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they'll gather up their bags and gloves and
boas and magazines and packag es and say
there amt anything fit to wear in the whole
place"
A heavily built purchaser, tired OF the
scramble, sinks softly down on the edge OF
the show case, whose door slides back. gives
a resting place for the tired.
The next woman grasps her excitedly.
Excuse me. but you are sitting on that
SIS smoke gray hat
Il thought l felt something, " and she rises
with an activity she would have believed
herself incapable OF n moment before.
Fortunately she is not seen by the lynx
eyes of the proprietor nor any OF the help
ers.
And a nome mt after IL is lifted In the air
by a tall figure attired in a gown the exact
shade of the sat on hat. -
Yes, l was looking for something to wear
with this. IL is the exact color. Cheap, too.
Only $50, but / don't know as / care es-
pecially about the shape; it isn't bad ex-
actly but it's
that it's the shape that gives it its aplomb.
We've had a lot of calls for that shape and
we're the only shop that has that special
model. OF course you can straighten 1t
out, but L wouldn't"
One of the most noticeable features of
the bargain sale is the perfect abandon
with which the question of artificial hair is
treated. Nearly every one of the ptrr-
chasers has a head covered with braids,
pufs. waHes and curls that 10 the most in
experienced eye are theirs by purchase but
not by growth.
One smart looking young woman of
about 20 has unpinned a score of puffs and
is pinning them on underneath the hat she
has selected Another has lost half a
yard Of applied puhs on the floor and two
girls on their knees are searching for them.
her to take the braid from one side of her
head and pin il ON the other, and on ons
purchaser a curious eye counts forty puffs
and ourls that are pinned about the head
like sausage rolls, ~ p
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the squatty kind like that lady that I've
just been selling this swiss matinee and
the white linen suit to don't look well in
~princesses, that's the reason she didn't
buy it, although she said that II it hadn't
been for that you wouldn't catch such
a bargain slippin' through her hands"
No? And tiredly she addresses No. 5.
In one of the pink draped bonbon boxes.
called fitting rooms, whose walls are lined
with cheval gla sses and whose half dra wn
curtains Of heavy rose brocade only partially
conceal the trying on process, a blonde is
~wriggling herself into a creation Of chiffo
lace and ~spangles.
Squeeze in" says a staccato voice,
which belongs to a saleslady concealed by
the pillows Of tulle.
Just wait a minute, . says the agonized
voice of the fitted, Il think my corset
strings going; no, that's all right. You
see I've been playing golf lately and it's
just running my figure; you don't think
so, but my waists never been over twenty
one and 10Y its tw~enty-one and q quarter.
l must diet, what do you recommend?
Thanksl oh, yes, I'm perfectly comfort
able. Oceans Of room, 1 cam imagine
why 1 had to squeeze 80 at first. Yes, it's
a perfect dear. Only $500? You must
mean 81 500? No? Well, it's giving it
away. l must have 1t sent right up to the
house for my husband to see. OF course
he'll let me take 1t, but l always have TO
consult him; you know how queer men
are about such things. 1t was just because
1 used to consult my first husband, and you
know how jealous men are.
You don't think l can have it sent on
approval? Why, Of course I AN. ! always
nave things sent on approval. You'll see.
That's a dear"
Outside the pink room the girl carroms
against one of the heads OF the department
and a low voiced consultation is heard.
"Shew to her husbandp Don't you know
her? Why, her husbands been dead FIVE
years. She's one of those women who are
always working a dodge Of that kind, Mar
ried the second timer No, she hasn't, but
she wants to. Just tell her II the gowns
here tomorrow she can have 1t sent, but
not on @ bargain day, and II she sends to-
morrow say it's sold. 1t doesn't pay to
anita gonize people when all you've got TO
do is to use a little tact. That's the way
you get to be a head Of department, my
dear, it's tact"
Transversely through the room row.
of dresses hang from hooks and hangers. a
bewildering mass of color and form.
Through the %aisles. turning first to one
side and then to another. pass increasingly
q stream Of women commenting and
occasionally asking the shopgirl 10 take
out some special one. Each OF the dresses
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IF you do buy and you are to carry yoVr
purchase away yourself he sends the goods
to be wrapped up and then tands stolidly
till they come back, II you don't buy he
mechanically replaces the goods he has
taken down to show you, as you rise to
depart, and you say to yourself as o GO
that you will never 60 there again IL You
can help it.
