Show A Yankee Trade The old Yankee skill at driving a bargain Is not being lost A woman visitor at a fashionable resort on the Maine coast last summer went to the Universalist church In the place tho first Sunday morning of her stay and was politely shown to a seat There was no hymn book however but the occupant of the pow behind her reached over and placed one In her hands At the close of the service tho visitor turned and thanked the person saying as she was to attend that church all summer she would Hko to buy a hymn took Well said the other woman I guess you can have that book If youll give mo a pair of black gloves No7 Very well said the visitor The next day she went to Portsmouth purchased the No 7 black gloves for 150 and duly received re-ceived the use of the hymnal In exchange ex-change for them on the following Sunday Sun-day Boston Herald |