Arizona silver belt., 1886-10-02
PUSHING TRADE.
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A tall man, with il hatchet face and a
nose SO thin that II barely separatoa his
keen, gray eyes, entered Grand street
store, drew package from u capacious
pocket Of his overcoat and said to a
polite clerk; "Somebody must have
marked theso shoes wrong. They ARE a
half size too large The clerk opened
the package, looked at the inelosed pair
of kid CATERS, and remarked ''Ah,
these are twos-and-a~half You want
twos," "No, don I, +" said the custom
er, with a sharp ring in his voice; VI
want number woS-and~a-half, but the
shoes must be half size smaller than
these.
Clerk--Whv, sir, these are twos-and-
a-half You can see for yourself The
mark Is plain enough.
Customer hut / have already told
you that tic mark is wrong, NV wife
has been wearing number twos-and-a-
half shoes for wears. / ought to know,
for / have lind to buy so many of them.
took these SHOES home the other day,
expecting that they would iit. of course,
and Es~have had to come back to ex-
change them because. rascallyIshoe-
maker put a wrong mark on thenr
ClGrk-~You must be mistaken, sir;
this house takes the greatest cara that
every thing sold is exactly what it il
represented I'd be. Our reputation
Customer Never mind soar repaia~
ttdn.. Itelhgou tlase shoes aresNo5 5.
Tel tfie dflothai pair d dstlf Aisg amailRf.
The polite salesman weft ih search Of
shoes Of the same trademark and soon
returned with two pairs which We're
marked -" and ~ Ia 3" He smiled
serenely on the customer as the latter
compared the shoes which he had taken
back to the store with each Of the other
pairs, There could be no mistake. The
pairs numbered - l-2n We're o. exactly
the same size. while the puc marked
''2'' were o half size smaller.
Customer these Ne. 2 shoes
will tit my wife. but / wish l'ou would
explain something. There tame near
being row in the family within my wife
said ] would have to take that pair Of
shoes back, aud to bo very sure that /
had not forgotten the size of hh foot /
looked at her old shoes and saw the No.
2 l-2 mark on them. Yet her old shoes
measured quarter of an inch less in
length than the new OPS
Clark--Were the other shoes bought
hereP
CustomeF-No. have boon buying
shoes for some years at Blanks, in the
Bowery.
Clerk--Ah, that may explain the diff
ference ! think they have a different
standard for working ut Blanks. You
see some women insist on buying shoes
half size too small for them, and when
they go 10 q store to bay for themselves
they can be satisfied until the salesman
crowds their four and a half foot into
four shoe, A woman who has worn
n four shoe viii not have il said that she
has 10 wear four and a half Now. ii
she has been buying her shoes at Blanks,
and she happens 10 come here for q pair,
she either gets TOURS that are COM
Portable on her feet, or she finds that
she can pinch her feet into threes~and-a-
half She viii be satisfied. anyhow, and
Blank won't sell her any more shoes,
Ii helps trade, don't you see?
The sharp features Of the customer
relaxed ia a smile which did not vanish
until he had departed from the store. -
NJ r. Tribune.