Omaha daily bee., 1885-03-06
FREAKS AT THE COUNTER.
Abscnt-Niindcd Ladies' Make Strange
Exchanges.
New York journal.

New York journal.
VNuE LADY WHO BOUGHT STOCKINGS AND
l. inadv rtently took from the counter In Boutl-
here, ga ST., Monday afternoon, o u ud belonging
TO anotner customer Is kindly requested to return it
to the clerk in that store.
The mysterious lady who had bought
stockings, as advertised in q morning
paper, and inadvertently carried away a
customers mutf did not appear at Boutil-
ller's ct ire yesterday, aud probably spent
the day in wonderit G where she got the
muff.
mistakes of this kind often occur"
said an aged floor walker In a large up.
town dry goods shop yesterday. 'tTbey
are neither kleptomaniacs nor THE zoe.
They are the freaks of absent.n' inded
customers. One day / saw a respectable
old lady put on another wom9n1s muff,
ehawl and spectacler, take the othtr
woman's parasol and bund.s and start
out.
"She discovered her mistake when sho
got to the door and care busting back,
saying che was thinking about a new
Bonnet she had seen in q shop window on
Fourteenth street and was starting down
to see it, and picked up the articles in a
h~alt-consciolls way, supposing they were
her own, She made pyofuse apologies
and l have no doubt that this explsns-
ton was true.
Zone day there were two very hand.
some young ladies standing at the Bloom
of Youth and 'Lily-of the Valley counter
over there. Each one had a red plush
porte-monnaie. Both porte-monnales
lay on the bonnter, By mistake each
lady got the cther's porte.monnaie. Now
1t happened that each had started cut
with a $20-bill, had purchased the same
articles and had the aame amount of
change.
"Well when one of the ladies' opened
her pc rt-monnaie after che hal retrrned
home to see If her change was all right
she found three letters In 1t .igned by
her husband, very tender love letters.
There was no address OF any of them
The wife trisd to think when she had re-
Guided that she had had them for como
time.
This lady had In her po,tmonnaie two
letters, which of course the other lady
had. They were addressed, but not
signed. She recognized them as being
In the handwriting Of her husband.
Each letter began: ''Dar,ing Mary"
ETC.. Now, her name is Mary, and she
at first thought they were come old let.
ters from her husband. She found that
three other letters that ought to be in
the portmonnaie were missing, and then
abe knew she had exchanged po1tmon-
nsies at the store.
'Now, neither woman wanted to re-
turn tho letters, but each had a Jealous
curiosity to know who the other IN
was, 80 they advertised. They met one
afternoon at the store ard exchanged
portmonuaies, but did not exchange the
l~etters, each r~emark'ny, Il do not
know how my lett ara got into your port.
monpaie.' They were both very hand
some and it WAS q singular meeting.
Sometimes customers exchange bun
dies by accident, and then we have CON-
plants that cloaks or dresses which fitted
at the store do not fit when they get
home. One day the fat m Of a
Bowery show came here and had q seal
skin sacque made to order. When she
called for it a week afterwards there was
a slender Murray Hill girl standing al the
counter. She had bought q sealskin
aacque, and by some accident got the
others sacque. The Murray Hill girl
YVES fairly buried when she got home and
tried on the fat woman's sea'skin sacque,
and the fat woman came back stormlng
and complained that her sealskin aacque
wasn't big enough to 60 around her arm.
I'VE sent a nan up on Murray Hill to
explain matters and bought a hundred
tickets to the fat woman's benefit, and Sd
we rectified the mis take"