WHEN MAN GOES SHOPPING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 924, 17 September 1910, Page 11

WHEN MAN GOES SHOPPING.

1 ■'As .shoppers,'what'.awful failures men; generally are,./ 'says / an Australian •writer... 'And they father 'prido th'ein- : selves; upon /it'.. Their ' one idea -.when, they;enter,.' aV'shbp'is' tp'; get out' again' as ..quickly as :; they/can/, ■! They laugh at. women,' ; whoJ''fuss'and'both'cr.,M. tremendously, before thoy. b'uy'\anythiiuf." But Goldsmith .- knew' better than to niako one 'of the/Vicar's girls .invest .'■in that gross of.; green' spectacles. Mose's might do it, but Moses's :.sisters, never. It is rarely that a woman buys a pig in a poke, but I ■ heard of. a':.ease inwhich a . man- "did.. so'.- recently.,.' He': was ;a boundary-rideV out .'west,' and. though lui lived in a hut or humpy, everything, "within that cot.was wondrous neat, and clean.'lt■ was.-his • joy..- and delight, to have the place spick and span, natty, and comfortable—rather a •remarkable thing -/for ':• aback-block bachelor,; accbfding : :to all aqcounts.' Ho perused all; the; furnishing catalogues." and constantly commissioned the "boss to send to, town, for, thing's 'usually, considered luxuries in.tho/busli (except at the.,,homestead).';/..His. friends chatfed him; but cdiild . not.' help admiring his :little- ".shanty." ; One. day; the boundary-) :rider)..was 'in Sydnfey; ai}d :'i_n shop' window saw a cushion which just matched his eiderdown. (He had a gorgeous eiderdown.)" He went in and'purchased it on /sight. ; . Meeting, some cronies 'in an- hotel near. by. later,,he 'unwrapped his precious parcel, to snow his fine, new travelling -cushion.;': It was only then that' ho : discovercd .it to be, : not a cusTiiou, but an immense : tea-cosy I .; '