Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-12-10
IN cHIcAeo's SHOW WINDOWS.
The Displays Made to Attract the At
tention of the Crowds of Passers-by.


tention of the Crowds of Psssers-by.
There is q craze among merchants for
attracting To their show windows the
attention of crowds that surge along the
streets. Displays Of copies Of illustrated
papers are quite common. A clothing
firm incurred considerable expense in the
purchase of q set Of rare comic pictures,
Another placed in its window a clock
machine which dropped q printed card
and rang a bell every minute, but the
crowd did not seem TO appreciate either
the bell OF the poetry printed upon the
cards, and the stay of the machine was OF
short duration. \ Madison street tobacco
mist has made a hit with a comic figure
which stands in the window and filings a
package of tobacco over his head from
hand to hand. The dude manikin or au-
tomato cigarette smoker displayed by a
tobacco firm on Dearborn street some
months ago drew as big audiences as
Booth.
Another establishment on Madison
street makes a speciality Of pictures and
souvenirs Of the great fire. Furniture
dealers have attracted much attention to
their windows by displaying therein beds
beautifully furnished and with dummy
human beings snuggled under the beau
tiful coverletS. A Fifth avenue MGR
chant has in his show window a pretty
cataract in miniature, with real water. j"
\ butter store on the North Side displays
a comely young woman churning with
the old perpendicular, arm-tiring dasher
which reminds passers-by Of hours of
w~rctchedneSs in their bOyhOOd days.
Il rr,,l .1.,la- ~ f1,a r.pr,ar az naarhnrn
md Madison streets shows the skin Of a
Brazilian anaconda and boa constructor;
also an elephants hide. A restaurant
keeps a living lamb and rabbit in a little
box just behind its plate glass front. y
natter gifted with a Satirical vein hangs
mp a placard announcing: "A Suit Of
Clothes and an OvercOat Given AWAY
With Every Hat
\ State street jeweler causeS chills to
run up and dOnw the sensitive backs Of
superStitious people by showing them
specimens of cremation urnS in which the
ashes Of ones ancestors or mOther-in-law
may be neatly kept upon the parlor man
tie. No Chicago milliner has rs yet imi-
tatcd the New York extreme Of placing
in the show window a beautiful maiden
not Of wax, but Of real flesh and blood,
attired in the latest from toe TO top
Knot, hut a young ChicaGoan has placed
upon the market a window device which
should make his fortune. In passing .
store where this invention is employed
70 attract Your attention you hear a
sharp tapping upon the glass. Could
anything be better designed to stay your
steps and turn your head How natural
90 think the tapping meant for you alone
-precurSing an invitation 10 take some
hing. or to dine, or at least have a chat
md > good story with some old friend OF
whose business location you were I'M
aware But on looking you behold in
stead Of the face Of u friend a blue paste
board policeman about two feet high,
hugging the glass as if it were a saloon
stove on a january night. In his hand
S n miniature club, with which he taps
the pane, and Just beneath his we'll
s1rned figure is the appropriate placard:
We Knock Them All Out On Prices. -
Chicago Herald.