WOMEN AT THE SALES

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 40, 17 February 1933, Page 11

WOMEN AT THE SALES

-WONDERFULI" SAYS A.MAN.

"Lift going up. Gloves, stockings, lingerie, and remnants." "Women of all ages stepped into thelift. I, a mere man, followed them with aching feet an,d throbbing head" (writes a correspondent in the London "Daily Mail"). "We whirled into the realm of remnants. "Someone once wrote a song entitled 'Aren't Women Wonderful.' You never realise how wonderful they, are until you go shopping, with them on a sale day. The energy that women display when 8s 6d is reduced to 5s 3d is incredible. It is their stamina that is so astonishing. They start at 9 o 'clock in the morning and seem to spring out of the pavements as soon as the shop doors are opened. I watched them in the shops. They dodge from one counter to another, trying on gloves, measuring renuwnts, testing armchairs, arid., smelling 'soaps. Eap--idly they become loaded with, parcels. SOMETHING TOR FATHEB. ' "But the more the parcels accumulate the moro these women smile, and, having found a respite in the shoo department, they rush off at full speed to the pyjama department to buy something for father. And they go on until 7 o'clock at night. Here I should like to pay a tributo to • tho saleswomen.. They enter into tho spirit of the fes-. tival and go about with a perpetual smile that is a joy to behold. "I don't know why we men speak jeeringly of women at the sales. Every man ought to be mado to go ami watch them replenishing'the wardrobe at the minimum cost. No man could display such energy as his wife does at sale time. I know, for when I crawled into an omnibus exhausted after three hours of it, I sat near two women. One said to the other, 'It is only a few minutes to so-and-so's store.' Yes — women are wonderful."