The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-02-18
LADIES WITH s 10 HANDS.
You Can Get the Best Gloves for Amos,
Nothing If You are Smart.


You Can Get the Best Gloves for Almost
Nothing If You are Smart.
Women with exceptionally small
hands may, if they keep their eyes open,
glove themselves neatly the year around
at an expense scarcely worth consider
ing. A few days ago a lady who had
just purchased a couple of pairs of 6's in
an uptown shop devoted exclusively to
the sale Of kid gloves, and had paid
$l.75 pair for them, stopped in front OF
box on the counter on her way out.
The box was about half full of gloves
of every shade, and apparently of fine
make. What attracted the lady's at
tention was card announcing in large
letters that the gloves could be bought
for twenty-five cents pair She asked
an explanation of a clerk, and received
this reply:
'These gloves are III every respect as
perfect and as well made as those for
which You have just paid seven times
the price. There are absolutely no de-
fects in them, and three months ago we
were Offering them at Sits pair. The
reason why we now sell them for a
quarter is that new styles will soon
come in, and, as we can not afford for
our regulations sake to retain these UNI
sold gloves in stock, we might as well
get a few cents pair for them as to
throw them away You see they are so
small that there is almost no sale for
them. They are all 51S9's. Now there
are hosts of women with 81 hands, and
infinitely more with and Ga hands.
But women with 51s hands are few.
SO we have had big stock of these lit
tie gloves left over which we do not
know what to do with. We offered
them for couple of weeks at a dollar,
and then at half dollar, and now at a
quarter"
''But why did you buy so many gloves
of an unstable size in the first placer"
asked the lady curiously.
"We had to-" replied the salesman.
"When we gave the order we knew we
would be badly stuck on this size, but
we had to do it. You see, we have a
reputation which we have got to sustain
at all costs. No matter what a Gus
toner wants we must be ready to sup
ply the order. OF course we know that
very few women can wear these small
sizes, but when one of them calls we
have to be ready to lay before her just
as extensive an assortment of gloves Of
her size as of any other size. 1t doesn't
do to have two ladies come in together,
say, one with 6 hand and the other
with 81 hand, and be able to supply
one with glove of a certain shade and
make, and refuse the other. The
woman with the smallest hand well
knows her point of vantage. She de-
mands as much, or even more, consider
alton than the others, and it wouldn't
pay us to give her the chance to tell her
friends, as she undoubtedly would
do, from vanity if nothing else, that
such and such famous glove house
can not fit her with gloves of the shade
and make which she wants. Conse-
ouently, for our regulations sake, we
are compelled to lay in stock OF these
small sizes, quite as Varleo, II not as
large, as the other Sizes"
"Why, if ! had as small a hand as
that" said the lady, smiling. II should
wait till you reduced your prices before
purchased"
''That is just what many of the 81!
ladies do" laughingly replied the clerk
cit is our loss, but we can not help it
When we put these gloves down to hal
a dollar, we sell them off rapidly
When we mark the balance at a quar-
ter the stock rarely lasts more than
two or three days. Why just as an ex
ample, take that small lady in the seal
skin that you spoke to as you came in
She bought dozen pairs of these littl
gloves. She is a regular customer a
this time of year. She just told m
that she had been watching us for ST
weeks. She said that every time sh
passed the store lately she dropped i
and took look at the box. She wa
tempted when she saw the half-dolla
; sign on the box, but concluded to risk
still further delay. She got her doze
assorted pairs for So. IN. Y. Sun.