The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-07-17
WHAT WAS ONTHE CARD,
IL Overpowered New York Floor Wake
and Gained Attention.

IL OVerpoWered n New York Floor Walker
and Gained Attention.
] went into a shop last week about
O'Clock in the morning, when it was pre-
sumed, if ever, would get willing service.
1t was then before the clerks would be
fatigued, says the New York correspond
ent of The Hartford C0Urqnt. I asked for
black surah waists, ready made. A plainly
dressed little lady, whose cotton gloves
even to regenerate eyes We're betray-
ing, and, however, got there be-
fore me, and was in quest of the
same article. Two young women, to whom
the duty OF selling waists was assigned,
were talking earnestly. They were pretty
girls-a blonde and a brunet-dressed
charmingly in fresh spring ginghams.
'Surah waists" inquired the blonde.
You'd take Sc. We amt 90 no 36-and,
as | was coming along, he said stop a
minute, and | said no. / was late already,
an he said - will you kindly look and
see whether there is any So" said the
lady. "Thirty-six is your number" re-
piled the blonde beauty, impatiently,
San we're out of SAN / told him to
get along, an he said he would pay the
fine If there was one to pay" "Wil
YOU look into your stock for IS p again in
last night, an we're not going 10 be haul
ing over things TO look at what amt there"
put in the brunei. "Oh, what did you do
then? He's awful handsome for dark
man" Young woman, said the little
would-be customer, with a calmness and
severity that astonished me as much as il
field mouse had turned to rend me,
you strike me as remarkably useless per-
sons to be drawing wages, and think il
my duty to mention my opinion to a floor
walker"
This blood-curdling threat so astonished
me, who would as soon have mentioned
death in the presence OF Louis Mi as
fioOr-walker TO a shop-grl that / turned
my head away to avoid what l supposed
would be their terror, anger and conster-
nation. What then were my emotions
when the brunette deliberately sang out:
will you kindly walk this way, Alr. Co
hen?" and a large, somewhat portlv gen.
tleman, in a Prince Albert coat, who had
been treading his mill up and down
since my arrival, arrested his steps at the
counter. "This here lady" said the
blonde, was asking for waists and none
OF what we had in stock fitted her." You
neither looked in your stock, nor took my
measure" said the lady, "and your man,
ner was very impairment" is that So
Miss Rice?' queried the man OF the
brunei, with an engaging smile. no, in
deed, said this young lady, shes been a
hinderin' of US and taking our time, talk
ing an goin' on" "Then, madam" said
the foor-walker, 81 can't make a COM
plant, since there are two to your one.
These young ladies have been here for
long time, and / shouldn't like to do 'em
injustice. 1 guess you'd better move on"
Whether indeed, the moral courage of
your correspondent would have enabled
her to bring her testimony TO bear on that
of the customer with the cotton gloves we
will never know. The old lady put her
hand in an Old-fashiOned reticule and
pulled out a written not engraved card.
What was on that card must also remain
mystery to usall, for l did not decipher il.
But it had the effect on the healthy He
braic gentleman that might have been pro-
duced by the tiniest stab of a poisoned
arrow. He turned deathly pale. He STAN
mered ont an apology that was a cry for
mercy. He then turned on the girls, and
l need not tell you here that our despot
was a coward in his dispute OF them. 1
only know that lost my desire to try on
waists if the frightened, sobbing girls were
to serve me, and that as / came away [
saw the slight figure OF the little lady, now
terrible in her anger, suggesting Mrs. Be
Done BY as You Did in water Babies"
making for the private office"