"Let me tell you, young gentlemen, that
there is nc ga lesmRn with any sort OF goods
at all to sell but can increase his business
and his pay simply by the exercise OF real
politeness; by taking pains. If he will
but seek in good faith, honestly and politely
and with real endeavor. to satisfy each
customers wants he will 6nd customers
coming to him individually when they
want things and finding n pleasure in buy
ing OF him; he will build up a f~ollowing,a
trade, that will go with him, steadily in
creasing, wherever he goes: and you know
what that means; il means money.
Let me adjure you young gentlemen. to
cultivate and practise q point OF genuine
politenesS.h
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60 the limit of grabbing fine glass gas
iully slowing them away in their trunks.
Why, they'll even steal paintings from the
walls Of fine suites. A very well TO do
Pennsylvania man, Who had occupied a
three room suite by himself, took with him
when he went a small landscape painting
hanging in his sitting room, for which !
had paid 5000 at a sale. I wrote to him at
his home about IL when the picture was
missed after he left. He wrote me a bunk
letter in ~reply-said that he had packed
the picture away in his trunk. meaning to
ask me to put a price on it before he left,
but that he'd forgotten about il. His wife
didn't like the picture and he had shipped
Il back to me that day-a fine lot Of hum
bug, He had hoped, OF course, that in view
OF his known wealth he wouldn't be sus-
pected of having stolen my picture.
We'll, ] Put these women detectives. one
or each floor. to looking over the rooms Just
before guests were aboutsto leave. They
were fixed up exactly like chambermaids,
and they enter a room. under the pretenoe
OF renewing towels or soap or something,
after all the baggage Of guests was packed
and they were on the point of leaving. They
could easily and quickly tell, by surveying
the rooms. II anything was missing, IL any-
thing was missing they'd Immediately re-
would be held up at the desk. II they had
already paid up they would he summoned
10 the desk, told in plain words what for, and
requested 10 disgorge or dig up the price OF
the thing stolen, otherwise their baggage
would be held. There we're all sorts OF
rows over this. too.
But, as J say, l had to give it up after
making a fair trial of the scheme. A lot OF
accounts of the rows got into the papers,
considerably magniied, too. and the people
who were held up for stealing things went
away and knocked my house 10 fare-you-
well, These knocks spread, and no hotel
mar can afford 10 send a whole parcel OF
Knockers forth into the world. SO | had TO
quit. II all the first rate hotels in Chicago
had oooperated with me, something would
have been done. The thieves would have had
10 put up somewhere in Chicago. and II
they'd been treated alike at all OF them the
knocks wouldn't have made u difference.
As II was. the other first rate hotels OF Chi
cage benefited by the knocking I got.
1All Of the leading hotels OF the United
States will get together and put my scheme
into universal operation ONO old day, how
ever, and az no worry DISSENT date. There
was some plain talk about the thieves az the
meeting here the other day. and while 7
can't ssy anything about what was done
] can express the opinion that the hotel
people are going 10 RraDfle With this prob
lem OF the guest thieves before long
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tho regions Of Fourteenth street and Sixth
avenue. It is your mistake, that is all.
Even the shopgirl forgets that air Of
frigid hauteur which marks the shopgirl
caste in that sacred part Of town. and in
stead Of the languid delsartean pose with
which they are accustomed to hand out an
ostrich plume and name the price without
looking at the possible purchaser. they step
around as lively as fans seeking their places
on a baseball day.
One Of the 3s-25-42 variety mistakes a
iook OF curiosity in regard to the price Of a
white swiss muslin matinee for n Of per-
sonal confederation. and exclaims:
They've been at it since Z his mornin'
an they're just like a flock Of crows. There
amt a thing in my stock that they amt
mauled over IN over, an I've stood here
sayin' hggers till I'm ready to drop
Having delivered this exordium the So
?5-42 model calls the attention to the fact
that the Swiss muslin of the matinee is real
Swiss and has handwork all over it. Its
one of the greatest bargains I've got" she
murmurs. returning to her trade manner,
AN you'll regret it all your life il you
don't take it. i can assure you on the
word OF a lady that it's a bargain. and 1
know bargains when l see EN-. It's only $50
and is reduced from $e2. for there's the
ticket, and you can see where the $92 is
crossed out and the $50 put right below it.
