Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-03-27
BUTCHER A DIPLOMAT
TURNS HIS KNOWLEDGE OF FAIR
SEX TO ACCOUNT.
Not Averse to Stretching Conscience
by Adding or Deductins a Few
Pounds When They Want to
Know Their Weight.

"See that scale out there" said the
butcher, laying down his knife and
Jerking his finger toward large scale
that was standing outside the butcher
shop. well, / suppose you have the
same idea that most Of my other Gus
toners have. They think keep it
there to weigh meat on. I don't. l
will let you into secret and tell you
why l placed the scale there. 1t is to
weigh my customers on.
You would be surprised If you
knew how many of my customers
desired to be weighed. Most of them
are women and they always bother
me at my busiest time. which is Satur-
day. They think when they come in
here and buy a pound of steak or
chops that in return for their custom
! ought to lay down my work and go
outside and weigh them.
Every one knows how sensitive a
woman is about her weight. II you
tell a woman that she is gaining weight
you might as we'll tell her not come
around and deal with you any more.
They worry a great deal about it. I find
that it pays to be dicreet when you are
weighing a woman. You can judge
from their conversation how much
they think they weigh, and never
shock a woman by telling her she
weighs more,
Don't pay any attention to the
scale If 1t shows that the correct
weight is five or ten pounds more than
the amount the woman said she
weighed Use your head and you will
be able to retain customers. Other
butchers have lost customers because
they made the mistake of telling cor
rect weights.
Most women go to the country in
the summer to gain weight. The best
plan when they come home is to tell
them they gained few pounds. The
| first thing a woman does when she
comes home is to come around here
and have me weigh her. To make
her feel happy and to satisfy her that
her trip to the country has been bene-
| fetal to her health l add few pounds
to the amount the scale registers.
There are many women who do gain
weight while they are in the country.
To these I always tell the correct
weight because, If one of them thought
she was getting too heavy, she might
cut down her purchase of meat.
I'm the winter pursue a different
course Most women like to think they
are getting simmer in the cool months
When they come around to be weighed
I slice off a few pounds from the fig
ures on the scale and send them away
feeling fine. How do / remember their
weight? No, l do not keep a record
of 1t. don't have to. The women do
1t for me. A woman's weight is
one of her chief sources of worriment
and she keeps her weight in mind and
daily informs me Of it. With a little
Quizzing just before they step on the
scales am able to find out just what
they think they weigh, and the rest
Is easy.
THE scale also helps me to improve
my business. Now and then a new
customer drops in. She may be
new in the neighborhood or she may
have been dealing with some other
butcher. II l decide that the new Gus.
toner is a critical person l tell her
my meat is the best in the vicinity.
Then request her to step out to the
scale and find out her weight. take
a few pounds off her correct weight
When she has been patronizing me
for a month / weigh her again. This
! time l add few pounds and she goes
| home with the impression that she
is growing heavier without getting
stout. She gives my meat the credit.
That is tie secret of how manage to
keep my customers dealing with me
80 long,"