Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-05-17
MAUDIE AND FANNIE.
A Monday Morning Conversation Over
heard In n Dry y-Goods Store.

MAUDIE AND FANNIE.
A Monday Morning Conversation Over
heard In Dry-Goods Store.
If you have any desire to know what
the salesladies" in most of our dry
goods stores do on Sunday, you can
crafty your curiosity y going shop
ping on Monday at about the time
when the crowd is greatest and the
services of the salesladies are most
needed. 1t is then that they become
most communicative with each other
and coldly and haughtily indifferent to
the wants of purchasers. 1t is then
that Miss Maudie Bangs says to Miss
Fannie Frizzletop:
~ had lovely time yesterday"
$50 did l." responds Fannie, cheer
lily.
"You know Freddy Fopbrain, don't
you p
"Oh, yes; nice little fellow isn't
he P"
"Just splendid Well, he came
around in the afternoon with the mob
biest turnout, and took memo, we
have no more zephyrlike that sample. y
"A shade darker will do, )" you say,
but Miss Maudie calmly ignores your
presence until she has said
"And we had lovety time. Drove
all over the city and had pound of
carmels and-no, we haven'ta shade
any thing near like your sample.
She has made this discovery without
looking at your samples or her zeph-
yrs, and politely turning her back to
you, proceeds
"Tom Slack came in in the evening
and Libbie Marsh and her fellow and
oh, Libbie's got splendid fellow"
"Who is he P''
"Oh, forgot his name, but he's
ever so tony and has lovely mus
tache, and--no, we hav'n't German
town in that shade either. We hav'n't
any thing in that shade.
This is sad with a degree of as
perity calculated to serve as u rebuke
and reproach to you for interrupting
the conversation, but you hold your
ground and say:
II think | see some Saxony that
will do-that dark cardinal to your
right"
"Oh. that? That isn't at all like
your sample, and-what did you do
yesterday, FannieP"
"Oh, l slept until ten o'clock and
then l gDt up and went to church, be-
cause had my new olive green suit
to wear. You haven't seen the hat yet,
have youp Oh, it's lovely! Prettiest
suit ever had and it fits me splen-
didly, and"
Ibid you decide on plush or wat
cred silk for the side panelsP"
"Oh, l took the silk; it's all the
rage now, and it looks lovely"
Il like the silk best, for it-did you
say you would take skein of thisP"
You have said so six timts, but Miss
Maudie has not condescended to hear
you.
Yes you say, decidedly, 81 witl
take skein of this.
Cash! cash! cashr' shrieks the sales.
lady. Here, cash!-you didn't stay
in all afternoon with new suitp"
"Well, ! should smile not! l started
right after dinner and kept on the &c
until ten last night, and had a per-
fectly elegant time. Went over tc
Sadie Kent's, and while was there
Jimmie Fresh and Bob Callow came in
and Sadie and | made them 90 out ant
get us pound of candy apiece, and
No, ma am; we are all out of chenille O
that shade"
"Did you see Mrs. Potterp" asked
Maudie, ignoring the cash girl, who ha'
been waiting five minutes foryour bun
die and cash.
II guess l did," says Fannie. with
alacrity. Frank Howard took me
You know himP Don't youP Oh, he;
a splendid fellow-he's head clerk al
the ribbon counter at Plush g. Sat.
tins We saw her in Loyal Love, had
two-dollar seats, and he came for me il
a carriage"
"Oh, my! How fine we're get
tingw
"Ain't we, though? l tell you bu
we just spread it on thick. Frank wor,
full dress and l took off my hat anC
wore my white ball dress with six louell
big pink roses and -"
You take your bundle from the casl
girl yourself and leave Maudie and Fan
ME talking it out.-Detroit Free Press
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