New York, Nov. 25.
It has been conclusively proved to entire satisfaction that holiday split is not dependent pon climate conditions. Here, with Thanksgi upon us, mosquitoes are humming amiably, roses are blooming and the thermometer registers 73a record temperature for this time of the! year. Tt seems most unfair to Kill turkeys at what must appear them to be the mating season, but a holiday is a holiday for a" that, Already the stores are thronged with Christmas shoppers, obedient to the admonition which is thrust at dignities and discomforts which they encounter during rash hours, And did the gentle sisters take jsdvantage of the good offices placed lat their disposal? They didn't, Tt seems that they had become 0 much attached to the idea of looking Jdown from their strap-hung heights into their brethren, parked solidly seats behind newspapers,. that the thought of forming a hen party a car of their own appeared ob-Jiectionable. So the scheme. was fsbandoned and women continued to Jenjoy the martyrdom of the subway Hi them from omnipresent - warnings: Shop early and avoid the rush." Once within the "enchanted zone which has. come into being by the Tage of the department store gen, itis. dificult to realize that an Jeconomic cataclysm has occurred fand that the slogan of the day is "Don't let the Depression get You.
Perhaps, after the year is over Jand comparative sales records are made, it will be discovered that the factual buying was not as heavy this [year as it has been in others, but! the member of women who 0 10) Tock and exclaim has certainly not diminished.
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