Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-12

This isn't the style I want, anyway. I've
decided to have one of those military jack
cts with braid on them. Don't you think
they're nice, Howdy?'
"The colored boy who runs our elevator
wears one," said I, "and it's very becoming
to him."
'Tf you don't like them why don't you
say SO. OF course I'll have to get some
thing else. What is that coat on the
bench?"
She Liked the Price Of It
"That will cost $87," said the salesgirl.
"Oh, goodness me, let me try it on"
''My DEAR" said I, remember our un-
fortunate financial"
"But don't have to buy it, you goose"
said Maud; 'I just want to see how look
in it. What are all those cash girls staring
at me for?"
Half dozen of them stood in a line look
ing at Maude and me, and when she spoke
they all burst into tears. 1t made me feel
quite nervous to see them so painfully af-
fected by nv wife's severity, and I tried to
console them. With the aid of about dol
lar in small change persuaded them to be
comforted and 60 away. In a few minutes
thirteen more cash girls arrived and formed
in line. They appeared to be waiting for
chance to weep. 1 then perceived that it
was scheme of robbery. The first little
girl had told the others, and they were all
eager to impose upon my stupidity. Mean
while, crys of "ca-a-a-sh" were resounding
through the room.
"Go away, little girls, said I, "ths game
is up" and they scattered, laughing.
The Original Coat Was Missing.
Maude was picking flaws in the s87
jackets. Finally she took it of, and said
that if they couldn't do better for SS7 she
should 60 to Brownley's. Then it was dis
covered that the coat Maude had worn when
she came in was not to be found.
The scene which followed was very trying
to my nerves. Maude sent saleswomen and
cash-gIrls flying hither and thither. Then
she summoned the floor walker and gave
him some valuable hints about the man
agement of large drygoods store, and also
inquired kindly about his eyesight. He re-
piled that it was good, and she said she was
glad to hear it; she had supposed that he
must be blind to let somebody walk off with
somebody else's coat right under bis nose.
This spectacle in the midst of the general
confusion so interested one of the sales girls
that she shut a large drawer and forgot to
take her thumb out OF it. Whereupon she
promptly tainted away, while all the CASH
girls gathered around her. and had Mysteries.
A member of the firm arrived at this
juncture and remarked that he didn't see
what he could do about it. Maude told
him how he ought to run his business, but 1
didn't notice that he instituted any immedi-
ate reforms. However, when one of the
cash girls found Mande's coat among the
goods which I had seen piled upon the
chair, the member of the firm observed that
if it hadn't been found he should have
given Maude new one.
Relations With the Firm Strained.
Maude was unkind enough to say that
this statement would have been worth more
before the coat came 70 light. 1 could not
help feeling that our relations with Gadsby
g. Co. had been strained. We went up to
Brownley's and had almost as much fun
as I had had at Gadsby's. But Maude
didn't find anything that suited her.
II believe after all that that first coat
tried on at Gadsby's was the best of all, /"
she said. SIT didn't fit very well, but they
can make it over. We must hurry right
back there, because noticed that they had
only one of the 38-inch size.
drew the line at Gadsby. No power on
earth could have taken me back there. /
protested that we had made a menagerie of
ourselves, and should be ashamed to revisit