The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-22


 pale blue. checked ones for the twin bed, in her room.
 'oh if I were only the kind who hat enough money to buy bargains when the, are really bargainsi'' sighed Anne ..Bu after all. it's better because I'd nevel be able to keep them until Christmas rs give every single blessed one of then away long before that timei'
 After the conversation with Peggy and a round of shopping" continued anne T went out to forage around for myself bit and while I was looking for bar. gains l heard some quite clever shop ping philosophy from one of the sales women iE the big department store where 1 have been trading ever since | was knee high to a duck
 "Tell us about it. begged the eho- rus.
 'Of course. a womans prejudice is 8 hard thing to conquer.' said this clever saleswoman, who, by the way. is also buyer" for her department, but We know il exists, and it's up to us to meet it."
 suppose you encounter il in the most unexpected ways suggest.d Anne. as she observed the anable sales woman just a moment before telling an agitated customer that they no longer carried certain brand of stockings but that they had something equally as good, and the customer had stormed and said she didn't want them, but wanted the purple top and toe stock ing she'd been wearing for ages.
 My ideal lady," the saleswoman re piled to Annes question. i've never know where 1t is going to break oui next. For instance. there is the woman who will never have any kind of tea pot except the kind known as Rebeeea --at=-the-weli. Most certainly the style of the decoration has nothing to do with the taste of the tea, and while she admits that, she flatly fuses to look at the other 57 varieties of tea pots we carry and passes on to another shop searching for something that will have the amiahle Rebecca portrayed thereon
 Then comes tn woman who will not buy but one certain kind of tea tow cling said the saleswoman The kind with a border of red or blue, according to her taste in the matter. The crash is exactly the same with either border. yet she looks with distressful eye upon the woman who chooses the blue bordered ones for sine feels morally sure that the red border is the best If she is a regular cus- toner and we know her little pecu- liarities we never argue with her, but humor her in all her little foolish whims and airs"
 How much patience it all requires" observed Anne.
 More than that of Job. the sales woman replied. "Tal1e the housekeeper who has used a certain kind of egg beater all the days of her life and you might as we'll try to move a noun tain as to get her to change her opinion about any improvement on the old time beater. She knows all there is to know about cooking utensils and as for new labor saving devices, she turns up her nose loftily at them. Our sale with such things as fireless cookers and other modern improvements is al- most exclusively with the younger housekeepers."
 "1t's in the matter of taste as to re- frigerators." continued the sa1eswoman that the most pronounced preJudiees exist. Why woman will not buy new style ice box to save your life. mean a certain type of woman. She still hangs to the old-fashioned kind, her mother. and maybe her grand l.mother used to use, and you might as we'll try to change the tide of the ocean as to change her mind about any thing in that line. She's the really impossible customer.
 Do you endeavor to conquer any of these feminine prejudices?' asked Anne curiously.
 Instead of trying to conquer them. we cater to them.' said the sales woman. I've never try to argue with them. It is bad policy It takes up | a lot of time and gains nothing for either the customer or the saleswoman. If a person knows beyond a doubt that they save time by going to cer- tain shops to get what they want, we have gained a satisfied customer land in these days of competition that's the secret of the game"