St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-12
THE GIFT OF BEAUTY.
Young Ladies With Shapely Hands
Not Popular at Glove Counters.
Wanted--A Pretty, BIue-Eyed Clerk
as a Drawing Card for Trade.

''My hands were too small and pretty and
was discharged"
The speaker was pretty, modest girl OF
! about 10, who had been connected with
prominent and popular glove store on a
street not far from Nicollet avenue. She
had only been there short time when the
proprietor discharged her. Il 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
glrts bitter expression, asked the glove
dealer about it, and received the following
reply;
we never had a nicer, more modestand
satisfactory girl in our store, and if there
was single place vacant we would have
Kept her. But there was not. She was a
glove filter, and her hands were entirely too
small and pretty. You seem astonished, but
will explain. Nine out of ten ladies who
come here for gloves have hands neither
as small nor as pretty as that young
girls. The result was they found it dis
tasteful to buy from her and went else
where for gloves. Nothing pleases a lady
more than TO find, in buying gloves that
her hands are smaller and more shapelv
than those of the saleSwoman, and my ex-
perience has taught me that women will,
other things being equal, buy where they
md that to be the case. That young lady
mas the hands of duchess and put to shame
half OF the fashionable young ladies who
come IN here. Yes, agree with you that
II Is decided shame, but we could not
help it."
BEAUTY AT \ DISCOUNT.
The statements of this merchant were
a m oh how crIO
at least twice month. She wears a six
and,a-halt Jouvin herself, but says: s'Now
my hand Is about medium, neither large nor
suaLl, out know how it is to go into a
store and have siX-and-a-half handed YOU
by dainty Saleswoman who can easily
stretch ve-and-three-quarters over her
hand. would not be so foolish as to with
draw my patronage on that account, but
know OF ladies who would. 1t is too bad
that girl should lose her place on that ac-
count, yet don't doubt the story you tell
me-"
At some of the millinery stores. however,
pretty girls are in demand and stylish ones
are paid extra prices. The reason is OBJ
vious. A lady customer goes in to look for
hat. The stylish shop girl covers her
pretty head with desirable article, and
turns herself about to display the effect.
Everything looks well on her and the Gus
toner IS enraptured with the bonnet. She
fondly lmagineS it will look as
stylish on her own Uranium, and
perhaps never learns that it does not. But
sales are quickly made and the pretty Law
figure reaps her rewards. Handsome girls
are also used to display cIoaks and shawls
and other wraps, which appear to best adj
vantage on their Jundesque forms and sal
| aries to correspond are paid them. These
are cases in which
BEAUTY IS AT A PREMIUM.
A case came under the observation of a
GLOBE reporter last week, that showed
very forcibly how mankind, in the maScu-
line sense, is lied by beauty by single
hair" The proprietor of literary depot
wanted an assistant, and was inquiring
where an eligible person might be found.
The reporter suggested that an abundance
of such talent was lying around loose, but
the quantity was diminished when the pro-
prietOr Said
''Oh! want a young lady, and pretty
one, too"
This newsdealer was sharp one and
deep student of human nature. Only a
pretty girl would do him, and his course of
reasoning was this: 1.-THE patrons of my
depot are all men. Not one lady in a hun
dred wants the daily papers of the country
or even the Illustrated periodicals. A
pretty girl is an attraction and men who
come once will certainly come again. Once
pleased they are steady pat
rOns. Oh, I've tried it and know
all about it, and l can give you
| several cases in point. Last week. while
the Mexican editors were here, one of them
came in my store and bought a Chicago
paper. l had pretty girl there then and
this descendant of MOntezeuma became in
terested in her. He came again, and. sir.
during the short stay of that delegation in
Minneapolis he was in there six times. He
not only made purchase each time, but
liberal one, and directed his compatriots to
my place. l was sorry when they left the
city. This case is only one of many could
give you. know very well of dozens of
young men who came in and bought papers
or stationery only as
A MERE PRETEXT
to get to see and talk to my pretty clerk"
docs she chat with customers?"
''Only on business topics. If she went
further than that it wouldn't do. A Gus
toner will sometimes come in and want a
seaside novel without knowing exactly
what he wants. This may be pretenSe,
but 1t results in my pretty clerk dis
cuSsing the merits and dement's of
certain authors. That is about as far as
she goes in a conversational way But. nv
dear sir, don't you know man likes to sim
ply look at pretty girl. Take my Next
can customer for instance He could
scarcely speak ten words in English, but he
makes it up in looking with those bright
black eyes of his"
What other points of advantage are
there in pretty girl for a clerk?"
''They are too numerous to mention, as
you newspaper men say. When you are at
leisure come around to my store and see
how it works. But wait until I get my
pretty girl for clerk, any sprightly, attrac-
tive girl will do-pretty blue-eyed angel of
about eighteen years of age preferred"