The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-14
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led to paying 70 cents a yard. though she had only intended paying 30.
 Just another sense of business tact.
 Another girl called e favorite cus- toner on the phone just to tell her about the new maribou scarfs that had just come in. There was one in dark blue. "It win just match your blue tailored suit. Shall I put 1t aside?" She did so, and it proved to be a perfect match.
 The purchaser was delighted, though she had no idea of buying.
 All these girls had business tact. What doors 1t opens! Shall we not place it second only to honesty in the list of business virtues?
 The girl with tact finds her oppor- tunities where others pass them by. Her personality draws instead of re- polling. If she's behind a counter you'll find yourself waiting eagerly for her to serve you.
 We are all out of this" and we haven't that" are familiar phrases you never hear her use. Instead She makes you feel she takes Q deep and earnes, interest in your needs. While the piece she shows you isn't quite what you were looking for isn't it possible you like it even better than what you sought? Anyway, you would rather have her serve you than Miss Indif- ference elsewhere.
 And If you feel so isn't it probable that plenty of others feel the same? Day by day her sphere widens. It isn't many months before she tells you blithely she has been promoted to the head of the counter.
 Tact is a light you can't put under a bushel. It is the best of all business assets.
 Nnr aANv rnnH Am HOME LIKE THIS"
 No flowers" has long been a famil- far phrase in obituary announcements, and now "No presents by request" has made its appearance in the newspaper columns in which fashionable engage ments are announced, says London dispatch.
 The first bride elect publicly to emancipate herself from tine tyrannical yoke of the wedding present is Miss Lilion Lutley of Oldha am Priory, Hants, who is to be married this autumn to Mir Harrington Morgan. judge of the civil court of justice in the Sudan. The engaged couple have requested through the press that no presents be sent to them. Letters expressive of good wishes, they add, will be very accept able.
 There are many service people who have lived to wish from the bottom of their hearts that their friends had ab- stained from burdening their lives with well-inteptioned wedding presents, and civil servants who go abroad are. I should imagine, in the same position" said the wife of a naval officer who Is a member of well-known ladies' ser vice club.
 Presents in the form of checks are, of course. acceptable. and jewelry does | not deteriorate with keeping, but for a young couple to attempt to carry to distant lands the heterogeneous collec- tion of silver articles, silk cushions. afternoon tea cloths and glass and china with which their friends have | endowed them is to- saddle themselves | with a very expensive and very useless appendage. T know of a woman who was mar | ried i've years ago and the weddiu c presents are still at the repository where they were sent after the cere- mony," added the lady. SUGGESTIONS FOR HOUsEz<EDPERs Appstizing sandwiches are made oi | salmon and cream ch eese. In washing remember that closely woven goods require less starch thar otherA
 l Dresses with a colored pattern or them should never be hung in the sur | to dry.
 When cleaning house use plenty ol turpentine in the scrub water. Ii | means certain death to moths. In furnishing a room 1t is very poor taste to have more than one kind of wood in the furniture.
 Leftover cereals need not be wasted