The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-08

the box on the showcase. ..'-.@
"Here is something fine, he began but the prospective
purchaser shook her head. -~
cit is to show those. don't like the picture
the inside of the covert ~" "..
The clerk smiled and reached for another box.
"Well how about this *.~
make9 Surely the picture - r. :,
|. !: /
pleases you this time. It 49, ill., -
represents old Cuban IA h F@+
fort by sunset You fAuh EMM II ~ NV
take it off with MWS W E1MN
ter and it to decorate Il \ TX IN kXEf#
screen. - IN RI IT, >%IMKM1N 8k9tMN
There is remote pos | LIZ NN X@@<-NRmA
sbility that the fastdious \ IEVnNM \-s~\AW|Sxr~
customer may have de- kEy/VM WNAN~ " ~
cided OH the old ''Cuban | I-JW MWMN.ZX$@~
fort'' brand had she not fV WMVI% NESMA\N>>
glanced atIthe end of the IIN w - >WENENWnKN
box. But she did glance, lRNN. g., Z MA \XMV
and all the. cigar ! IWN ESV&WASVNN
clerks in town could not (NU ~ M$%&%NW
have made her purchase VI II " W$&&INN y
those cigars - <~. H. -. K AVA&&&$M(>
"It is no use,'' she Iii \MNI&S>
said firmly. 81 see it with NI} $NXM&&N&
my eyes, Ms - 3 .\NV#&$M$NN&
''see what, ma'amq" VN \ MNENM&N\N
asked the mystied clerk HMu - ~ M&MS%&NN
''Why, the word Col dNf VN[[fWdn1N3 ME&M&M\A
orado' You know that AtMWAAWNVAMkW\\\NS >MSsM
Havana cigars should not >S4Ss'saAAsAN> Wae.%se.
be made in Colorado. sup :l..-. 49,. .--..
pose you think women Yog KNOW THAT HAVANA
green at buying cigars' RADIO" IVA 800 A> " 0'1'
caEs But, madam -
u "lt IS use trying to convince that those cigars
not made in Colorado Why, isn't there the stamp
the box? Why don u you try to sell that
packed UP Connecticut and then claim that they are
ported from Porto Rico Oh it takes you to try and
gold-b1ick woman when she enters cigar store
The clerk sighed He collected the open boxes and placed
them back in the glass IT,:
IT sorry he said peppersh tones "that don It
to have cigars suitable for your husband He must
indeed, be a fastdious smoker"
The overartcular patron did not reply to this hidden
thrust She swept up and down in 'front.' the long glass
andmnuey examined every box Of cigars display
Suddenly she pointed her slender finger toward long box
with expression of triumph. -. ! r. .&
'There is what want,' she exclaimed ~4'Those real
long cigars. know they just the kind that Henry
smokes He will be ticked to death if present him with
box of those.' --.- .~..~ ~
The clerk followed the direction Of her finger and then
laughed loud that the yellow cat asleep the snuff
-awoke with start. -" -, %.
'Wha is so laughable?'' demanded the woman in the
gray coat, rather sharply. ~
Nothing particular, madam FASTENED the clerk. III
just thinking of good joke heard at the theaer the
other night about selecting cigars for her husband
Do you really want those?'' go >-
81 certainly do. Don't think that don't know good
cigars when them. know Henry will compliment my
Judgment he smokes the first Wrap them up
p1ease.ot< ss>:<.: = - "..".-.
The smiling clerk drew forth the long box and quickly
wrapped it up pink paper and tied it with blue cord
Gone dollar ninety-nine ma am he said. "Thats
right. Thank you.'' .z- s-
She gave him two-doar note, and he returned her
copper in change; -. ".> e~-
'tAnd you admit that know something about Sc
lecting cgarsq'' she said with winning little smile
do, indeed, am, assured the clerk every few
would have selected the brand Of smokes that you did,"
She placed the box under her arm, ana the momen
her seegay paddock had vanished the crowded street
Then the chronic loungers turned away from the Orena
cigaret Autographs
tWhat kind did she selectq'' they asked in unison
s.Stogies' roared the clerk. Upon my word she Sc
ected box of Pittsbug stoges Preferred their looks
Havana and Porto Ricos Maybe the bargain
price of 81 SO that attracted her Say I'd like to be
when the old opens that box.
And the clerk ginned and threw ball of tinfo thu
yellow the snuff jar-Vicor A. Hermann in the New
York Times .s.-,.
Is. ~ 49, WRONG REMEDY.
d ARNEY oLDFIELD was talking about motorcar o
ID enormous It's breakdown and the effort ta