The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-22

lating material for a Sunday story on the subject, How Dead Easy it is tG nail the goods in New York depart ment stores without being nailed. However, she was pinched. Those who heard her little Sunday story nara , tion remarked, sotto voice, unto each other, that the yarn she put up had certain vague icthyological aroma From present appearance it looks a. if the limpid-orbed young thing of the writeress persuasion is going to be compelled to do her bit
 Only a little while before that a plain looking, sedate-acting young thing, sl1irted out in Chicago, was caught in the act of transferring a whole lot os merchandise of value from a novelty counter to the inside of an umbrella which she held freule-d downward and in such position that the parachute made a good receiver for the frisked goods.
 This one, too, was ushered back to the office, and asked what for She similarly, was there with the gazelle stare and she gave verisimilitude to her little screech by weeping copious liquid saltiness. She told 'em that she was engaged in settlement work" in Chicago; that she had frequently in such work, come into contact with pro- fessional shoplifters who had told her that they wound it unable to resist the temptation to swipe the pretty things they saw displayed on the counters, and that she, in the pursuit of her settlement work, had been desiorous of finding out just how it felt to grab goods that didn't belong to her, so that after finding uot, she might know just exactly how the professional counter friskers enjoyed the funniness of get ting away with stuff that didn't belong to them.
 The vulgar store person who listened to this dainty little exposition failed to dissolve in tears. On the contrary, they summoned one of those eiglt-foot fur cappeds Chicago cops, who took the srinking young thing engaged in "set- clement work to a little room where there was just a bench and tin wash basin and the latest reports as to the case indicate that the inquistive young creature with the settlement bug is go- ing to find out as further experience, noW it feels to wear clothes made out of stripped sailcloth.
 It may not be long before the news papers will be publishing interesting lit news items something like the fol- lowing
 Miss Pencileeta Scribblerot, the com ing young authoress, whose recent stor- lette, How I Played Playhouse and Got Away with, It, attracted such wide attention, was the victim of annoying incident yesterday afternoon at a well known local Jewellers shop Miss Scribblerot, 1t seems, had been com missioned by one of the best known of tfle Sunday newspapers to devise a novel story for early publication. In spired by the hightest motives there fore, Miss scrlbblerot late yesterday afternoon walked into the jewellers es- tablishment and asked to be shown a number of diamond tiaras Several magnificent tiaras of very great value were placed on the cushioned tray be- fore the ingenious young writeress, but, after examining them all carefully, she decided that none of the articles exactly suited ller purpose. and started to leave the store. Before she had reached the exit door, however, the somewhat boorish and unoouth clerk who had waited upon the clever young woman discovered that one of the tiaras that he had displayed was missing. He inn mediately set up a wholly inconsiderate not to say unklnd and malicious, alarm and speeding toward the door, he-we grieve to relate it-grabbed the pro