Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-03-10

why . Salesman at the SIX count'
SEVER smiled Again.

why . Salesman at the sIik Counter
S.,.r smiled Again.
Not long ago young woman sct out
In quest of n certain difficult shade 81
Nile green satin. She carried sample
An anxious look set itself In two stub.
born little wrinkles between her mild
blue eyes and marred 10 some extent
the sweet rcposc Of hcr countenancc.
She wandered up Broadway. IN and
out Of all the big stones ON both sides
Of the great thorouehiarc she trcaded
her tedious way. She stood staunchly
at all the silk counters and caused
sticks aud stacks Of pieces Of grcen
satin 10 be- brought down, unfolded and
piled up into a very mountain OF silk.
Blu, still the right shade didn't appear.
At last the polite salesman bcthought
him Of sample, and he asked her "
she had one to match. She produced
the fragment " 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. lie tald her so Well, conldn't
he git II for her. she asked with n
pretty little pout, rs Il was very i'm
portnnt 4 broadway house was too
busy To call n halt for the purpose OF
matching impossible samples.
But the woman was pcrscvcring. Shc
tried Fourteenth street next. and et.
haurcd every silk stock and tho pa
tioncc Of many statesmen ON that thor.
oughiaro without finding what she
wanted. None 81 the floor walkers IN
these establishments was green
enough TO promise to get the satin for
her There remained, however, Sixth
avenue to come, aud she went up town
and down town through every store.
until she got up 10 Teeniy.thlrd street
Then, with frc In her eye, shc sailed
around the corner. and at last landed
In big bazar not thousand miles
from the Fifth Avenue hotel
The purvcyor Of silks was most obllg-
Ing. lie brought down piece after
piece Of light green, dark gwen, olive
gnccn aud every other sort Of green es.
ccpt tho shade she wanted, which stub
bornly remained invisible. At last. In
n moment Of weakness. he took pity on
the young damscl lie felt sorry for
her. Besides. she hadn't eaten mor-cl
Of lunch and looked as II she werc
about to cry Anyway. she was well
dressed and not bad looking, and he
thought -lc might develop into n good
customer II he took little trouble to
obligc her. so with his best smile the
one he kept for Just such occasions, he
took the sample and promised that u
she would call two days later he would
have the exact shade she wanted
Well. that man actually made II his
business 10 send down town aud have a
search made through half dozen
wholesale houses for that obsolete shade
OF Nile green satin, which mntcrialixed
at last In an old millinery stock ON lower
Broadway.
The young woman was on hand
promptly. The match was n perfect
one. what Is the prlcci" she demand.
cd In business like way. Forty ninc
cents yard" replied tho young man,
with the air Of one who expected 20 bc
rewarded with scraphIc smile and a
whole torrcnt Of thanks "Wcli. then,
I guvss you may give me nm eighth and
a sixteenth Of n yard, and I'D like II ON
the bias, please"
That salesman has never smiled ngaln.
lilo Is hot a philosopher lie should
have found some compensation In the
fact that she paid spot cash. She might
have ordered Il sont home @. o. d.,
after the manner OF some girls.
York News.