Show Crape Fulleri IJo Well Crape pullers get a twenty per cent commission said tho conservative florist That commission comes off the flowers though he added sneering sneer-ing What Is n crape puller A crape puller Is a man who watching watch-ing the death notices In the newspapers news-papers calls on all the bereaved families fami-lies and solicits orders for flowers for the funeral We call such a man a crape puller contemptuously pretending pretend-ing that he gets indoors by yanking the crape which hangs from the doorbell door-bell A good many florists encourage crape pullingIn fact live on It They have booklets Illustrated with photographs photo-graphs that tell all about the various designs they make With these booklets book-lets the crepe puller can solicit orders In an Intelligible way We conservatives dont encourage crapo pulling We consider it unseemly un-seemly and Indecorous in the first place and in tho second place since the big commission to > the puller comes not out of the pocket of the florist but off the order of the purchaser we consider con-sider it a little dishonest But death Is always with us Florists must live The new guild of tho crape pullers grows by hundreds weeklyNew York Press 0000 |