The record-union., 1894-03-10
duty as a house.-Frederic Remington.
in Harper's Magazine.
NOT ACCOMMODATING
How a Merchant Lost the Trade of
Two Valuable Customers.

How a Merchant Lost the Trade of
Two Valuable Customers.
There were two of them, evidently old
friends, and as they stood looking at a
display OF shoes in the window OF a
Woodward-avenue store the first one re-
marked:
Now, then, if you were me, would you
really buy pair of shOes?"
why, it seems to me that / would" !"
replied the other, "but you must use
your own judgment about 1t. OF course,
shoes will always be worn more or less"
Yes, l suppose So"
"And if you have an extra pair 1t won't
be nothing thrown away"
mo. / guess pll take your advice"
"But don't buy because l say so. /
shouldn't want you to regret it, you
know"
"WelI, we'll see."
1t was a busy day and every clerk was
employed, but after taking seat on the
sofa they gesticulated until the attention
of a f1oor-walker was attracted, and be
sent them salesman.
"You keep shoes, don't youW inquired
the one who thought OF buying.
''YeS'm."
"What would you buy--lace, button.
high, or Oxfords ?" she asked of her
friend.
II always wear high, buttoned, but you
do as you think best"
"Well, | will look at some button shoes
on an A last. Don't bring me anything
but an A last, and | want No. 2's."
While he was getting five or six pairs
of shoes she removed the one from her
right foot and told her friend story about
a woman in Toledo which took up min g
minutes and kept the clerk waiting for
five minutes.
'Too small" he said, as he pulled a
shoe over her toes.
SIS that No. on an A last ?"
"Y es' m.''
"Well, that's funny. That's what I've
always worm"
well. you can't get your foot in. In
bring you something else"
He brought 23s on b last. She man
aged to get her big toe in with the others,
but that was all.
Then he brought her No. 3's on a c
last, and as she finally managed to wig
gle her foot into the shoe it was evident
that she could not stand.
~ ou'll have to have larger shoe," he
said
"AIy stars but what can all all your
shoes? Pm sure | can wear No. 2's on
an A last. You know that" she added to
her friend.
Il have always noticed how small your
foot was" was the reply.
Then she tried on OXtords from No. 2's
to No. as, and from an A to a d last She
couldn't walk without hobbling. Then
she went back to buttons and tried the
line all over again without avail. A No.
81 on the ID last was evidently a I'll for
her foot. The clerk said it fitted like a
glove, but she pulled it off and whispered
to her friend:
Don't you think the goods have
shrunk ?"
'Likoly as not"
"Or walking on my foot has swelled
it?"
Il shouldn't wonder"
''Will you take this pair 2" asked the
clerk, as he held them up.
II think not, We are lust looking
around, you know. We may come in
again. Very much obliged to you"
They started to go out, but turned aside
to see some slippers, and were eighteen
minutes inspecting them and asking
prices. Then they went over and look ed
at some baby shoes, and put in twelve
minutes more. They had reached the
door when they saw the sign of Rub
bers at cost" and stopped and overhauled
about fifty pairs, and consumed fifteen
minutes further time. When they fin
ally reached the street the one who had
tried on the shoes said to the other:
I'VE must remember this place so as
not to come here again. Yon saw that
the people have no accommodation about
m."-Detroit Free Press.