The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1899-09-27
WOES OF BIG STORES.
LOST BABY AND FRANTIC MOTHER A
COMMON OCCURRENCE.

COMMON OCCURRENCE.
Dogs That Have EIudcd Their own
crs, and Even Cnts aud birds That
Have Conc Astrn,, Have To he Cared
For In the "MorGuc."
"ITave you seen anything OF beau.
tiful little girl with fluffy golden hair
and blue froek ?" anxiously inquired
n young woman of the clerk In charge
of the linen counter in great depart
ment store.
"Why, no! Are you sure you brought
her In here?"
Indeed ami | left her sitting be-
fore those 9S cent damasks to look ut
from $3.50, and now | can't find her
anywhere. I'm worried to dcathi'
"Don't be alarmed" remarked the
clerk. consollngly. "Shell turn up all
right. l expect she's up In the dead
room by this time"
1.-THE whatf"
"Thc dead room-thc morguc, you
know"
"The morgue? oh, my Irenel oh,
my darllngf
"Sh-h-h, madam" softly command
cd n floor walker, for connection
seemed imminent. "Your child Is safe
enough, I'll venture. Tho 'morgue' Is
simply the cant name of our lost and
found department.. Come with me,
and we Will see IL the little girl is
there"
The young woman followed to n long
room, tho door of which was labeled
Lost and Found" and there, sure
enough, seated upon n monument of
packages. boxes, baskets, umbrellas,
canes and other articles, sat n tiny
golden haired girl In blue frock, con-
tentcdly kicking her small feet against
Il pasteboard bonnet box.
THAT'S the second Kid and contin-
gent sensation Eve had today" con-
fided the keeper of the morgue TO me
rs the recovered child, Justify scream
Ing In the feryent embrace of her tear.
full parent, was carried away. mo. It's
nothing unusual. It's almost daily
occurrence. In the excitement of bar
gain rushes persons very frequently
lose sight OF their children for II few
moments, and the natural tendency of
the children Is to stray away and take
In the strange sights of the store on
their own hook. OF course they might
wander out of the establishment, and
TO prevent this the floor walkers in
varIably send TO me every child they
find unaecompanled byn guardian.
'T don't know II there Is any porta
bic article, animate or lnanlmatc,
which does not find It's way TO tho
morguc," continued the keeper reflect
lively. mo class of people loses things
so readily MS shoppers do. You see,
they become so interested In looking
Mt bargains that they lay down what
ever they may happen to have in their
hands and pcrambulatc between
counters with hardly IL thought ms to
their actions.
suddenly they discover their loss,
and mild panic scizcs them. They
| go flying about from one counter to
the other, prosecuting their Inquiries
without stopping to think whether
they have visited those same counters
before or not. Therefore the morguo
has become n valuable and lndlspcnsa-
bic department In every large store.
Some Of the things which drift into
this place would amusc you. Last
week a great Dane dog was brought
up by our ncrvlcst floor walker, ana an
ugly customer he was. indeed the
dog, not the 1Ioor walker. We triced
him UP by n short chain and tried 10
make him lie down pending the ar
rival Of his owner. But he wouldn't
Instead he took n stand, hraced him
self and let out n howl which fro2e
the souls of some half dozen sales
women within earshot, Then he broke
his chain and started In to elem ont
the morguc.
"What did | do? Oh, | adjourned.
and everybody went on n still hunt for
the owner of the dog. We eventually
found her, and she came up and lam
bnsted us for abusing her precious
darling. with never II word about tho
rough way he had handled the
mOrguc's denominations.
Dogs Of all sorts and conditions are
constantly brought to the morguc and
now and then n pet cat, which has cs-
capped from basket. I'VE even had
cage Of canarles left on my hands 10
feed for Il week before the careless
owner, who had left the cage down IN
the crockery department during spe-
clal sale, appeared 10 claim her prop
erty.