St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-21
TIE Ladies Didn,t Rmu The G,.npes.

Both ladies were elegantly dressed as their
! iveried coachman brought the horses to a
b alt in front of a retail grocery at Seven
c, 1rners one bright sunny morning last week.
O tcourse, the waiting clerk came out to the
Gu RIB stone to receive from the ladies what
ey, ,r order they might desire to leave. They
wis he'd to get some grapes. The clerk ac-
corr iingly returned to the store and brought
out two small, realty arranged boxes of this
fruit. One of them was filed with large,
dark purple Isabellas and the other
the mall reddish brown grape, that is
know l everywhere as the Delaware. When
the DO xes were uncovered by the obliging
and OF sequious clerk the ladies each took
one of the small boxes and began expressing
their a, imiration at the beauty and attrac-
tiveuess of the fruit, and their delight at the
rich ora, ,e perfume that eXaled from it, As
was matt raj, they began to compare the re-
spective merits OF the two specimens of
grapes. n al carelessy and languidly each
pulled sol ue of the grapes from the stems
aud tast, ID the fruit. 1t was diff
cult for them to decide which,
in their opinion, was the best,
the large. ark purple ones, or the small,
one and the the other, and the choice first
fell upon tn, dark purple and then upon the
small. reddi. Il brown fruit, and the more
these ladies Red them the more they fell
into doubt as 10 which was the best. By this
time the fri III was pretty well picked to
pieces Whei 1 tAe clerk first removed the
covers the era represented a smooth, level
surface aud aooion very attractive.
After these elegantly dressed ladies
had finished the ir samping the grapes had
sorry appearance !. In one part OF the boxes,
holes had been 10 down into lHNe fruit and
the bejewelled fin gel o. these delicate ladies
had drawn then n'e plump attractive
grape, which look ed Il 'ough it might de-
termine the test while in other part OF the
boxes ragged stems from which the fruit
had been pulled, protrIde, \, and the con-
tents of the box were pulled everyway and
wholly plovCd up by these aides delicate
hands. In the mean tin e the poor
clerk stood upon the sidewalk Il wing 10 smile
and appearing to ne pleased, W! uie be say
two boxes of grapes being mauled and wholly
ruined He did not know wha TO say or
what to do. These ladies were ha udsomely
dressed and belonged to the best society.
Everything about them was rich and elegant,
and diamonds sparkled from their deheate
hands. The livery of the cOachm. NJ was
rich, subdued, and elegant, and very 81 n 'sh.
Everything about the establishment as
such as 20 indicate great quality au,
wealth. Under such subduing eircumstaI ices
what was the poor clerk to dol That was |
what be wanted to know. 1t would not do !
for him TO suggest TO those ladies that { ley
were running the sale of thnse two boxes OF
grapes. That would have been regarded a :
an insult to the occupants of the csrria se.
At the same time he felt that it was nee es-
sary to put stop to such genteel, graceful, j
well bred, well dressed vandalism. III he I
could have known then that these ladies
would. have taken the grapes often this
treating them he could have been satisfied ant
would have had little cause to complain
This, however, he could not know, and Jus
here was the trouble. The ladies soon =
moved all doubt from his mind by l2uguid "
returning the boxes, with the rem ark II at
they were not quite satisfied and wou Id 10 Ok
further. They were much obliged, nd re-
GREETED having troubled the clerk. J he ar
rage rolled away aud the poo I title
clerk was left standing on the side
walk, so intensity mad Z rat he
could not speak. This was very