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Show DIDN'T KEEP A DIRECTORY. ' DrurglKt, Whoae Store Adjoint a Laxca Dry Onixli House, llu No Picnic. "I would liko to look at your director, direct-or, please," said I, tho other day, oa entering a drug store oa Sixth avenue, near Nineteenth street. The man la-hind tho counter-looked np with a weary expression atid quietly hook his head. "What's the matter," I asked. "Don't j you keep a directory here?" I Again the lu ad shake was repeated, i and then 1 sought for an explanation. : ; 'Yon see," said tho druggist, "we are I ; right in among all the large dry goods j tore s, and as their customers ire mostly ; : Lilies of more or os3 leisure, our place' ! would bo fairly overrun with womeu all . ! day long if we had a directory there in the window. I 'Yes," lie went on, "we did Veep a rti- ! rectorv once, but it got to bo such nu intolerable in-tolerable nnitaiiteo that wo cither bad to Mod it or close out our business. I believe," be-lieve," taid tho dnrrguit, "that some women liko to go into a drug store and look over tho directory. Not, wind yon, because thev really wish to find out any addresses, but .-imply from pure cu.ed-liess. cu.ed-liess. MuyV j they think it looks businesslike. busi-nesslike. And then, you know, n, drug i utoro is iv jjroat place of rendezvous for ' the ladies who do shopping, and stndy-i...nv,.r stndy-i...nv,.r a dire.-t.jrv helps thein to Uili is . ', I time if tho oth r parly m late. You huvo no idea," ho went on, "ot j the iiuiiilH-r of woiiic who t-top in here ,-vt-ry day a-l aik foolish questions. Whv, sometimes when 1 tell them we don't keep a directory they ask roe whether 1 know whero so-and-so lives, ami a thou-and awl one question b-v hi.lcs that might bo answered in the directory, di-rectory, but wiiich they never stop to consider. And then thco women come in here and want to leave their bundles w hile they do their shopping c-isewliere. Thev hold r-trular coiiversiino-i bees, and interfere with customers passing in and out, ami fairly worry my life out with their petty iiuoilioits and annoyances. "Stamps, did on say, miss;" ho add-bo, add-bo, turuitig to address a young lady who had just entered. "N"o, wine; we do not kip Kt.unps. "I'd have to keep a branch poRtofllce np here," Slid tho umggist us the young ' lady went out, ;;nd then he tnrnod to ; some score or more f ladies who were waiting to receive attention. New York ; ,Urald |