The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-23
CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
QUEER THINGS PEOPLE Do AT
BIG STORES.
Shop Girls Talk About the Eccen-
tricities of Customers, and, it is
Evident, Not Without Good Rea-
son.

Customers make some peculiar re-
quests sometimes, don't they?" / asked
of a pretty girl who was waiting ON me
in one of the big stores where crowds are
locking to purchase Christmas presents.
''Ies, indeed" she replied. Some times
am at a loss to know whether to laugh
or get angry at some of the meanness
see. I know I will develop into either a
humorst or a pessimist, and am worri-
I'd to death to know which.
THAT lady who was here just before
YOU, came down here to get reduction
of % cents on a. 50 vase. She said when
she got home and examined it she found
a little mark of rust on it and she didn't
think the person TO whom she intended
care to keep It unless she got reduc-
ton. L sent her to the manager"
We were interrupted by a young lady
says writer in the ST. Louis Post-Dis-
woman what would be a suitable gift to
present to a young married friend. She
Observation-Disclosures mind-it wasn't a.
bicycle. The young. lady blushed, and,
the direction of the cradle department.
Il suppe Sc you know" resumed the
young woman, that there are lots and
lots of people who buy gloves, hose, ETC.,
with the privilege of allowing the recipi-
elts of these presents to exchange the
goods if the size is not correct. Well,
presents, who bring the goods back to
the store after Christmas and stoutly as
sert that they bought the articles them
selves, shd desire the money paid for
them refunded, saying by way of explana-
ton that they had afterwards learned
that the party for whom they were in
tended was to receive a similar present
from another source, so they had seen fit
to present something else.
Then there are the women who try to
exchange games which were presented to
their children. They bring in a certain
saying, My little boy had another game
just like this given to him, and I would
like to exchange it for something else, as
he has not used it at ALL If that was
she requested. but in lots of cases the
game shows plainly that it has been used
a great deal, and. the whole truth of the
matter is that the child has played with
the toy till he or she has become tired of
1t and child-like desires something new,
and the mother resorts to this method to
crafty her offspring's wish without an
extra outlay of money.
u had rather a queer kind of a custom
er today" continued the young lady. "a
tastefully dressed young lady came up to
me ana after unwrapping parcel she
cut-glass ink stand, which she said she
had Won as prize at a progressive
euchre party a few months previous. She
Ssipu eial II IdQ Deen DOuSilt mere ana
she. desired to know whether she could
exchange it for something suitable for a
present to gentleman for Christmas.
She stated that she preferred to exchange
it for pair of silk suspenders if possible.
referred her to the manager. Oh, he gets
lots of them!
1--WE have fun with young fellows from
for their sweethearts. They blush so
beautifully and never make us the least
trouble, as they never know what they
want to buy and always take our advice
blindly."
just then the reporters source of in
a customer, and being left alone he
started on a tour of the establishment In
passing through the basement he over
heard the following conversation between
two ladies, who were standing in the
lamp department.:
Don't you think lamp would be a
ayes replied the the other but ed then you
know she is going to be married just
after Christmas, and she will be. sure to
get lamps and all sorts of household ar
ticles as wedding presents, so let's get
her something else
well, what shall it be?"
sOh! / don't know, what do you say
to q nice box of water colors?"
..Why, she does not paint docs she?"
oh! no." replied the other with "a gig
gle, at least not in that way. and she
may conclude to learn, or perhaps her
children may develop a taste in that di-
rectlon, and II SO she will have the
means at hand to give them a start"
The idea seemed to strike the other as
direction of the art department
Having been told that the manager got
most or these troubles sought him out