The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-02-20
Got His Collars.
(Philadelphia Ledger.)

SnOTtaSe, ana whose comfort dPCrees
that he must wear u certain brand of
low collars, recently saved himself
from a change of styles, which would
have been far from pleasant, and a
still further depletion Of the contents
of his purse by resorting to little
atrategy.
The Young man feels that he can
not wear a standing collar of any
variety. When he went to the hab
erdasher to get half dozen Of his
favorltes he found that the stock had
been exhausted, and that, owing to
their unpopulnritN the collars were
no longer carried. The clerk OK
pressed his regret i'm unmistaknhle
terms, but assured the customer that
it he would order Il dozen they would
be ordered at once.
Three dollars-the price Of dozen
| Of his "dears,' ~ he called them
was small sum, but 1t was lust 81 80
more than be cared to part with at
that particular time That was the
| onll shup in town where b. could get
thn collars, So hr wus IN more of 1.
dll"mmn thnu mqy II. rpndrl,: nader
stood by the man who can wear any
| sort of f"shinuabla collar. Ho told
the clork that he did not need 80
many collars at present, rs he merely
wished I" replace II few which had
becom" fraIed.
~ will mnk" Il f"w tries at other
plhcrs,' he said, "Hnd if can't lit,l
them Of course shall have to ask
y"u to order mo a dozen or 80, and
then ! will have thrm."
The yonng ulnn went ont and be
gan to do some tall thinking. The
following morning he pul his plan in
motion. lie went 70 the telephone
and called up the haherdashpr, and
conversation somrtLing Ike this
took place;
"Rello, Styles"
"This is Style's."
"Hav" y"n any Of Good Il Eusy's
collars high back and low front ="
"Nery sorry, bnt we're Just ont of
tn" stock. Can't tempt you with
"nS thing else?"
"No, only Good a. Easy's."
"lkyou want dozen we'll order
them for You
"Oh, that's all right; don't want
more than half a dozen. Good .byw
and he rang off before the man at
Styles could ask who was talking.
About an hour later no called up
Styles again, and a similar conver
sation ensued. Another hour and the
performance was repeated When
he went out to lunch he stopped into
the telephone booth and onco more
called up Styles
"Hollo, Styles! This il Wine Il
Dlnem's-no harm in that he thought,
for 40 it was Have you any Of Good
" E"s>'s collars high back and low
front ~ And the talk continued after
tho order Of the previous schedule.
During the afternoon the young
man called up Styles three times aud
called for Good & Easy's, each time
expressing wish for about half a
dozen, declining Styles generous
offer to order dozen and managing
to avoid giving his namr. A, St los
thor" wax considerable surprise over
the Sudden demand for Good &
Easy's collars
"We've had seven calls 80 far"
said the proprietor. Each one mon.
toned half doz"n That would be-
$1,000 worth Of collars. We'd bet.
ter order about six DOZENS"
The subsequent day the young
man called up Styles for the pur
pose Ct making further Inquiries
;; about Is Good & Eesy collars, for
he was determined 20 make bis
strategy effective, and was told that
we're ont OF them mt present, but wa
ordered six dozens yesterday, and
they'll be here in about five DAYS"
On the fifth day the young man
dropped into Styles aud got hia half
dozen collars.