You won't take it? Well, OF course it's
your loss, but pr'aps you'd rather have a
white linen suit, finest German linen; We
import IL ourselves so we know it's good.
I've got q stunning suit here, just your
style. everybody couldn't wear il, but
you've got that reckless back, you know.
that can show off anything, and you see
how the collar and the edge Of the cuffs is
all trimmed with real Irish crochet, there's
ayard and a half-let me measure-and the
whole suit is just being given away. l think.
I've seen suits just like it goin' down the
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Indians Seeking Divorce.

Ktdmdth Falls eorrosp ondoHco Sacramento Be-.
The Klamath Indians are adopting the
current society fad OF getting divorces, Tim
Brown. Indian. has filed suit in tho Circuit
Court 10 secure a divorce from his sauav
This is the first case on record W the County
divorce pr oceedings.
That others intend following in Browns
footsteps is shown by the follow inE incident
that occurred a few days AGO. 4 full blood
Indian walked into the County Clerks ofiloe
and asked to see the record Of the marriage
license issued 10 Frank IsaaCs some Ave
years ago. The Clerk showed him tho record
in question, lie looked az II for 4 fov nm
ments, then said. How much him cost
| want to buy HIM back
Upon questioning him II was learned that
Frank lsaaCs desired . dlVot1" froni lis
squaw. The method u. procedure. Vas oN-
planned to the brave, but hc HNpIrrsed. die
gust at the white man Is complicated method.
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down when / told him what thefts Of that
sort had been costing me and about the
measures | was taking in elf-defence to
prevent or Offset such losses.
We'll : he said, I'm going to get to the
that's a cinch. II my wife took them I'm
going to find out about it. Everything
we've got is packed, but all the same I'm
going to wait over a few rains till | make
a search OF. every piece of baggage we
with me while I'm making the search,
he said to me.
Il went up to his suite with him. Not
engrily, but In a very mild. decent way
he taxed his wife with having taken the
silyerware from the table. As he had an
ticipated, she resolutely denied having
We'll, he said TO her, L hate TO doubt
your word, but I'm going to find out. II
the house is wrong the proprietor here,
me, II ! find the things it'll serve you
right and he got out his bunch of trunk
and grip keys, o of his coat INT went
TO work at the search.
He turned over the things in his wife's
trunks and valises first and she grew hys-
erica as he went on with the search.
THAT settles ii, he said to her when she
began to moan n wiring her hands.
You took the things and IN find them.
But she never offered TO tell him where
w. ~ o'' ~ tOeh ."A' ''iSO
quarle y Of an hour 10 find the cream jug,
sugar bowl and finger DOW away down at
the bottom OF one OF her trunks wrapped
in one of thoTursish towels OF my house.
It's all right-you win,' he saidto me,
holding the articles up. And ] don blame
you a id bit for taking steps TO protect
yourself. | know that I'D. do the same If
! we're in your place
HE restored the stolen articles to me,
and by this time his wife was rolling on a
couch In hysteria. She had to have the
services OF n physician and the couple were
obliged to remain in the house for several
days more.
"There were many unpleasant incidents
Of that sort.
eat the same time that ] installed The de-
t~ectives in the dining rooms ] put a female
detective, serving in the guise Of a cham
bernaid. on each OF the upstairs floors TO
keep an eye upon the people who made a
practice Of stealing articles from the rooms.
Don't imagine that towels, plain and Turk
ish, ara the only articles that hotel guests
swipe from the ROOMS. That used to he
the case years ago. but they've got away
beyond that. Nowadays thoy take any
thing that's packable. They swipe the
nickcl.ed towel racks from the bathrooms.
They steal heavy footstoois. They even
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FOR SUCCESS IN A SMALL SHOP.
Some Further Remark by the Professor Of
the Art OF Storeke coping.

'In a previous lecture, said the professor
Of the art Of bookkeeping, Il said to you
that success in keeping a small store de-
ponds much upon the personality OF the
~storekeeper'; and / cited to you, as you
may remember, various of the qualifca-
lions required. To-day I would speak TO
your more particularly OF a single n Of
these requisites, namely, that OF polite
ness.
