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The eattle man reads the stock market, the lady reads the society page, the earnest student reads the editorials, everybody reads the .eomies, and, ofeojiree, the worn#* look for bargains in the ads.
The advertisements are part of my favorite reading. Take for instance, the one of Gimbel’s in Sunday’s Times. There was an enormous double-page spread on some copies of French originals that the store had for sale. The ad explained that the seams were the same, and that even an expert would not be able to study and find the difference in these marvelous copies made exactly like the wonderful French originals. Down in the corner were two shadowy figures of a man and a woman, with this caption—very small—“The story goes, in case you haven’t cut your first tooth, that the French Chamber of Deputies was debating woman’s suffrage. When one liberal soul pointed out that there is very little difference, «|9§ter all, between the sexes, a fellow deputy leapt ttr his. feet and Bhouted with gusto, “Viva la difference’!”
Another ad In the paper announced that mink coats were on sale at the astoundingly low prices of |1589 and $1289 (and it’s no typographical error .that decimals are omitted). Reminds us of the story of the wife who used to show her husband all*- the expensive items advertised in the paper that that she didn’t even want—proving how much money she was saving for him daily!
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Fall has fell. Before long the nights will be silent, with the insect world hibernating. Wearing of shoes will be a task of the boys, whose free toes must again face imprisonment. Mornings will be crisp and the covers will be thrown back reluctantly to push nice warm feet into cold slippers. Oh, well, there will be compensations. I’ll try to locate them. One of
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