The age-herald., 1897-10-10
WHY SHE DIDN'T BUY.
A Customer Lost Through Being too Liberal
 With Samples.

From the Chicago Times Herald
 Mamma gsI.s tired so easily. Now that we hays her safely seated, let's look around little bit" said Miss Brown
 With pleasure" replied MT. Smith, who was in the department store, but not as happy as he looked
 "I suppose all men detest shoppingr
 'I guess you n=ver asked them to shop with youp'
 That's ingenious, MT. Smith. That would be a. good way to ascertain whether they do or not, wouldn't it? But l haven't the heart to dissect plallsa ble argument, especially when it's offersd in that spirit"
 Miss Brown, you are a cynic. You are making me ashamed of my real sen- timents."
 Do tell me how"
 You laugh at everything that's se- rious, and my sentiments are serious :"
 Now, MT. Smith, you must stop. This wouldn't be shopping If we talked CO., herently. You are evidently melancholy They say that dyspepsia gives psople that kind of thoughts, but I think those kind of thoughts give peopls dyspepsia You should avoid them, Mr Smith. Try to be like me. l never do anything that would be likely to give me dyspepsia. But let's get to, business. I've bsen try ing for a long time to find some. hing new in food that papa would like. Here are samples of twenty-five novelties Don't they look just exquisite! And ain't the girls who give them out just too daintily gCt up for anythingi Just smell that tomato soup. MT. Smith, we must try some of that tomato soup"
 "Er-ah-of course, if I were you should certainly sample it. If I was r a J1rfL mission from dear relative, I should determine the merits of every brand of tomato soup or die. But, as it is, my physician says that I must confine my self absolutely to vermicelli."
 That was simply delicious. You'll never know how much you missed by not taking 1t, MT. Smith. I shall certainly have to order two cans of that. And, now that you didn't take tlpe soup, you surely can't refuss ito try some of those little pickles. Aren't they the cutest things you ever saw? Do try one No? Mir Smith, you're a martyr. Just look at those vanilla walters. They're made out of that nsw kind of cereal Don't they look as though they would melt be- fore they could be swallowed?. And they are just as good as they look, too. Really, I must have another. Oh. and there's some of that cheese they're all talking about. Have you tried that cheese, MT. Smith? It has set the epi- cures wild, you know. I don't see how you can be So mean. don't beli=ve you have taken a bite of anything but the graham waters. Do look at those doughnuts, swimming in that amber co1ored grease. It's absolutely the new est thing out, entirely vegetable-made from beets, I believe. I declare they taste just too good for anything! must have memorandum of that. And here are, those new preserves which Alice Mil Ter told me about-an entirely new sys- tenn, you know. Dear! Would you im- agine they would give such a quantity away as a sample. Why did you ever think of it, MT. Smith, one could almost lunch here for nothing. I'm beginning to-lghere that girl wants us to try some American olives. And there's a new sort of pickled ham. Isn't it wonderful how they give samples of everything?"
 Now that there seems to be nothing else to eat in sight it just occurs to me that you've had nothing to drink. Come with me instantly and we'll get some soda water
 Really, MT. Smith, that's very kind of you indeed, and I shall avail myself of it. I'll take some ice cream soda with fruit hayors, raspberry and pineapple mixed"
 This store certainly ought to sell a great deal. they are so generous with their samples" said Mr. Smith as they slipped their soda.
 "Oh. it pays them to be so.''
 Three days later on MT. Browns yer. anda MT. Smith asl1edi 'Well Miss