Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-14
BREAKING THINGS IN STORES.
What Happens When tho Customer
Damages the Goods.

W hat Happens ~ men THO
Damages tho Goods.
"Ive been waiting for years, she
said to New York Sun writer, ito see
somebody drop something in the crock
cry department Of some store and To-
day [ saw It, When 1 went in mother
and her daughter were looking at din
ner sets and at that moment the daugh-
ter had in her hands a cup and saucer
which she was looking over, and
hadn't been there half minute before
the tragedy had been so long looking
for happened. She dropped the cup.
And it went down with a crash.
"The mother kept calm and the
daughter tried to, and she did very
well. too. but still she was frightened,
as l know should have been if | had
dropped it, and knew she was wait
Ing to see what would happen next, as
1 know 1 was, but everything went of
very nicely.
az f1oorwaIker was right near there,
walking along slowly with his hands be-
hind his back, but the crash didn't seem
to shock him at all. He simply turned
slowly half around to q man standing
near with a brush, and then kept calm
~ along, quite unruffled, and the man
with the brush came and brushed up
the fragments of the broken cup, and
that's all there was to it. No tragedy,
not even any comedy, and then the
mother and her daughter went on look
ing at dinner sets.
well" said one of two other girls to
Whom the first had told this little story,
"once l was in a store where they had
sale of silks, and they had lot Of
silks spread out on a counter and a
woman customer who came in set down
on top of those silks bundle and then
began looking at the silks. And then
presently 1 saw that a dark-cOlored
fluid Of some sort had leaked out Of
that bundle and stained the silks un-
der it.
''The saleswoman and the customer
discovered it as soon as [ did and the
woman who had put the bottle down
there picked it up and, Of course, the
saleswoman picked up the silks so that
the fluid couldn't soak any more Of
them, but it had already soaked through
three OF four folds.
II wondered what was going to hap
pen, because here was damage enough
done to amount to something. But the
woman customer kept her head beauti-
fully. She was very sorry naturally,
but she didn't get scared at all and the
saleswoman kept cool and when the
| fiOorwalker came along he kept his head
and was very police and nice. He as
sured the customer that the damage
was slight and really not worth con-
sidering. In fact, they were just as
nice about it as they could be, and that
was all there was to it, ercept, Of
| course, that the woman customer lost
whatever there was in the bottle"
Now, here is something" said the
third girl, ''that happened to me. There
is store where they keep OH q counter
some Jars of sachet powder, aud when
went into that store if l was near
that counter 1 used to pick up one Of
those jars that contained powder that
| ! liked, and take a little sniff of the
powder. Well, this bottle stood at the
back end of the row over by the back
IF the counter and one day When 7 set
that bottle back somehow, l dcn't know
how, / set 1t back over the edge Of the
COUNTER set it on the air and down
1T went
you talk about what happened when
the girl dropped the cup. Why, when
that bottle struck the Aoor it sounded
to me as If whole croclzery store had
| fallen down.
'But the salesman said that was
nothing. Why, he said, those bottles
were falling off the counter all the
time and there wasn't much in that
one anyway, which was true, and that
was one thing to be thankful for. But
he couldn't have been any nicer about
| it if he had tried
| Famous Epicur0S.
| Tn fhe ceiling Of the dining room in