| Show why fakiri fakirs thrive the man who buys shoestrings and other small articles from street fakira always alo so because acs gets them or clinks be gets them cheaper it is chiefly because men engaged in business are usually so absentminded that trifles of everyday use are near thought of unless they are pushed right under the business nose As a ame me stuff bought of street benders venders costs two to five times as much as it would in a legitimate store but it is on this single weakness of mankind that the street lives and thrives A man will fool a broken shoestring a dozen mornings before he will remember to get a new pair then suddenly during a busy day he runs against a shoestring peddler ind buys a pair on the spot paying bouble price for what his dealer would ive him for nothing the fakiri fakirs thrive best in the closest centers down in wall aind most busy and broad and new and nassau among the bankers and brokers and law who are too busy to think ot susi ponders and shoestrings and lead pencils etc the street fakiri fakirs fare well for amid the roar of clashing millions the absentminded man clutches hastily on what comes uppermost knowing that otherwise hell forget all about it new york herald |
