Show What He Wanted An Italian recently entered the store of a Portland street hardware and paint dealer says the Boston Record and In his broken English asked tho clerk Johna you gota do machine ma-chine makea hota cold Tho I clerk tried hard to understand what the customer wanted but was unable until he started taking him around the storo and pointed out Individually every conceivable apparatus pertaining pertain-ing to heating In the store Finally tho Italian spied a small spring balance bal-ance suspended on an upper shelf with tho Indicator displayed Johna sec dlsa one ho said Just do sam a kind wid Bummers IImkoa hot a cold You got ono Ho wanted a thermometer |