The Washington herald., 1908-08-16
THEY'RE VERY NICE IN STORES
When Customers Break Things or
Damage Goods Accidentally

Damage Goods Accidentally
I've been waiting for years she said.
/ 80 see somebody crop something n the
/ c-Ockery department OF some store. and
( to-day I saw t. When went fl a mother
I ard her daughter were looking at dinner
sets. and ~ thai moment the daughter
I had in her hands a cup and saucer which
[ she was looking over. and I hadn't been
! there half a minute before the tragedy Z
/ had been so long looking for happened
/ She dropped the cup. And Il vent down
I with a crash
{ The mother kept calm and the GauEh-
I rsr tried 20. ard s-a l5E very vel. too.
I but stlIL she ~as frightened as know I
/ should have been Il had dropped il. ard
knew she was waiting 10 see what
I would happen next
a floor walker was right ueaT there
[ walking along slowly vita his hands be-
l hind his back. but the crash didn't seem
Z 20 shock him at all He simply turned
slowly halt around % man standing
near with 6 brush aEl -s1 kept calmly
along. quite unrUfEeS- G. ! the man with
. the brush came and b..- ed Up The lraE-
meu-s Of the broken CO.. and that's all
. there was 10 f. No t-lE- 5y, not even any
{ comedy and then TIE mother and her
F daush1er went o. looking al the dinner
sets"
Wen said one Of Two other girls 70
whom the first had told this little story
{ once : was IN a store where they had
sale Of silks. and they had a lot OF silks
spread out On q counter and a woman
F customer who came in set down on TOP OF
I those silks bundle and then began look
F Ing at the silks And then presently
T saw that a dark c0Io-ed fluid OF some
sal .= s
stained the silks under II
The saleswOua1 and the customer dis
+ covered il as soon as did and the WON
an who had put the bottle down there
picked i Up. and. O. course the sales
( woman picked up the silks 50 that the
+ fluid couldn't soak any more OF them but
IL had already soaked through three OF
four folds
90 I wondered what was going 70 hap
: pen because here was damage enough
{ done 10 amount 20 something But the
/ woman customer kept her head beautiful
. " she was very sor-y naturally but she
didn't get scared al all and the sales
woman kept CCc-. and when The floor
walker came along he kept his head and
was very polite and nice He assured
the Gus A .e- that the damage was slight
and reaHy not worth considering II
fact they were Just as nice about il as
#
I 20 L. except. Of course. that the woman
+ customer lost whatever there Vas in thas
+ bottle
Now. here IS something said the
i third girl that happened 10 ne. There
T in a store where they keep OF a counter
/ some jarB Of sachet powder. and when I
{ went into that store If was near that
7 counter used 70 pick up one Of those
{ jars that contained a powder that I liked
and take a little sniff OF The powder.
Well this bottle stood at the back end of
. the row over by the back Of the counter.
. and one dav when I set that bottle back
somehow. 7 don't know how. set It
/ hack over the edge Of the counter and
down II went
/ '' You talk about what happened when
/ the girl dropped the cup Why when
{ that bottle struck tle-foor e sounded 70
! ne as If a whole Crockery store had fall
en- down
'. But the salesman said that was moth
( ing Why. he said. those bottles were
I falling of the counter all lie time and
J there wasn't much in that one anyway.
which was true. and that was one thing
/ 10 be thankful for. But he couldn't have
Z haar any nicer about IL Il he has tried 30