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Show Moral Cowardice of Women. Take a seat at a popular dress counter in any one of the large dry goods stores of New York, and if in the space of one hour you do not see and hear ten sublimated sub-limated prevaricators it will be because trade is slack, the season is over or the weather out of joint. Of every twenty shoppers who stop at the counter to examine ex-amine the dress patterns fully fifteen will retire with a little falsehood on her lips. Either she will "come in again," "send her dressmaker to buy it," "come right back" when she picks out a wrap or looks over another line of cloths, or "think about it and send you a postal." Not one woman in a thousand has the bravery to say, "I don't like it," or "It ia too expensive." They don't seem to understand that it is nothing to the salesman whether she takes it or not, that he is paid to show the goods, and that as a patron of the store she is entitled en-titled to command his services. So great is the moral cowardice of the semi-educated class that they will take a dress pattern, have it sent homeC. O. D., only to be returned by the delivery clerk marked "not t home" or "not wanted." New York Wprld. |