Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-22

and dismissed with scant speech. but the
young couples admitted.
1.-The women Of the couples did all of
the examining and all Of the talking.
The man folks just stood around on one
foot and then on the other and looked
neutral and sad and bored throughout
the entire proceeding.
said one OF the women to my wife with
noble condescension. But then, too,
you've got a lot Of awful truck here that
l wouldn't have for any money
Yes said my wife, glancing at me
with laughter in her eyes-she sees laughs
in things where l only see knocks.
oh. not for any money, the business
like young woman went on. while her
husband tried to catch her eye. But I'll
tell YOU just what we can and will do
We like to be frank and aboveboard
about these things, don't we, Eggie? ad-
dressing the melancholy man. Well give
you $50. cash on the nail, for what
you've got, including the piano
We'll, that made me so sore that | had
to scamper out of the room for fear that
Id say something ornery. and | left to
my. wife the job OF getting rid of that
couple.
Another woman. also accompanied by
a whipped-looking husband, went through
the fiat like the general of an army on
a tour Of inspection. She said hardly a
word, but just scowled at our furniture,
and she shook her head over it in q
mighty overpowering, reducing sort of a
way.
Well, she said to me after her i'm
pressive march throughout the entire
plant, there are four or five pieces here
that maybe I'd talk business with you
about il you did the right thing. The
piano. the parlor cabinet. the writing
desk, that mahogany chair in the parlor,
that writing desk and that ormulu clock
what do you want for the lot? Now.
your selling price, remember-no tuckins
it on
stuff was only to be sold in one, lot,
'Humbus and nonsense! she was
good enough to chop hsSk atsme. You'll
never sell it as .1bf There's a lot of
stuff here that MoDody''d even look at.
Come. now. and lets not waste any more
time. What do you want for the pieces
/ have named?'
Again l executed disappearance.
being afraid OF my temper. and permitted
my wife to nudge this one and her whip
ped husband to the door.
Huh. Dye mean to tell me that
you've only had this stuff for one year,
another woman said to the wife and
with a tone and manner that was plainly
intended to toss us into the Ananias Club
in a heap. Well. of course. folks selling
stuff in a hurry like this have to say
something Wen give you 500 for it.
won't we. Ed?'
Ed nodded affirmatively. and they. too.
were out OF the hall door in something
shorter than jigtfme.
IAN told, received about sixty people
NOT counting the Dealers who professed
to be interested in my furniture. The
highest price l was offered for the whole
layout OF furniture was $500. So l sent
the whole layout of stuff to an auction
room, and when it was finally disposed
of the auctioneer told me I was darned
lucky to we got S311.25 out of it, not
counting his percentage for auctioning
il off.
80 don't ina gine that your furniture is
an asset. If l ever am crazy enough
again to buy any more furniture. why.
when I get through with it for any rea-
son, I'm going to distribute it among my
friends by way of souvenirs and earn the
name of being a generous duck, anyhow.
There'd be more satisfaction in that sys-
tenn than in giving it away to people one
doesn't know
CLARENCE l. CULLEN.