Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-04
BEAUTY BEHIND THE COUNTER
Her Hands Were Too small and Pretty
for Glove Store.
From the 81. Paul GIo6


From the 81. Paul Globe.
"My hands were too small and pretty,
and was discharged"
The speaker was pretty, modest girl
of about 10, who had been connected with
a prominent and popular glove store on a
street not tar from Nicollet avenue. She
had only been there a short time when the
proprietor discharged her.
"a am very sorry" he said, "but we
would lose many of our lady customers
if you stay. Your hands are entirely too
small"
A Globe reporter, who had heard the
girls bitter expression, asked the glove
dealer about it, and received the following
reply:
'ssWe never had a nicer, more modest
aDd satisfactory girl in our store, and If
there was single place vacant we would
have kepther. BUT there was not. She
was glove filter, and her hands were en-
tlrely too small and pretty. You seem
astOnished, but | will explain. Nine out
OF ten ladies who come here for gloves
have hands neither rs small nor as pretty
as that young girls. The result was they
found it distasteful to buy from her, and
went elsewhere for gloves. Nothing
pleases a lady more than to find in buying
gloves that her hands are smaller and
more sbapely than those Of the saleswo-
man, and my experience has taught me
that women will, other things being equal,
buy where they find that to be the case.
That young lady has the hands of a
duchess and puts to shame halfof the
fashionable young ladies who come in
here. Yes, | agree with you that ii is a
decided shame, but we could not help it,"
The statements of this merchant were
confirmed by a lady who changes her
gloves at least twice a month. She wears
a six and a half Jouvin herself, but says:
CHOW, my hand IS about medium,
neither large or small, but know how it
is TO go into store and have a six and a
half handed you by a dainty saleswoman
who can easily stretch five and three
quarters over her hand. | would not be
so foolish as to withdraw my patronage on
that account, but / know of ladies who
would. 1t is too bad that girl should
lose her place on that account, yet | don't
doubt the story YOU tell me-"
At some of the millinery stores. how
ever, pretty girls are in demand and
stylish ones are paid extra prices. The
reason is obvious. A lady customer goes
in to look for hat. The stylish shop girl
covers her pretty head with a desirable
article and turns herself about to display
the effect. Everything looks well on her
and the customer is enraptured with the
bonnet. She fOndly imagines it will look
as stylish on her own Uranium, and per
haps never learn that it does not. But
sales are quickly made, and the pretty
lay figure Teaps her reward. Handsome
girls are also used to display cloaks and
shawls and other wraps, which appear to
best advantage on their JunOesque forms,
and salaries to correspond are paid them
These are cases in which beauty is ut a
premium.
A case came under the observation Of a
Globe reporter last week that showed very
forcibly how mankind, in the masculine
sense, is sled by beauty by single haIr."
The proprietor of literary depot wanted
an assistant, and was inquiring where an
eligible person might be found. The re-
porter suggested that an abundance of
such talent was lying around loose, but
the quantity was diminished when the
proprietor said:
sob! want q young lady, and pretty
one too"
The newsdealer was a sharp one and a
deep student of human nature. Only a
pretty girl would do him, and his course
of reasoning was this: 'sThe patrons of
my depot are all men. Not one lady in a
hundred wants the daily papers of the
country, or even the illustrated periodi-
Gals. A pretty girl is an attraction, and
men who come once will certainly come
again. Once pleased they are steady
patrons. Oh, I've tried it and know all
about itrV