Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14

especially animals that you wouldn't ex-
pect to find In the downtown districts.
There is a man who has little store on
PENNSYLVANIA avenue and who, until re-
Gently, found the greatest difficulty In
getting anybody to come into 1t. The
great American public didn't have any
thing particularly against his store. 1t
Just didn't know that the store was
there.
This man figured various ways of
bringing crowd After divers plans
had been gone over and rejected, a
friend came to him.
Guinea pigs whispered the friend.
The storekeeper said:
81 have known you for years and l
have the greatest respect for your fam
lily. But If you come around here try
ing to kid me when I am on the verge
of bankruptcy I am going to main you.
Be warned in time"
I'm not kidding you.'' explained the
friend. You just take my tip. Put
couple Of guinea pigs in your window
In a week." interjected the store
keeper, bitterly, II will be living on the
| roof and this place will be turned over
to the guinea pigs"
NO." replied the friend, patiently. In
week you will have half of Washing
ton in front of your store.
The storekeeper tried it. not because
he had any hope of its success, but be-
| cause he had no other plan in mind
The first person to pass the store next
day was a woman who had been passing
regularly for couple of years. First
she stared at the store as one stares al
face that is vaguely familiar, put
which cannot be exactly placed. Then
she walked to the show window wherein
reposed the guinea pigs On her face
was look of fascination. If one OF
those guinea pigs had possessed six legs
or two heads she could not have been
more pleased.
Presently another woman and a man
joined her, and the three, in silent JOY,
placed their noses against the glass and
stared. Two, three and half a dozen
more came to the window. While they
were taking their look the hrst woman
hurried inside
Are those animals for sale?' she
asked the shopkeeper.
mo, madam" he replied, "but I have
some of the finest white linen goods"
He did land office business that day
And he felt genuine regret when the
pigs had to be sent away.
A man might go into hotel wash
room or store or almost any other
place and take off his collar and put
| it on again without attracting as much
notice as a glass of water in a prohibit
ton town. But let him get in a show
window and do the same stunt and see
what happens.
The Observer saw one. He was TAX
ing his collar off and replacing it in a
simple, businesslike fashion. He was
advertising one of those new-fangled,
double oifrted collar buttons that
wear beautifully for three days and
| then break with loud report, when
you are trying to talk impressAvely to
a public official. There was abso-
! Iutely nothing conspicuous about the
man unless it was his Adams apple.
But the crowd looked at him as a
throng of Fiji Islanders might gaze
upon a pair of trousers.
| Gosh. he does it quick" said one
man, who probably could have cut
five seconds off the exhibitors time
when hurrying down to breakfast.
| Doesn't miss a move" comm ented
another, whose method of removing
his collar was to grasp it by the back
and yank.
wonder what he gets?" said third.