Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-08-18
AROUND THE EVENING LAMP.

1.-THE Counter" is the name OF publication
intended for clerks and employees in the de-
partment and dry goods stores. Here arc
few of the apt paragraphs from the depart
inent called Counter Remnants :"
A sale ~ time saves many u markdown.
Store. do not buy expensive stationery
for their employees TO write personal letters
on.
Mons furnishing ealesmen. please look
after yonr suspender stock better. Elastics
rot quickly.
Clean goods sell twice as fast as dirty ones.
On one there's profit; on the other loss.
Remember that even the. most chronic
shopper has to buy sometimes, aud the
chances are that she spends quite bit OF
money in the course Of year.
Mirrors are not put in elevators and about
the store for employees to see how nice look
Ing they are, Let shoppers use them for
that purpose.
OF course you are not satisfied with your
present salary and ought TO have more
Who is? The quickest and best way TO get
more is to earn ". There are lots of mer-
chants who are only too willing and an xious
TO pay more, hut they don't see where they
are getting their moneys worth
Harry Gerger is rebuilding his store at
no, ALI SIMPLIFY street. Formerly the store
had no cellar, but now the soil Ia being TO-
moved and the new building will have
cellar, An interesting feet is recalled by the
excavation for the soil Is mostly of sand and
the sand is being used in the mortar for tine
foundation walls. The fact recalled Is that
about 40 years ago much OF that section of
the city was sand lot.
Have YOU seen her--the girl with the new
waist line? asks writer. She has Just
APP cared at the summer resorts, and Is the
most enc young person OF the hour She
has changed the position of her waist line.
and TO the astonishment of all who behold
her, Is wearing her belt at an angle OF 4a
degrees 10 start at the beginning, she puts
her corsets on much lower down than she
used To, drawing them specially low In the
front. Then she discards the old conyen-
tional belt, which encircled her waist bori-
zontally. In the place nf this old-time belt
she now wears tip'tilted belt which IL
conspicuously high at the back and low al
the front. In fact, this modern woman
copies more than any Qua olso the North
American Indian squaws In the manner Of
wearing her belt. And this novel way Of
donning her belt not only ceni,tates the
slender effect Of her waist but IL is more
hygenic than the old fs.hion. for eyen If
tho belt is tightly drawn the pressure which
1t causes Is down rather than up, and i'm
10 10 way interieres with tho vital organs,
The belts arc Invariably made up OF silk.
which are striking in design, and gay in
color, and they arc fastened with buckles No
costly that they become All extremely OK.
expensive novelty.
~
The Brandywine River in this vicinity il
not the important stream IL was q century
ago when. vessels left it for many ports.
only within n faw years II was Liore i'm.
portant stream 10 the lone fisherman than
it is now. Then one might enjoy some
hours sport with hook and line OH LEAFS
mill or the water works and secure a fair
catch OF rock and perch, with an occasional
cattle" not to speak Of an unspeakable
eel. But the advance OF cvilizatlonI has
made the. Brandywine less congenial
resort for fish than In the former days, and
lone fishermen rarely cast line there.
~
Hello! Hello! Heilol Ia that 500? It's
nearly time | got something Will YOU
Kindly explain to me why can't gel 400 i?
I've been calling for the last ten minutes
ana never II. ring or response. Are the
people down there all out to 'dinner?'i
400, did YOU sayf Possibly the operator
thought you made a mistake. That's a
select number, you know; not exactly your
class. Good day" The Spectator.