The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-09-02
- While YOu WHIT y

Press Your Pants While You Wait
! a sign in a tailor's window on columbus
avenue, Is an annornceTent that i ms tne
a row Of South End gentlemen waiting,
all without their pants, while the talior
puts the proper crease IN the garments
if the tailOrs' apartments are large and
breezy no syn PATTY ced be extended
in the present wee Their TO the gentlemen
SO engaged, provided the waiting is not
whine you walt" IS the phrase with
which the ordinary jObher nowadays
seeks to attract custom; and II marks
a healthy reaction against the wholesale
caravansary style of doing business.
where you leave your watch or umbre liza
to be repaired and the young Iady nj me
counter gives you q check with the mum
Der 1886" on il. and says Dlandly,
Come in about two weeks
You can have almost anything done
now at the little shops while you wait
for It, Another sign which the llsteaer
q Key While You Walt which suggests
a very great convenience In the matter
OF getting into your friends apartments,
for, while II might not be handy for you
leave IT over night 10 be duplicated, IT
is a comparatively simple matter 70 slip
around the corner and have another one
made like II while you walt
ton is quite puzzling. A friend came
upon this one In the window Of cob
bler's shop out In Lawrence, the other
day -, -, .,o,-,,v
GET YOUR WORK DONE IN HERE
IL 30 MINUTES WHILE YOU WAIT;
Which suggests wonderment as U the
cobbler's idea Of logic. And here Is the
authentic sign OF an elegant German COD
P R,EF!pA Al DONE WHILE WAITING
All Work Done to Anathomic Foot.
Put the best Of all these while you
hot he Il
PLAYED in lower New York by a painter
u-ho made a business Of COncealing with
his brush the discooration produced in
the vicinity Of the eye by violent contact
with the knuckles Of some one with
whom you happened to have had an ar
gument The mans slgn read:
PAINT YOUR EYE WHILE YOU WATT
Speaking Of street signs there was re-
Gently a very alluring pOlygict one at the
door Of a dime show on E1ot street,
which ran thus, verbatim ct literatim:
PARIS MUSEUM.
DANTE'S DREAM OF THE INFERNAL
GARDEN
for men only.
LES REGIN FREE DANTE.
LA JORDAN DE SULTAN.
This man seems to have known what
he wanted 10 say, though he was too
much of linguist to say 1t; but as much
can hardly be said for the dealer in "A
certain pen, who, in his conspicuously
enumerations Of the virtues Of
the pen. has the following: Always
come 10 the Scratch
A correspondent recounts TO the LIS
tener the difficulties which worthy
blacksmith In Maine once had with his
sign The man had a shop on the only
from Phillips TO Rangeley-the
road over which all the lake tourists. in
Guiding many Bostonians, took stage on
their yearly outings. The blacksmith
gave directions for and had the follow
rarfe~ ,,,la a..I hs If &
HORSE SHUEING.
He was numerically guyed by every
stageload of passengers who passed MS
door. At last this thing became TOO
warm for the old man; so he went 10
the village painter and had the sign
painted on the other side, thus:
HORSE Shelving.
In about an hour after the new Siga
was up a noisy crowd on the Fhllips
and Rangeley stage were sh1Ttlng wt De-,
AN you show us for horses to-day? We |
want TO buy" The old man r., declare
ign. anyway" and took It down alto
sether.