The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-12-04
BREAKING THINGS IN STORES.
What Happens When a Customer Dam.
ages the Goods.

I've been waiting for years" she
said 10 New York Sun writer. TO see
somebody drop something In the crock
cry department OF some store, and to-
day ! saw II. When | went In a
mother and her daughter were looking
nj dinner sets. and at that moment
the daughter had in her hands 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 IL 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 | know / should have been If had
ropped H. and | knew she was wait
ing to zee what would happen next, as
] know ] was, but everything went of
very nicely.
"A fiOorwalker was right near there,
walking along slowly with his hands
behind his back. but the crash didn't
seem TO shock him at all. He simply
turned slowly half around TO a man
standing near with brush, and then
kept calmly along quite unrufIled, and
the man with the brush came and
brushed up the fragments of the brok-
en- cup, and that's all there was 10 IL.
No tragedy, not even any comedy, and
then the mother and her daughter
went on looking at dinner sets"
Well" said one OF two other girls
TO whom the first had told this little
story, "once | was I'm a store where
they had a sale OF silks, and they had
a lot OF silks spread out on a counter,
and woman customer who came in
set down on top of those silks bun
die and then began looking al the
silks. And then presently | saw that
a dark-cOlored fluid of some sort had
leaked out OF that bundle and stained
the silks under H.
The saleswoman and the customer
discovered il as soon as | did, and the
woman who had put the bundle down
there picked IL 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 or four folds.
Il 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 polite and nice
He assured the customer that the dam.
age was slight and really not worth
considering In fact. they were just
as nice about II as they could be. and
that was all there was TO II. except. OF
course. that the woman customer losi
whatever there was in the bundle"
Now. here is something" said the
third girl. that happened TO me
There Is a store where they keep on {
counter some Jars OF sachet powder
and when | went into that store, II
was near that counter. | would picl
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. ovel
by the back OF the counter. and one
day. when | set that bottle back, some
how. don't know how, ! set ii baci
over the edge OF the counter-I Sc
II on the air. and down IL went.
you talk about what happened
when the girl dropped the cup. Why
when that bottle struck the floor !
sounded 10 me as If a whole crockerl
store had fallen down.
But the salesman said that wai
nothing. Why. he said those bottles
were falling of the counter all tn
time, and there wasn't much in tina
one. anyway. which was true, and tina
was one thing TO be thankful for. Blu
he couldn't have been any nicer abou
il If he had tried"