPPING EASY. . A ¢ man's first duty is to be pleasant. -‘"‘: x “‘h“"‘ I ol “‘""l :":" ""“:P‘l" b"ek" T tures the . “WHY. the brown-eved one, if she has _ Make out a Nst of the articles you of st vhisper: € new s 'S - S 4 v, ma m,” ven h 2 - 2 There's the woman who reaches Gio M0 WRIIPETS o O 3. brown eyes. want to buy. s 1 ple or the buyers girl to madam, who ought to know for Set down ihe prices you are willis Ve-es, m-m-umn. That's so, but—well, I guess 1 take the blonde avll, just for > Get up early in the nv over your customer's shoulder, tilts her é . . i oither cer herself, being by all outward signs a hat musses her hair ‘and grabs the. ar. |} M sure Idon't know either, for aver, hersy & by & to pay—your momey lmit. my shoulder a lean-faced, anxious veteran housewifg, “but we can take, sy d asks questions—and she's ticle you are 3 wn\l:lg her ";" l"f YOUr L oman s trying to buy “The Aristocrat your order and send it to you fresh.” the contrast. _ Get your. breakfast before leavim ? ; more artful than she needs to be, hand, or. worse still, out of the cus- ", ‘n \ el Table” and at my “No, I want to take it with me. It The real orgy of the Christmas shopper, _ =0 " for w ve no objections at all to tell. tomer's. It's strange Hoge mpny. of HEF. 4 S e ko tra" girl fs would have to go by train and by stage, After she gets dway from the ribbon, the "‘(’_';' N e e ot S A - our things in stock are m. there are in the world. : carnestly urging Amiel's Journal as “a and the expressage would be—" the China, the jewelry, the neckwear and the e Taa AN aie i 2 She s up a lot of time There's the woman who gets angry o' ML S0 L Qetails that avall nothing dribbling on, Dbric-a-brac departments, is in the toy de- “ble- ot Sl S0 SR PRtienPET. you far pat HAHEE S 00 WALTS (he girl in the boox “Is that all you give for a pound” bartment and among the Christmas tree *MIeswomen fre W - T ¢ " “ fetion,” says o Ton e Telits INing St iy, SEIAFfneht 18 whEt We ucll st of, miors §i MMapgenl Iy Jem i, e : . 4 2 3 , and most 6f our customers don't know counter's end. “Well, if that'’s the oOvera depleted purse, she reaches a state ten, when she finally decides !0 some one else and wants to know b0t Cone unless, of course, case D'l take my money and zo else- In which she doesn’t care whether her some of the ma- Where, well, say, the art department . .. .. ¢or some special book. When Where” and the candy girl wearily hat is on straight or not so long as the does it i You tell her. ‘What! she says, "SR TNy suggest some- Pours the scoopful back: thing she wants fs in sight and she can e yards,’ ‘That isn’t where it was }he last time thing. Many of the customers know There are 250 different Kinds of dolls to point it out over the shoulder of the shop- ©veT™ ¢ . 1 was here. Second floor: FHave they ., ¢yine upout books. . They are not be had at Christmis time—even more, per in frout of her. When you zet to u department -.u Tl take TWQ silkoline there? Because if they havew't | o ol ng (hey are buying and they range from ome cent to $%5 in It is in the toy department that she fOF What yaow wani; dow’t examine SAY I Idont want to go up.’ There are about o€ 00 UGN iy fona. of prlee; yet. so the sirl at the doll counter makes conditions and lays down the law SYeFYUMag there and confuse yourself 100,000 of her. 1 think, and she belon&s ,..ging With them we ask whether tells me, every woman who IS shopping about delivering taings. She buys Tam- Dem't tell the salexwomar your trou= to the floorwalker’s troubles, but’ we ;o pook is for @ man or a woman, a for dolls, and there are from fifty to five my's coaster and Nellie's doll carriuge ten bles. She doesu fell vou fews: In order. Be sure you ure feellng well. If you are wot don't shop that day. start out iu a good humeor; you will have trouble enough before the day is he girl the ribbon counter smi the ornaments. Tired, impatient, panicky cen't Lol her Sund boy or a ‘girl, and try to find out some- hundred of her for each shop girl in that days before Christmas and says to the Get a tramsfer whem you hegin, your g One happy Christmastide in Chicago ining of the person’s tastes and inter- 'depattment, Comés up to the counter and shop girl. so the shop girl suys to me: shopping, sud it watil yom duish. safe t L to: miteh fhe Fibbon, and i 1 floorwalker near one of the en- osts—then we try to pick out some- asks for “a dolL” “Now, be sure not to send it to-morrow. It will save (e time 2nd trouble of ¢ ea he any more. There, really isn’t, tranees in a big department store went thing that will suit. In her secret heart, so says the girl Send 1t the day before Christmas—just waiting for chaage, makiag out slips. 4 FORMMCL MPNS B ot ah By mad from answering Christmas shop- “Oh, you needn't laugh,” she flashes at the doll counter, who knows whereof about dark. What! you won't send it the givias addresses amd walting for par- 1 rown to be we're here to sell our stock, not to hold pers’ questions. In his padded cell he swiftly, “we can select more suitable she speaks, every one of those women day before Christmas! Why not, I'd ilke ceis. gibbered answer: The notion counter hooks nine times out of ten than the knows, at least in a general way, what to know? Oh, yes; I'd forgotten that it Remember. if you doa’t de your “There’s the woman who comes to in the rear”; “silverware on the left”: people who are buying. kind of a doll she wants and how much comes on Sunday this year. Well, then, shopping at 10 p. m. the saleswomen ger stores match things to a shade. Sometimes “glove counter on the right, madam”: “Many of the Christmas books are she means to pay for it. But will she send it Saturday, the 23d, and not until will not have to be on duty te wait oa n 10,000 she doesn’t bring her samples, and she “umbrellas upstairs,” etc, etc, and bought by the cover and the price—a tell? No, indeed! dark—so Tommy won't see it coming in. yom at that hour. hat in the dow