The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-07-08
A Transaction in
ShirtwaiStS
Copyright, The Frank A. Munsey Company.
BY HOWARD P. RocKEY

haitian Elite Bazaar in the morning
newspapers.
The printed words that told the
bazaar's customers of the wonderful
money-saving purchases awaiting
Galley Twenty Eight
them SCENE to fascinate the stores
proprietor He gazed smilingly across
the street at the windows of the "A
la Mode Store-Iz Katzen, Proprie-
tor"
Il tell you that is foxy business
already what thought OF" continued
Mr.. Bloom with satisfaction, as he lit
cigar. II bought them women's
Alirtwaists last week Of Mark Schef-
ferlin, what went and failed, for If
teen cents each by the gross lot. If
they are worth cent, them shirt
waists would sell for half dollar
already. Il Katzen he wanted them,
but l bought them in before he came
by the sale"
Good business" commented Ike
Levinson, Blooms chief saleman. 1T
seems, though somehow, that no mat
ter what we offer. the crowd always
goes by Katzen's store, and don't buy
nothin' here at all.
IF you knew how to sell goods like
that Teller Goldmark what works by
Katzen, we would sell it so much as
he does" snapped Bloom.
Leyinson oolored,
Anyway, we got 'em gein' this
morning." he said. ut is only nine
o'clock, and already the store is full
of women fighting to get at them
sbirtwaists If it keeps up like this,
we won't have none left by another
hour"
"But we don't make no profit on
them shfrtwaists," said Bloom. I'VE
pay for them fifteen cents, and we
sell them for thirteen, so we lose two
cents on each garment we sell. Go
it as a foxy business to get the
crowd in here instead of in Katzen's
place. Now you got to sell smoothing
with good profit in it to every WON
an what buys one of them thirteen
cent shirtwaists, you understand"
Levinson nodded, though he knew
that fully half the shirtwaists had
already been sold, and that the pur-
chasers, without an exception, had
hurried off without even so much as
looking over the other merchandise
displayed in the store.
AS he was about to withdraw from
the office, Bloom uttered a violent
exclamation, and the cigar dropped
from between his teeth.
"Well what dye think Of that?" he
shouted, striding toward the window
"Will you look toward hats etac
"Will you look what that IL Katzen
is up to now?"
AS he spoke, there was pasted
across the big show window of the
A la Mode Store a gigantic sign an.
nouncing a special sale of shirt
waists-twelve cents, marked down
from fifty cents-the same garments
sold by our competitors at higher
prices" Even as the sign was pui
in place the grinning countenanct
of Mr.. Katzen appeared in the door
way of his establishment.
''And he has the nerve to make
faces to met" shouted Bloom wrath
fully. Honest, Leviqson, if had me
face like that Katzen | would all
time stay in the house, from consid-
Grafton of other peoplel"
A saleswoman was arranging sew
eral shirtwaists in the window op-
posite. Even at that distance, Bloom
could see that they were identical
with those he had advertised.
sThat loafer seen my advertise
ment, and fixed up this sale to do
mel" shrieked Bloom. What | don's
see is where he got the goods. Pm
going to make that Mark Schefferin
arrested already He sold me those
goods with the understanding was
to get them all, and he must have
held out some on me to sell Katzen!"
Levinson was looking out through
| the swinging door into the store He
started, and looked intently at a
young woman just paying for one OF
| the bargain shirtwaists.
Seems to me seen her before
some time" he said. What is it?"
he asked, as young salesgirl en-
tered
.Alr them thirteen-cent shirtwaists
is gone already, Mr.. Levinson," she
said. I'VE just sold the last one
Why, some customers took three OF
four. and there was a regular prize
fight to get them"
"All gomez" shrieked Bloom.
WELL" said Leyinson, "Katzer
can't hurt us, then. We sold Oul
stock, and got a cent more on eacf
garment than what he gets"
"Meshuggahl" cried Bloom. What
difference does that make it? VIZ
lose money, anyway, and Katzen geti
the credit of selling cheaper thar
we dol"
The young woman Levineson hat
been watching, picked up her bundle
and walked hurriedly out Of the store
Excuse me-" he said. I got
idea~
"A idea?" Bloom called after him
"You better look out! If you did sc
q idea it would kiln you"