Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-15
CHRONIC ..LooKERs.r
Fema.es Who Make the Lifc of Sh6p-
 Girls Uncomfortable.

Girls Uncomfortable. Here comes ''looker," said one l saleslady to another so loudly that her remark was overheard oy reporter, | who was standing at counter near by. |
 "Yes," said the person addressed, "and | she's got a fellow with her. too.' May be she will buy something, then, just to show her young man what an economical shopper she is" said the | | first speaker. | The young lady who was evidently | meant by the salesgirls was tine-looking, neatly dressed and, as far as appearance went, was certainly unobjectionable. So, | with some curiosity the reporter asked | the pretty girl waiting on him what was meant by calling that young lady a l "looker.'
 Why, don't you know?" said she, smiling. ''llow green you men are about shopping Every woman knows that a | locker is a woman who simply looks at goods, doesn't expect to buy any. puts you to all the trouble she can, asks you to cut off a sample, and then says she will come in again tomorrow. And so she | does, to bother some one else.
 "A 1ooker,'" continued the salesgirl loquaciously. lis usually to be found frequenting the large dry goods stores. Her visit is timed in that portion of tho day when you are most busy and desir- ous of making your sales as large as possible in order to stand in well with the powers that be-
 "Then in comes a locker and wants to be shown all the goods at once. How we hatc her. Oh," said the girl impul- sively to the reporter, Eff we only dared talk to her shc deserved wouldn't she just catch it, though"
 At this thought the shopgirls eyes fairly danced as if in anticipation of how she woul l get square for once and for all with >ae troublesome lockers if she hal but ha. f a chance given her.
 ''The looker," resumed the girl, lis generally making a crazy quilt, or some thing or other, and belongs to the samo class of young women who go around bothering young men for their neckties, and who feel deeply aggrieved if they don't instantly promise them their very best tics before they have done wearing them.
 ''She comes here for samples of silks and dress goods.' Mamma wanted sample and couldn't come out herself" Or, Papa wanted to see what the goods would look like before l ordered the dress" and so on. Finally we hit upon scheme that put an end to the lockers lsing our samples of goods for fancy work We cut the samples as narrow as possible and then clip little piece out of the center of the same, telling the locker when she says: ''Oh, what did you do that for?' that we were only cutting our trademark into the goods in order that she might know from what store she procured them. That generally had the desired effect, and gives the locker to understand that we are per- fectly aware of what she wants the samples for, and don't intend to let any one make crazy-quilts at our expense. Another species of locker is one who comes from well-to-do family, and has nothing to do but to kill time. She is not intellectual enough to read. It makes her head ache. Calling is a bore,' she yawns, and then sho 'guesses, she will go shopping She expects us to be pleasant. and amiable, and so oblig- ing. Show me this. Now show me that Every thing must be hauled out for her inspection. Rarely she buys: makes us provoked, cross, angry, and mad, until we wish that the whole tribe of lockers could be turned, like Lot s wife, into pillar of salt, and we could : turn the hose on it and put and end to her foreyer:--N; Y: News, News,
 SENTENTiOUS STATEMENTS , MANY men meet with fall while , waiting for rise.
 SOME men take to the unnatural with | a remarkable degree of naturalness. , IN his lawful bed man can not sleep,
 and in his pew he can not keep awake!
 AN industrious fool can keep three or
 four wise people at work repairing dam
 ages.
 BEWARE of a purely intellectual life.
 This is not a think-world merely, it is
 a real world.
 CEI0BRITY is gaudy costume which
 the crowd puts on a man in order that it
 may fire at him with greater certainty
 of hitting him.
 THE individual who times his visits
 inopportunely and outstays his welcome
 is the most annoying bore with which
 society is afflicted.
 GENTLENEss is the best of gentleman
 inesS- A consideration for the feel
 ings of others will pervade the true gen.
 tleman's whole conduct.
 ADvERsITY often stiffens up the moral
 character. The angleworm never knows
 what it is to have any backbone at all
 till he swallows the fish-hook. '' IF you have talents, industry will inn ;, prove them; if moderate abilities, indus d try will supply the deficiencies. Moth d ing is denied to well-directed labor; d nothing is ever to be obtained without it. d OUR times of greatest pleasure are g when we have won some higher peak of 'f difficulty, trodden under foot some evil,
 and felt day by day so sure growth o1 y moral strength within us that we car E. not conceive of an end of growth. @ REL,GlOUS AND EDUCATIONAL h The Methodists of Philadelphia O have started an Italian mission. tota f. of $1, 1,114.55O is to be raised for missions IF during the year.
 Q Train child up in the way ht