The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-04-11
LADIES WITH s ~ HANDS.
Tou Can Get the Best Gloves for Almos
Nothing IN You are smart.

INAtGS WIN f< 'SfSOSs
You Can Get the Best Gloves for AlmosI
Nothing In 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 SIS in
an uptown shop devoted exclusively TO
the sale Of kid gloves, and had paid
SITS a pair for them, stoppedin front OF
a 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 a card announcing in large
letters that the gloves could be bought
for twenty-five cents a pair. She asked
an explanation of a clerk, and received
this reply:
These gloves are in every respect as
perfect and rs 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 nj SI..5 a pair. The
reason why we now sell them for a
quarter is that new styles will soon
como in. and. as we can not afford for
our regulations sake to retain these I'M
sold gloves in stock, we might as well
get a few cents a 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 SIS. Now there
are hosts OF women with So hands. and
infinitely more with 6 and 81 hands.
But women with 50 hands are few.
So we have had a big stock of these lit
tie gloves left over which we do not
know what to do with. We offered
them for a couple of weeks at a dollar,
and then at half a dollar, and now at q
quarter"
But why did you buy so many gloves
Of an unstable size in the first placer"
asked the lady c~uriously.
I'VE had to-" replied the salesman.
"Whcn 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 wcnen can wear these small
sizes. but when one of them calls we
have to be ready 10 lay before her just
as extensive an assortment of gloves of
her size as Of any other size. 1t doesn't
do 10 have two ladies come in together.
say. one with a q hand and the other
with a 81 hand. and be able to supply
one with 4 glove of q 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 eve more. consider
alton than the others, and it wouldn't
pay rs to give her the chance To tell her
friends, as she undoubtedly would
do. from vanity If nothing else. that
such and such Il famous glove house
can not fit her with glo-cs of the shade
and make which she wants. Conse-
~quently. for our rcputatiun's sake. we
are compelled to lay in q stock of these
small sizes. quite Is varied, if not as
large. as the other sizes"
why. if ! had as small a hand rs
that" said the lady. smiling. Il should
wait till you reduced your prices before
! purchased"
That is just what many of the ~
ladies' do" lau%hingly replied the clerk.
at is oar loss. bit w.. can a0t help it.
When we PIT these glovcj down 20 half
"a dollar. W. s"!l them of rapidly.
When we mark the baia::ce at Il qrar-
ter. the ss5c:i rar.iy last, m)-c t.iln
two or three days. Why Just Il, al t
ample. take th.-s small lady il tia sal
s'dI thrt rou "?ol:c IL - ypu came in.
She bought a d,zcn pair, ui these iitt'r
gloves. She is "A regular 1T
this time OF year. S!!e jus. tod q"
that She had Ir-cr watching us for s;x
weeks. Slc said that every tim" She
passed thr .."~. ir.rir she dropped n
and tool. Il lG,k at Soc box. She Was
tempted when size say IL: ,i..: .'"il'r
sim on ::Ir lrrx. ird: cGIclr,lr I, risai a
still f~Gr;!cr L-,ay. -. got h"r dozen
issor;ed pair fr.- $-E- Y. sun.