| Show SHE GOT THE CLOTH A Smart Woitus Manipulation of a Clever Little Trick Louisville Commercial There are callings open to both men and women by which they can gain a livelihood but when it comes to the old confidence confi-dence game as a means of living men must step back and take off heir bats to i the ladle To be sure there are not as many women up to this racket as tHere are men but those who are knowing ones are geniuses at the I business They could make a killing 1 where nine con men out often of-ten would have to either starve or work honestly for a living It was not Ions ago that this was moi > t powerfully illustrated and to the sorrow of a clerk in the linen department depart-ment of a Market street firm A well known matrongrwho lives in the fashionable fash-ionable portion of the city is the heroine of this tragedy fine was out for what she could gt and incidentally incident-ally wished to purchase a tablecloth She entered the house of the firm and going to the jinen department asked the clerk what a certain tablecloth which was in the stock was worth He priced them ftrmher at 53 This did not suit at all and after an argument some minutes finally persuaded him to sell the tablecloth for 250 When she got the poor clerk to this stage she had him just where she wanted him She looked the tablecloth over once more and then remarked thai she could get a tablecloth table-cloth at another place for the same price S The clerk feeling sore because he had allowed a woman to beat him dcivn replied Well if you can Ill give you this clcthYou You will she answered eagerly All right Just wait here a minute She left the store and going to the other place asked the head clerk to show her a tablecloth of the kind she had just seen at the othar store It was priced at 3 but this did not daunt her She said They tell roe over at Soandsos that if you let me have a tablecloth like this for 250 they will give me 0110 Of course the clerk immediately let j I her have one for 250 Taking the i I ticket and the cloth she returned to i the clerk There she said showing it to him I got It for 250 No proof was wanting to convince the clerk that she had sot it at that price so he gave her the cloth and charged himself with it Then this lady returned with the purchased cloth to the other place aAd i got credit on it after which she went i on her way rejoicing just one 3 tablecloth table-cloth in |
