Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-03-13
WATCHING NILE GREEN.
why a salesman at the SIN COUNTER
Sever smiled Again.

WHY n salesman AT the SIN AonhNNN
Sever smiled Again.
Not long ago a young woman set out
in quest Of a certain difficult shade of
Nile green satin She carried a sample.
An anxious look set itself ia two stub
born little wrinkles between her mild
blue eyes and marred to sone extent
the sweet rcpose Of her -countenance.
She wandered up Broadway. In and
out of all the big stores On both sides
OF the great thoroughfare she treaded
her tedious way. She stood staunchly
at all the silk 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
Linn Of a sample, and he asked her IL
she had one to match. She produced
the fragment of well worn satin, and
the salesman knew at a glance that il
was an old. almost obsolete shade. and
probably couldn't be matched in New
York. He told her 50. Well, couldn't
he get il for her. she asked with a
pretty little pout, as il was very i'm
portant 4 Broadway house vas too
busy to call a halt for the purpose Of
matching impossible samples.
But the woman was ~persevering. She
tried Fourteenth street next, and tx
hausted every silk stock and the pa
thence Of many statesmen On that thor
oughiare without fi1.',ng what she
wanted None Of the iiuUr walkers in
these establishments was green"
enough 70 promise 10 e. 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 up 10 Twenty-thir street.
Then. with fire IN her eye, she sailed
around the corner, and AZ last landed
in a big bazar not a thousand miles
from the Fifth Avenue hotel
The purveyor Of silks was most oblig-
ing. lie brought down piece after
piece Of light green. dark green, olive
green and every other sort Of green eX-
cept the shade she wanted. which stub
bornly remained invisible. At last, in
a moment Of weakness. he took pity on
the young damscl lie felt sorry for
her. Besides. she hadn't eaten a morel
Of lunch and looked as il she were
about 70 cry Anyway. she was well
dressed and not bad looking. and he
thought she might develop into a good
customer il he took a little trouble TO
oblige her So with his best sInqe. the
one he kept for just such occasions, he
took the sample and promised hat IL
she would call two days later he would
have the exact shade she wanted.
Well. that man actually made il his
business 10 send down town and have a
search made through half a dozen
wholesale houses for that obsolete shade
Of Nile green satin. which materialized
at last in an old millinery stock on lower
Broadway
The young woman was on hand
promptly. The match wa a perfect
one. What il the pricef' she demand
ed in a business like way 'Forty-nins
cent a yard. replied the young man,
with the air Of one who expected 20 be
rewarded with a seraphic smile and q
whole torrrut 81 thanks Well. then,
guess you may give me an eighth and
a sixteenth Of a yard. and I'd like il on
the bias. please
That salesman has never smiled again.
He j. not a philosopher lie should
have found soiue compensation in the
fact that she paid spot cash Size might
have ordered 10 sent home C. O. D.,
after the manner Of some sirls-New
York News