1T lie easy to be ps1ite to everybody,
that is, specifically polite; but not 30 easy
to be truly. polite. Here is Mrs. Jones
just home from trading at Mr.. Robinson's
store, and she says:
What a nice man Mr.. Robinson isl
you can make up your mind that
Brother Robinson is' really polite man,
Of whom it is a pleasure to buy goods,
and who is certain to attract trade, When
Mrs. Jones ven into his store to-day, to
be, by chance, waited on by Mr.. Robinson
himself, she found him, as she always
does, really interested in her wants. As a
matter Of fact when he waits on anybody
Mr.. Robinson forgets himself and his profits
and thinks OF this individual customer
alone.
aHe Is not only ready TO show goods
OUT ne NHnlS 70 hnON lntIll' nc TtdlZeh
that 10 the customer this purchase may be
a matter OF real importance, and he is
Interested accordingly. Not only does he
try 10 see that she gets what she wants,
but he really wants her to get IL; and that
Mrs. Jones should be pleased with all this
Is perfectly natural.
MIR. Robinson waits not only on Mrs.
Jones in this manner but he waits on
one and all Of his customers in the same
way. And, Of course, you know the result
Robinson sells more goods than all the
rest Of the clerks in his small store put
together.
"a staggering thing it u TO me that
so many clerks in stores big and little
fail TO realize the value Of politeness and
so fail 10 turn II TO their own great advan-
tage, as they might readily do. You go
into n store 10 he waited on perhaps with
purely ~perfunotory ~politeness; the clerk
isn't really interested In you or your want
at all. he shows goods 10 you, but itHppears
90 make little difference 10 him whether
you buy or not, and really he doesn't more
than half try. Il 90 much, Q please you.
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Avener that | know cost $50. and this Is
only So Oh, Of course. you can get suits
that look like it for $40, but when you put
it on you'll See the difference. This has got
an air to it, Gad tell you that's it's the air
you wear hat catches the eye every time.
'You don't think you'll take it?" And
the shopgirl turns her back and takes up
the thread OF discourse to another possible
purchaser,
~Yes'm, all hand work from neck to ankle.
Amt It a beauty And it's only 1875, re-
duced from s425: here's the mark, you can
see for yourself. It's just your style,
ma'am, them long slim fggers, l think,
get to look perfectly angular in these
princess gowns, but a nice rounded plump
ness. like yours, justs gets Strengthened
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It's only $3.50. 1 don't see how they can
make such reductions. You see. last week
it wal $7s5. Can you imagine a worse
tragedy than buying a dress like this one
day and coming in the next to see it marked
down to bargain ratesI'
A fashionable woman Of the October
rose variety puts out a long slim hand
and touches some violet null caressingly.
She is accompanied by a chaperon who
has a hawk nose and a %lorgnette.
Il never see this peculiar shade but l
think Of Mrs. - You know her story?
Nor l thought it was one o: New York's
choicest social anecdotes. Well, she had
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Of the nearby mirrors. She sighs when a
question is asked and turns as IL a dream
had been interrupted.
@Yes'm, it's all hand work, every stitch
Of it. And it's just your style. Don't it
feel good? l say. you can always tell by
the feel. II you nave it taken up a little
on the shoulders and the skirt shortened.
see, this way. only four inches all. around.
and let out at the waist-I said let out at
the waist, not taken in. ma'am-and the
sleeves raised a bit, 1t will fit you as II you
were made for it. Yes'm. it's only $222.
It's been selling right along for $24I "a"
Wonder why they always put a thirty
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Make People Pay or Arrest Them, Says He,
and Some Day the Hotel PrOprietors
VIII Combine on n scheme-His Own
Experience With Restaurant Detectives.
WASHINGTON, June L.-At the conclusion
~ his severe comment upon the looting OF
the flagship Of the Duke of Abruzzi by wish
tors who attended a reception on board the
Varesa in Hampton Roads Admiral Evane
said: This is peculiar to America. The
Dukes loss is attributable 10 the uncurbed
desire OF Americans 70 collect souvenirs
Many Of the hotel men remaining over
here after the convention Of the Hotel Mems
Association in Washington last week main
tain that the Admiral has got II wrong.
