The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-28

ter class OF shops II Is done on request. but
woe betide II the glove does not fit or II the
purchaser thinks IL does not, for the sales
woman knows that every glove fits that is
put on. and Ii IL bursts in the process that
pair Is not discarded. That Is your pair or
gloves, for better. for worse, and although
they will go to the length of mending the
rip, that is all the trial means.
OTHER IRREGULARITIES.
If one buys a handsome teaspoon in Lon
don 1t is delivered wrapped in piece of pa
pei. and those who are so grasping as to
ask for box are told that they ''can have
box, but it is not usual" and when one
sees the box. made of coarse brown straw
board. bound at the corners with tin. it is
easy to see why it is not usual. In Ger
many this is all done more as it is in Amer
lea. and purchases are given out respect
ably done up but in England there is no at
tempt made to make pleasant impression
on the customer. A friend OF mine lately
went into the fishmonger's. with whom she
has traded for years, and CHANGED that day
TO buy only pence worth of kippers. They
were wrapped in niggardly piece of paper
and. as she had TO carry them, she asked
the man TO please put them In a small pa
per bag. This. after some hesitation, he told
her he could not do, For pyper bygS costs
somethink, miss. and / don't see as ] can
be expected to put them kippers In one.
Our butcher one day confided to us that
the small people did have to pay bit more
for meat. to be sure, especially In high
were so many gentry on the books, for, OF
course. gentlefolk didn't pay cash; he would
get his money when they died. when the
IL was only natural that the commoners.
who paid cash. should pay more. he had
10 nave some money TO go on with.
Ii Is almost impossible to buy anything
in the way of furniture for the drawing
room except the very short-legged sofas and
chairs, sold In sets. unless the use for which
they are intended can be concealed from
the salesman. 1 had found two or three
artistic chairs and CHANGED TO say: Now
this Is the sort OF thing want; these will
do very nicely for the drawing ROOM" when
realized my mistake. for the salesman at
once began with an injured aid TO usher me
away from the chairs toward room which
had given me the horrors many times pre-
viously, and to say In cold unsympathetic
tones: ''If IL is drawing room chairs you
quire madam, the drawing room chairs
this way. We do not sell these chairs for
drawing rooms"
To ask at the haberdashery counter for a
spool or thread conveys nothing TO the clerk
until until one one is, is found and pointed out,
a reel of cotton" One soon learns
that there is a difference. too. and
will render almost any ordinary workbasket
Incapable OF holding anything else.
one or my most extraordinary experiences
was IN trying TO And some white dimity for
counter and asked for dimity. "Dimity?
piniity's on the next floor i'm the upholstery
department" 81 don't believe what I want
can be there; I want ordinary white dimi-
ty. Yes, right up those stairs, but l hard
ly think you will find it comes IN white.
What Cid you want IL for?'' II want TX for
a habys dress" Then, increGulously "A
baby's dress?' At this point a young Woman
at the same counter exclaimed: THE lydy
means h'fnfant's robei" soon found my
self In the upholstery department looking
at yellow and red curtain material which
we call madras. and l said: 80 1t was in
tins that Jane Austen's dainty hcroines
picked their way across the dewy grass O.
an early morEing?" The clerk could only
assert and reassert: "WeIl. that's dimitv
and always has been and always will be
In England"