Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-25
ASTOR.FORCE CASE
 HAS COMIC SIDE
Incidents Are Related That Cause Smile Among New
 York People

NEW YORK, Aug. 2f.--The Astor- Force affair is pretty serious, and yet there are features Of it whicn cause much mirth if not considerable deri- slve laug9ter. Papa Force is Q forwarder; so one Of the paragraphers insists that he considers this agitation in reference to his daughters en- gagement all truck. The brilliant Arthur Brisbane Continuing to take us on his knee and instruct us as to the Droprietiesl. thinks that the most tragic circumstance connected with the engagement is the utterance Of ~oung Vincent Astor to the effect that he Is likely to like his new nam ma very we'll or is willing to do 30. Another circumstance. far funnier, it seems to me, related to one of Colonel Astor's own observations. for. looking at his fance one morning, he asked of the assembled newspapeTmen and photographers:
 Isn't she cute %
 One incident tending 10 Tighten the asperities of this affair, was mentioned by Papa Force himself, but it escaped observation mostly. coming so early in the story and wth such 8 rush. It was when Mir. Foroe called up Colonel Astor on that fateful niornng and called him down for not having pub liclS announced the engagement or for not allowing him (Paps Force) to announce it.
 Miss Force, it seems. is ill from reading SO much about this terrible af. fair. IL is a case of real nervous pros tration.
 Profits in Drug Stores.
 My friend the drug merchant, who is no druggist at all-he is only mer chant, and hence makes a great sue cess of it in the drugstore business thinks of requiring his various clerks and prescription artists. and soda-fountain manipulators, to wear tho white and somewhat spotiess uni form of the hospital atta he. He is wonderfully insistent on having every thing quite clean. One Of his most accomplished graduates in pharamcy had to be discharged the other day because, after repeated warnings, he left the door of one of the showcases open and thus admitted to the com pany of the soap and perfumery a considerable number of house flies.
 There is . very comfortable home al nsosphere in this particular drugstore: canary birds singing on the top Of the soda fountain; an easy chair to sit fin if one is tired; a polite nod of recognition for the new customer as well as the old. whether he comes or goes; the little package, which you order in the morning. all ready for you as you rush to catch the train at evening; every egg for the various egg sd:-:.e!ss fsash aa- daisy that day: quite satisfactory luncheon at the soda fountain at the noon hour. chick en sandwiches and buttermilk and that kind cf thing; and the buttermilE is good or the druggists most unique customer wouldn't come downtown for it from Twenty-third street every day
 Many a New York drug store takes in $500 a day over the soda fountain counter, and anywhere from 90 per cent to 60 per cent of this is profit, more or less-more, if you make the fee cream yourself~and it Is good and goes we'll; less, If you buy all the sup plies There is one drug store in lower Broadway which receives over it's soda fountain counter in year Si22,- eco; but this is very big place, and along with this immense soda fountain business goes a big business general ly. employing probably 200 people right in the building there.