Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-05
FEMININE FIELDS.
Pastures Green That Await PittsbErg's
Fair Creatures-Drugs Made Delicious
When Doled Out by Their Dainty
Hands - Choice Nuggets Of Current

Fair Creatures-Drugs Made Delicious
When Doled Out by Their Dainty
Hands - Choice Nuggets Of Current
News.
"1 intend to put women in as many de-
partments as can." said a druggist yester-
terday. "Many women would buy more II
there was lady attendant to wait upon
them. l don't know" and his eve twinkled,
''if woman would select powder from q
woman; for, you see, every woman seems
to regard herself as a general detec-
tive of the whole sex, and too often the
tongue begins where the eye leaves OF. and
pretty kettle Of gossip starts aboiling. On
general principles. female clerks, however,
are desideratum, and to prove to you that
am not merely talking, let me tell you, I
woman, who either is experienced
or shows herself willing to learn.
If she comes in here with kid gloves on
though, Off they'll go in a hustle, and If
she's timorous at the sight Of work, I'm
afraid we'll part company"
This is the composition of a drug clerk for
the year 1892: Painstaking good natured,
quick and retentive memory, tactful, able
to rise to an emergency, understand bad as
well as good English, know how to distin-
gu1sh in the dark between the dialect of q
Dominican negro of the Northwest corner
and that of his brother of the South west,
capable OF talking or taking babies through
through their ninety-second winter, If need
De know the styles in opera bonnets, and
likewise be authority on the latest ap-
proved method for saving the soul. also the
complexion. Over all this is to be worn q
coating OF humility.
Great Riches In Good Memory.
If you have ever thought before that a
good memory is great riches to drug clerk,
recall how many colloquialisms there are
and how dearly the people dote upon them.
There is the familiar boneset herb of our
grandmothers, and the drug clerk may be
asked tor it by 13 different names, including
the Latin, French and German terms. II
Doneset is not the familiar word, it may be
thoroughwort, ague weed, sweating plant,
feVerwort, vegetable antimony, crossword,
durchwachseuer wasserhaut, eupatoire per
ceruille and eupatorium perfoliatum:
The druggist believes in q feminine YER
sion OF "All men are liars" He thinks n
woman would falsify a pounds worth to
gain penny, and unfortunately his asser-
tlon mas stouter pair OF legs to stand upon
than such statements have in general. The
most modest trick OF the fair sex, when she
enters as q tyro upon this course Of whole
sale lying, is to ask for cents worth and
then demand the price. She is quite sure
her eyes will transf1x the drugman, and scar
his common sense into permitting him to
make declaration that he never charges
Then here is field for woman
with her nineteenth century appetite for re-
form! She knows the belladonna falsity OF
those andalusian eyes, and stoutly takes a
dime, giving back nickel in change, and a
light one ii she can; for a woman believes i'll
retaliation as fervently as she does not be-
l1eve in her own sex.
When woman comes into drug shop. 1t
Is noticeable that she invariably brings all
her dear little affectations with her. Probably
she thinks they will be accepted as part
payment of the bill, which will be reduced
accordingly.
Woman's WAYS While Shopping.
"Ah! good morning Mr.. Smith. Your
medicine is so good, you see have finished
1t and want the bottle filled again with
exactly the same dear sour stuff. This is a
delicious juiube of f1attery! While the order
is being executed, every perfume bottle
within reach is uncorked to the accompani-
ment Of the following conversations:
"1s this q new perfume?'
"Don't you give samples7"
'The lilac isn't as pretty as what Mr..
Jones Jones has; he gave me whole bottle the
DO you present your good customers with
new new perfume if they promise to advertise
By this time the prescription is filled and
please"
"Why Mr.. Smith, you only charged me 40
cents for the last bottle you hlled."
cents; for this always costs halr dollar"
Hastily, Madam, since she sees that her fiji
is apt to hurt more than help her pocket re-
members that it did originally cost 80 cents.
She never bushes. Rather she assumes a
of-yourbest-customers and
I-don'tthi hink-I1l- deal here-again expression,
while she reluctantly gives over that half
thinks her ten cents is situated, and then
probably goes home and tries to teach her
little children the Decalogue.
herd, and my word for it they'll both come
out on top, as the two most injured pieces ol
creation in existence.
A Genius in Paper and String.
To poets alone does not belong the proud
distinc cjion of being born Instead of made
To put up neat package is an inherited in
stinct. Paper and string are. deceiving and
look manageable at distance, but it takes
a tyro months of practice before any rea
rapldity combined with neatness is attained
Not satisfied with the assurance of an un
slightly result insisted on prentice at
tempt.
1t deserves its own paragraph. No sooner
was the lycopodiun-a tricky sort of q
powder that insists upon playing eye-spy-
laid on the paper than there came a ut ol
trembling. First symptom OF the disease OF
inability. Then as the paper was being
folded, more correctly crulnpled. the
powder began to ooze out at either end
| These ends were seized, while the middle
| few open and the saucy contents liberated
| rose in yellow dust and settled every
where, notably on my nose. This was the
end OF package making. As he threw the
ruins away the veracions druggist laid upon
me firm eve and 1 could hear my vanity
simmering into vapor and disappearing.
To understand people when they are unin'
| solve the unsolvable problem; to rise up in
| wisdom to your customers stupidity, are all
commonplace merits of a drug clerk.
"a friend recommends the use of cocOsSip
| pity for ringworm."
Trials of tho Shopkeeper.
"Fill this bottle with corrosive sublimate
John, have just sold the last ounce"
"What did mother tell me to bring herr
| and small boy stands ruefully rubbing the
| side of his head.
kid, did you forget what you came for7'
| says the unelegant but practical salesman.
"Thats it! that's it!' delightedly shouts
| the boy. "Camphor, came for" And here
| is what was sent to drugstore last week.
HERB.
Ten cents worth of an herb name tanzey for max
ing tea of.
These are a few of the trials and the peo
drugstore. And yet, OF the people it cOulC
| be said, 'of such are the kingdom OF heaven
A new business that has sprung up in the
East End since the arrival of q particularly
heated variety of weather is the vending o
lemonade by the young scions of some oi
Pittsburg's most aristocratic houses. Ir
several instances the plebeian occupation
was carried on under che very patri
clan caves, that is TO say, at the
| entrances to several of the swell
| private avenues, where f1ourishing trade
Is carried on all day with the refreshing
beverage going at 1 cent per glass. The
| passersby could no more pass by than they
| could fly, and oftener left nickel than a
| penny. A trade was also struck up with ice
m a h1 ho rta or hnin in tnn n 20 for
an overflowing glass OF lemonade. There is
| but little difference between this class OF