The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-07

-l'SSllts car tract II and other ridges or hOl-
lows Ia the road, there is much less dan
ger OF breaking any part Of the wheel
il your weight is so distributed. As re
cards the position Itself. the body should
De as nearly upright rs possible. From the
waist up you should lean neither for
ward nor backward, but sit upright. as
any one IN an ordinary chair. The pedals
ana seat ought then 70 be so arranged
that your feet and legs come very nearly
beneath you. in q position similar TO that
taken IN ordinary walking. II the wheel
Is mus arranged, there viii be little or
no uanger Of straining yourself IN any
way, since you are neither pushing out
before you in an unaccustomed fashion
nor are you leaning forward in a position
where the arms. chest and shoulder mus
cies are out Of their natural spheres
Leaning forward is a bad and shy posi-
ton for men or women to adopt.
me new safety purse, says the New
York Times, invented by an Englishwo-
man, will, IL IL comes into general use.
NIL niche which its inventor did not
anticipate. It viii protect its owner
against herself Women with rocket
DOCKS IN their hands are a great nuisance
10 the shopkeepers in one way they con-
stantly leave the purses on the counter.
SAID a superintendent Of one Of the big
cry goods stores the other day about
this: 1T will be a benefaction 10 this
nrm and others carrying on a similar
business II a way can be devised to at
tach ladies' pocketbOoks TO themselves
IN some permanent way. only yesterday
one woman lost her purse three times
Ia one hour in the store She was one
OF our good customers and IL was all right
since each time it was returned to her
put, as might easily have happened, had
she lost it. she would have been preju-
diced against the store. The prejudice
Is unreasonable of course, for we cannot
be responsible for the honesty Of every
employe and every customer who may
nave the opportunity to pick up a stray
purse; yet II exists, as we have found to
our cost. There is one customer we have
a valuable one she is, too-who Is so
careless with her purse that when / know
or her being in the store l set some one
TO watch her as she leaves each counter
to see that her purse is safe. once /
actually asked the store detective to keep
her Ia sight for protection against her
self. It is incOmprehensible that women
should be so forgetful, as they daily give
evidence TO me The other night one
or the clerks at the silk counter was
putting up stock and in piece of black
SILK was new sleeve. made and trimmed,
that customer had produced to match
a purchase by and walked on ana left.
AN ASAt Nu4 tue ufln got wire from
Morristown asking IL II had been found"
The new purse, which is not yet on sale
on this side of the water. has two straps,
one Of which Is attached to a ring that
slips over the finger, while the other ends
in narrow band of leather that clasps
around the wrist. 1t is impossible to drop
1t or have ii wrenched away, and yet it
is perfectly accessible, and the strap
scheme does not interfere with the free
use Of the hand.
Dean Hole. the distinguished English
who recently visited this
country, dearly loves a good Joke. One
day a somewhat snobbish oxford friend
of his, wishing to impress upon the dean
the high social character of his familiar
acquaintance, wrote him letter, begin
ming:
My dear countess" and then scratch
ing out countess" substituted Hole"
Whereupon the dean. not to be outdone,
began his reply: MY dear queen" and
then drew his pen through queen" and
substituted Dick"
Both statesmen and saleswomen, says the
New York Tribune, are in the habit of
attuning their manners to their customers
clothes; a shabbily dressed shopper re-
ceiving shabby treatment, where a well
dressed one is civily. and an elegantly
attired one cringingly served judging
thus superhcially, they sometimes make
amusing mistakes. A lady of the writer's
acquaintance had in wear last winter two
cloaks. one was a valuable fur garment
OF the latest fashion, the other was
good but decidedly passe cloth wrap
While wearing the latter one stormy day
she was so insolently treated by a sales
man at the silk counter in a certain shop
n he Lee
patronize It, at least so far as that de-
partment was concerned. However. some
weeks later, when her indignation had
cooled, she did return to that depart
ment having reduced her boycott to that
particular salesman whose insolcnce had
so outraged her. But he. evidently all
unconscious of having offended her, hur-
ried forward to serve her with such alac-
rity that her indignation subsidized still
further and instead of Furnishing him as
she had meant to by declining his ser
vices. she suffered him to wait upon her,
which he did in a way that proved him
to be an accomplished knight OF the yard
stick. Finally he even ventured to re-
mark in a tone expressive of admiration,
That's a fine garment you have on,
ma fam. and comfortable for such day as
this" 1t was cold and she was wearing
her handsome fur cloak!
OF the manners Of shoppers it is more
difficult to treat, since the variety here
is almost as great as the endless pro-
cession of purchasers. The worst beha-
vior behind finds more than its match
before the counter. Indeed, the latter is
often the aggravating cause of the for-
mer Here, again, women are the worst
offenders. Men, when they go a-buying,
generally know beforehand what they
want and how much they will pay, and
they get through with the operation as
quickly as possible, to the saving Of their
own time and the clerks patience The
result is that they are favored even by a
salesman over women buyers; of a mixed
company at a counter, the men, though
they may not be the first corners, are
hkelier to get waited on first. The woman
shopper is terribly prone to the 'folie de
doute'; she does not know what she
wants; or she wants so many things that
she cannot decide--where a lack of money
sufficient TO command them all compels
such decision-which or them to take
Frequently it is the lack of decision it
self rather than of money that makes
her vacillate till the dealers stock and
patience. too, are exhausted All shop
pers and salespeople are familiar with
the woman who brings husband, mother
daughter or friend to decide the matter
for her. A good salesman knows we'll
how to deal with this psychological peculi-
arity in his women customers; he brings
all the arts of suggestion to bear upon it.