Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-09-02
IN THE STORES,
Babies Are Among the Articles
Carelessly Left.
The Great Department Stores Have "A
"NOrRue" Where Absent-Nindcd
Customers Find Their
belongings.

Have YOU seen anything OF a beauti-
ful little girl with fluffy golden hair
and q blue frock?' anXiouSly inquired
q young woman of the clerk in charge
of the linen counter in a great depart
mcnt store.
"Why. no! Are you sure YOU brought
her in here?'
Indeed am. ] left her sitting be
fore those nincty-eight-ctnt damashS
to look at those dollar-forty-thfte shirt
waists marked down from "a dollar-t'f-
tv. and now ] cant find her anywhere.
I'm worried to death!
Don't be alarmed" remarked the
clerk, ~col>olingIy. she'll turn up all
right. | expect she's up in tn" dead
room oy This time"
The what"!"
The dead room-the morgut, y""
know
The morguA" Oh, my Irene, Oh.
my darling:"
"Sh-il-h. madam" softly command
Cd d floor walker. for a c~onlnlotion
seemed i~1:rn;nent. "A"ur child IS safe
enough. III venture The 'uIO"guc Is
simply the can't name Of our lost and
found department. Come with me, and
we will see if the little girl is there"
Tho Young ora followed 20 4 long
room. the door of which VAS labeled:
Lost and Found" and there, sure
enough. seated upon a monument OF
packages. boxes, baskets, umbrellas,
cares and other articles, sat a tiny
col2rrH1"ircd girl in a blue frock. con
tentrdlv kicking her small feet against
a ~pasteboard bonnet box.
whats the second Kid and contin-
gent sensation I've, had to-day" CON
Gded the keeper Of the morgue to me
as the recovered child. Justify scream
: ing in the ierTcnt embrace OF her tear
full parent. was carried away. No, 1t :
: nothing unusual. It's almost a daily
occurrence. In the excitement Of bar
gain rushes persons very frequently
lose sight of their children for a re"
moments, and the natural tendency o.
the children is to stray away and TAKE
in the strange sights Of the store OF
their own nook. Of course they NIGH
wander out of the establishment, anI
to prevent this the floor walkers in
yariably send TO me every child the,
find unacconrpani"d by u guardian.
Il don't KNOW i here is any portabl
article. animate or iuanimate. Whir'
docs not find it, way to the morgue,
| continued the krtrNr, ret.f"tiHely. NJ
class OF people losses things 50 rtaGl..
as shoppers DO. You see, they becOm
50 Interested in looking at bargain
that they lay down whatever they ma
happen to have in their hands an
pcrambulatc between counters wit
hardly a thought "a to their actions.
"Suddcrly thcy discover their los
and a mild panic scizes them They g
,r living about from counter to IN
other, prosecutin" their inquiries witt
out stopping to ihink whether the
have visited those same counters befol
r or O Therefore the norgur has b
come a raluab!" ana Indispensable O.
Dartmcnt in very large store.
"Some OF the things which drift in
!. this place would muse YOU. Last wee
a Great Dane dog WAS brought up /
at our nerviest floor walker. and an ug
of he was. i~ndeed-the dog, n
the floor walker. We triced him ,
by 4 short chain and tried to MAJ
him lie down. pending the arrival
Ia his owner. But he wouldn't. lnste;
-, he ooh a stand. braced himself al
let on: q howl which frOze the ouls
some half dozen salesWOmen with
al rSrsiiot. Then he broke his chain al
started il to clean out the morgue.
What did | do? Oh, I adjourned. al
everybody went on a still hunt for t
O, owner OF the dog. We eventually fou1
- her. and she came up and lambasted
for abusing her precious darling. Wi
a,y.r Il word about the rough way
bad handled the m%orgue's accumu
lions.
Dogs OF all sorts and conditions q
rpnat2u;lv brought to the morgue, a
..oN aud then q pet cat. which I
i.,ta!rd from a basket. I've even ha'
: cage of canaries left on my hands
y" f,,d for a week before the carelt
10y owner. who had left the cage down
the crockery department during q s
cial sale. appeared TO claim her pr
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