The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-17


wv pretty near always carried as
side line" said Jacob Plot
kin 20 p Rashknd RS they concluded
their luncheon in Wasserhauer's Cafe,
whereas former times there was plenty
fcllers running stores where they sold
books eyclusjvely"
y. Rashkind shrugged his shoulders.
BELIEVE ne. flotkin." he said, 'tf
abraham Carnegie would go to work and
build buildings where a Teller could ge'
FREQ Tor n week the loan OF a pair Of
pants. understand. and then go back
and exchange 'em for another pair of
pants In weeks time, understand ne,
or even sooner II the goods didn't suit
HIM understand. why, then. all them
fei,ers which now runs pants business
exclusively, Flotkin, would also got TO
close up"
- Der lots ~ people buys books, Plot
Kin protested "ptheruise why should
g gar stores and drug stores carry them
as a side line ~
Even II there vas Carnegie Free
Pants Libraries. Plotkin. cigar stores
and drug stores would also carry pants
as a side line" Rashkind declared, "he-
cause there is plenty people which In got
Just so much prejudice against second
hand pants as they got Il against sec
ond hand books
At this jrncture Louis Gurin, tho Zeal
estater. brought his chair from the next
table and Joined in the conversation.
For my part the books In a Carnegie
Library could he second hand oder new
like a buffalo nickel. Rashkind," he said,
land II wouldn't worry me one way or
the other The way real estate Is dead
nowadays, Rashkind, I got enough TO do
to make a decent living without should
bother my head NIT books
Then seemingly you Amt making =
decent living at ALL" Plotkin commented
drylN.
why not" Gurin asked.
Because il would he tho same II you
was so busy making a decent living that
YOU couldn't bother YOUR head nit pants,
Gurin." Plotkin continued. Books Ia
just 50 necessary to decent living as
pants is Gurin, otherwise the word
decent amt in the directory at all"
C;urin was still bordering this dlctum
when Rashknd me to Plotkins assist.
ance.
"Yes. Gurln," he said. ~ ncople was
Just so much ashamed Of having nothing
on their brains as they are about hsv-
ing nothing on their bodies, Gurin. they
would not only he acting whole lot
more decent, understand. hut the book
hue ness would still he business Ike
the pants business. instead OF side
line in cigar and drug stores"
Il could keep something on my brain
without books. Rashkind," Gurin said.
80 YOU would look around You and see
what other people is doing and saying,
Rashkind, you would find out there is
lots of things to he learned outside of
books
Rashkind nodded satirically.
sure 7 know, Gurin," he said. From
meeting real estaters and fellers IN the
button business and once in a while a
cloak and suit manufacturer. y'under-
stand I would get to be regular tai.
mudist supposing ] kept my ears open
| and lived 10 he five hundred years old.
Everybody don't got to be a talmud-
lat exactly" Ciurin protested.
Even So Plotkin said. '1earnine
| things by experience In pretty slow
Gur1n, and YOU are apt to get your wife
sore at you also Gurin, because when a
| feller Is learning by experience. he
couldn't stay home much, whereas a fel.
Ter could sit In his own fiat NIT a book
C;urin. and learn just So much abou,
| life In week as he could by loaiinl
around restaurants and coffee houses for
ten years"
"a whole lot about life a Teller learns
II In books" Gurin exclaimed "Wher
was n young Teller did used to read
It In books, Plotkin. but I give It up ir
disgust, All that books tells about Is
tho troubles the people gets themselve,
into. and what people do outside If tina,
you couldn't find ou, at all. ! bet yel