St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-26
duties. She seems like a sister to her
three tall daughters, and sister but
slightly in advance of them in years.
LADIES WITH 8 1-2 HANDS.
You Can Get the Best Gloves for
Almost Nothing if You Are Smart.

You Can Get the Best Gloves for
Almost Nothing If You Are Smart.
New York Sun.
Women with exceptionally small hands
may, if they keep their eyes open, glove
themselves neatly the year around at an
expense scarcely worth considering. A
few days ago lady who had just pur-
chased couple of pairs of 6's in an up
town shop devoted exclusively to the
sale Of kid gloves, and had paid $1.75
pair for them, stopped in front of box
on the counter on the way out. The box
was about half full of gloves Of every
shade, and apparently of fine make.
What attracted the lady's attention was
a card announcing in large letters that
the gloves could be bought for IS cents
a pair. She asked an explanation Of
clerk and received this reply:
"These gloves are in every respect as
perfect and as well made as those for
which you have just paid seven times
the price. There are absolutely nc de-
fects in them, and three months ago we
were offering them at $1.75 pair. The
reason why we now sell them for a
quarter is that new styles will soon come
in, and as we cannot afford for our repu-
tation's sake to retain these nnsold
gloves in stock we might as we'll get
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 515s. Now, there are hosts
Of women with 81 hands, and infinitely
more with and 81 hands. But women
with So hands are few. So we have had
a big stock of these little 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 a
dollar, and now at quarter. We have
reputation which we have got to sustain
at all costs. No matter what customer
wants, we must be ready to supply the
order. Of course we know that few
women can wear these small sizes, but
when one of them calls we have to be
ready to lay before her justas 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 six hand and the other with
five and half hand, and
be able to supply one with a
glove Of certain shade and make and
refuse the other. The woman with the
smallest hand we'll knows her point of
vantage. She demands as much, or even
more, consideration than the Others,an
1t wouldn't pay us toglve her the chance
to tell her friends, as she undoubtedly
would do. from vanity if nothing else,
that such and such a famous glove
house cannot fit her with gloves of the
shade and make which she wants. Con-
sequently, for our reputatation'S sake,
we are compelled to lay in stock of
these small sizes. quite as varied, 1t not
as large, as the other Sizes"
"Why, if had as small hand as
that" said the lady, smiling, II should
wait until you reduced your prices be-
fore purchased"
That is just what many of the So
ladies do" laughingly replied the clerk.
''It is our loss, but we can't help it.
When We put these gloves down to half
a dollar we sell them off rapidly. When
we mark the balance at quarter the
stock rarely lasts more than two or
three days. Why, just as an example,
take that small lady in sealskin that
you spoke to as you came in. She
bought dozen pairs of these little
gloves. She is regular customer at
this time of year. She just told me that
she had been watching us for six weeks.
She said that every time she passed the
store lately she dropped in and took
look at the box. She was tempted when
she saw the haIf-dOllar sign on the box,
but concluded to risk a still further
delay. She got her dozen assorted pairs
for $3'