Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-04-09
nh1rhINe NILE GREEN.

why a SaIs sman at the SILK Counties
y yer smiled Again.
Not Ions ago a young woman set out
in quest o. a certain difficult shade of
ME- greer satin She carried a sample.
An anxious look set itself in two stub
born lit 'e wrinkles between her mild
blue ey and marred to some extent
the sweet repOse of her -countenance.
She wandered up Broadway. In and
ont Of all the big stores on both sides
of the great thoroughfare she treaded
her tedious way. She stood staunchly
at all the silk counters and caused
stacks and stacks of pieces of green
satin TO be brought down, unfolded and
piled up into a very mountain of silk
But still the right shade didn't appear.
at last the polite salesman bethought
him of a sample, and he asked her IL
abe had one TO match. She produced
the fragment Of well worn satin, and
the salesman knew at a glance that it
was an old. almost obsolete shade, and
probably couldn't be matched in New
York. He told her so. Wen, couldn't
he get it for her, she asked with a
pretty little pout, as it was very i'm
portant A Broadway house was too
busy 70 call a halt for the purpose of
matching impossible samples.
But the woman was persevering. She
tried Fourteenth street next, and ex-
hausted every silk stock and the ~
thence Of many statesmen on that thor
oughtare without finding what she
wanted None Of the floor walkers in
these establishments was green"
enough 20 promise to get the satin for
her. There remained, however, Sixth
avenue 10 come, and she went up town
and down town through every store,
until she got % t. Twenty-third street
Than with FIRE in her eye, she sailed
around the corner. and at last landed
IN a big bazar not a thousand miles
from the Fifth Avenue hotel
The purveyOr of silks was most oblig-
ing. He brought down piece after
piece of light green dark green, olive
green and every othsF sort Of green ex-
cept ;he shade she wanted, which stub
bornly remained invisible. At last, in
a moment Of weakness. he took pity on
the young damseL He felt sorry for
her. Besides, she hadn't eaten a morsel
Of lunch and looked as if she were
about TO cry. Anyway, she was well
dressed and not bad looking, and he
thought she might develop into a good
customer If he took a little trouble to
obHge her. So with his best smHe. the
one he kept for just such occasions, he
took the sample and promised that if
she would call two days later he would
have the exact shade she wanted.
Well. that man actually made it his
business 70 send down town and have a
seardb made through half a dozen
wholesale houses for that obsolete shade
of Nile green satin, which materialized
II last in an old millinery stock on lower
Broadway.
The young oman was on hand
promptly. The match was a perfect
one. what is the prieef' she demand
ed in a business like way. 'Forty-nins
cents a yard" replied the young man,
with the air Of n who expected 70 be
rewarded with a seraphic smile and a
whole torrent of thanks. well, then,
i guess you may give me an eighth and
q sixteenth Of a yard, and I'd like it on
the bias, please"
That salesman has W smiled again.
he is not a philosopher. He should
have found some compensation in tbs
fact that she paid spot cash. She might
have ordered il sent home G. o. D.,
after the manner Of some girls.-Nev
York News.