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DIRECTIONS
TO
LADIES
FOR
SHOPPING,
Shopping has become such a sport that there are extra incentives like
JCPenney coupons with Ebates.com to draw ladies in.
SHOPPING
is
the
amusement
of
spending
money
at
shops.
It
is
to
a
lady
what
sporting
is
to
a
gentleman;
somewhat
productive,
and
very
chargeable.
Sport,
however,
involves
the
payment
of
one's
own
shot;
shopping
may
be
managed
by
getting
it
paid
for.
Ride
all
the
way
till
you
come
to
the
shopping-ground
in
a
coach,
if
you
can;
in
an
omnibus,
if
you
must;
lest
you
should
be
tired
when
you
get
there.
If
you
are
a
lady
of
fashion,
do
not
get
out
of
your
carriage;
and
when
you
stop
before
your
milliners,
particularly
if
it
is
a
cold,
wet
day,
make
one
of
the
young
women
come
out
to
you,
and
without
a
bonnet,
in
her
thin
shoes,
stand
on
the
kerb-stone
in
the
damp
and
mud.
The
best
places
for
shopping
are
fashionable
streets,
bazaars,
and
the
like.
Street-shopping
principally
elates
to
hosiery,
drapery,
and
jewellery
of
the
richer
sort.
Bazaar
and
Arcade-shopping,
to
fancy
articles,
nick-nacks,
and
perfumery.
In
street-shopping
walk
leisurely
along,
keeping
a
sharp
look-out
on
the
windows.
In
bazaar-shopping,
beat
each
stall
separately.
Many
patterns,
colours,
novelties,
conveniences,
and
other
articles
will
thus
strike
your
eye,
which
you
would
otherwise
have
never
wanted
or
dreamt
of.
When
you
have
marked
down
some
dress,
or
riband,
for
instance,
that
you
would
like,
go
and
inquire
the
price
of
it;
haggle,
demur,
examine,
and,
lastly,
buy.
You
will
then
be
asked
"whether
there
is
any
other
article
to-day?"
Whether
there
is
or
not,
let
the
shopman
show
you
what
wares
he
pleases
;
you
will
very
likely
desire
one
or
more
of
them.
Whatever
you
think
very
cheap,
that
buy,
without
reference
to
your
need
of
it
;
it
is
a
bargain.
You
will
find,
too,
as
you
go
on,
that
one
thing
suggests
another;
as
bonnets-ribands
for
trimming,
or
flowers;
and
handkerchiefs-perfumery.
In
considering
what
more
you
want,
try
and
recollect
what
your
acquaintances
have
got
that
you
have
not;
or
what
you
have
seen
worn
by
strangers
in
going
along.
See
if
there
is
anything
before
you
superior
in
any
respect
to
a
similar
thing
which
you
have
already
;
if
so,
get
it
instantly,
not
reflecting
whether
your
own
will
do
well
enough.
You
had
better
finish
your
streets
before
you
take
your
bazaars
and
arcades;
for
there
the
shopping,
which
one
might
otherwise
call
cover-shopping,
though
excellent
sport,
refers
mostly
to
articles
of
no
manner
of
use
;
and
it
may
he
as
well
to
reserve
toys
and
superfluities
to
the
last.
Married
ladies,
when
they
have
laid
in
all
they
want
for
themselves,
are
recommended
to
show
their
thoughtfulness
by
purchasing
some
little
trifle
for
their
husbands,
who,
of
course,
will
have
to
pay
for
it
in
the
end.
Punch,
Jul.-Dec.
1844
Ladies
shopping
without
male
escort,
and
requiring
luncheon,
can
safely
visit
any
of
the
great
restaurants
—
care
being
always
taken
to
avoid
passing
through
a
drinking
bar.
In
some
cases
a
separate
room
is
set
apart
for
ladies,
but
there
is
practically
no
reason
why
the
public
room
should
be
avoided.
At
some
of
the
great
“omnium
gatherum”
shops,
and
at
institutions
such
as
South
Kensington
and
the
Royal
Academy
luncheon
can
be
obtained
while
several
confectioners
at
the
West-end
particularly
study
the
comfort
of
ladies.
Charles
Dickens
(Jr.),
Dickens's
Dictionary
of
London,
1879
The
Victorian
Dictionary
compiled
by
Lee
Jackson
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