They say. out and out, that IL is no longer
The souvenir craze that impels the better
Grade Of Americans. particularly womenr
TO steal everything they can lay their hands
m. It's plain, downright stealing for the
use and value Of the articles stolen, say
these hotel men.
This subject-the loss TO hotels through
The p~ilfering propensities Of guests. a loss
which In said TO aggregate hundreds Of
thousands Of dollars a year throughout the
oounlry-was taKen up at a secret meeting
oithe hotel men during the convention here.
Hhth'ng WAS given out az 10 what was said
and done at this meeting, but a Chicago
hotel man made a few remarks on the sub
lect which might indicate the eventual
Method Of the hotel people in dealing with
the thIoving guests.
No single hotel in a city can carry out any
pan for the extinction of the class Of guests
who make 1t H practice to steal" he said.
! know, because ! tried n scheme Of my
owl. a good scheme, and | lost out on It.
lad to give il up. II all the other pro-
pre'ors Of first class hotels in my town
hsd cooperated with mo IN the plan ! would
nave won; hut they worc afraid to take q
'hance, I wasn't afraid at first. hut after
wing the thing ont for nearly a year had
- give Ia III, ! found that there wasn't any
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$40, 700 and an invitation to Newport-that
was all the plank between her and star
vation. She saved enough for a return
ticket and all the rest went for clothes,
every cent. She went to Newport deter
mined to land something. She's down
that aisle over there now shifting. If some
of the rest Of us bad had a little Of her
daring. who knows? We might have hus-
bands who would be putting up for us to
sniff at 500 gowns
A shopgirl steals a look at herself in one.
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Work OF n Pipe line Walker.

FT0n fNC VNiI1dU DHi0 HCrUTH. .
Jack liovcy has walked over the Tide
water pipe line from liiAford, MckcHn county
to Wiliamsport continuously during the last
twenty-siN year,.
III makes from eight TO iweUty-ons nulaa
q day, carrying a XII of tools Neiglinc about
sixty pounds. among which T. u icl' graph
instrument, " hiCh, IN case of bJt4ks or Of Ter
accidents. he attaches TO IN" company wire
which follow n" hns, and Informs head
quarters at Wiiliunspu II digiHnCe u
itj miles ~ the line t9n.. 10 and, down hili,
forests, forty miles Of " beng through the
dense Potter county woods. with scarcely
a habitation along tho route.
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BARGAIN DAY ON TIE AVENUE
uvARKED DOWN TO SG52' INTER
ESTS THE RICH.

so,t .s Much Pulling n Hauling for q
800 Hat Uptown as for q SH.IO Hat
on Grand street-Frank Comments OF
the BuYerS-The False Hair Problem.
About twice a year a big shop on upper
Fifth Avenue turns itself loose in a bargain
day. and if you think that stepping on toes.
cailipg names with eyes and tongues, brush
inc. squeezing, snatching, squealing, elbow
ticking and knee knocking are confined to
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two OF tw~enty-nine cent ending to their
tag?' asks a suburban woman.
why. don't you know?' and her CON-
panion has the air of one of,the elect. "All
VI swaggerest shops commenced down
on the Bowery; that's where they got their
first inkling Of STYLE but they can't break
away from the fashion of adding q few
extra cents, even il they are on upper Fifth
avenue"
That's what l tell my husband, said the
OF Towner, making a mentalleap. when
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out. You don't think you wlll2 Too much?
Too muoh2 Why, you can't mean it's too
much. Only 1875 l said, and look at the
handwork, why the handwork alone, well,
Of course"
And to the next
'Yes'm, every stitch hand work, It amt
been as near q machine as across n room
l think these princess dresses look 80
swell on long, slim figures like yours. Now
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is tagged and on each tag is written the
usual price and the bargain price.
My dear, did you ever see such a bargain2
That peculiar shade Of cerise. have never
seen it anywhere else but at Douoet's.
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PLAIN THIEVING FROM HOTELS
SOUVENIR" TALK ALL ROT, SAYS
ONE MANAGER.

Make People Pay or Arrest Them. Says He,
and Some Day the Hotel Proprietors
Viii Combine on q Scheme His Own
Experience With Restaurant Detectives.