| OCR Text |
Show A Few Wordi on Politeness. SaiT Like, May 28, 1878. Civility owes no one anything; but oh, bow much is lost all the time in the business departments of this place for the want of it. People admit ad-mit that the goods are better and the prices lower, and yet are annoyed to thiols they are forced to go away dis-.nnAtn.Ml dis-.nnAtn.Ml simnlv because it is too much trouble to take down a box oi c two more. A Lady. t Quite a number of ladies have com- t plained of the unaccommodating way 1 in which they are treated in some stores. It is a mistaken idea that ( anpbodj' will do to se.l g.iods, for it hat almost become a science and has been studied by only a few in this city. Many merchants lose more by hsving cheap clerk.3, who drive away custom, than if they were to employ good, competent men, and pay them good wages. The old proverb, "penny "pen-ny wise and pound foolish," might he appropriately applied to some. |
