Show N H iI STORE RULES RUSES By Norman A A. A D Dishes THE pHE clerk newly moved from the second floor to the third floor of the Emporium straightened his big tie coughed and looked again at the elderly lady sitting on tho the cola lofa In the lounge section of the furniture department She was small and neat with her hair gathered gath gathered ered In a knot beneath her small bat Finally the clerk derk decided to approach her Pardon me madam Is there something I can do for you Why thank you ou no she re- re plied piled I X thought perhaps you ou were waitIng wait wait- In Ing to see something Oh no no I sit here every day X J come coma in the e morning and just sit alt here bere until noon and then sometimes some some- sometimes times my friends have lunch with me Then I sit here in the afternoon after noon noon and visit with all sorts of people until unta the store closes doses and nd Its It's time to go home The clerk stared at her with that sort lort of I wonder If this lad lady sa quite alright look Jook The little lady tab recognized the look No N Im I'm Quite sane Its It's Just that I live Uve all aU alone in a very man ernan house hOUIe and I get so lonely I t have no relatives I came here one day to shop and I found this lounge on the third floor so I sat down to rest relt I J decided this was a anice anice anice nice place to meet people S See e Does Doe the management know about bout this Well Wen the young man that had this WI floor until yesterday Just let me sit lit here as a. long as I wished The other young man was wal very nice did you know him Yes Yel but he was fired for disagreeing dis agreeing with the manager over some lome point Say how long have you been doing this I 1 dont don't know the clerk hesitated hesitated hesi- hesi Im sure it must be against the store rules What's your name Martha Tillman Well Martha Ill I'll have to speak to to the manager about it I X dont don't want to get into trouble Oh I J dont don't want to cause you OU any trouble Martha assured him Ill IU speak peak to Mr Halley about It t. t hes he's in charge and he he- should know whether its it's alright or not not Tho The clerk left and Martha wondered won won- dered if she were going to have to stop top coming comlos to the tho store It wasso was wasso so 10 nice to be able to sit and talk to people It was so lonely in her small mall house Hello hello Martha a voice Interrupted her thoughts Why hello Johnny Martha replied re re- plied pIled Johnny was a tall tan good lookIng looking looking look- look ing boy I heard you OU lost your Job Johnny Yep but Im I'm not worried It was only because I disagreed with Mr Halley about the arrangement of some displays He hates to be contradicted by a clerk Oh well so it goes Did you meet tho the new clerk Yes I did Johnny but I dont don't think he likes me I 1 think hes he's frightened about keeping his Job Everyone is really decent Johnny John John- JOhn JOhn-I ny some ome people worry a lot that's that alt all Martha looked at Johnnys Johnny's face Maybe so 10 so but he must worry a lot Well Wen I have to go I have an appointment at The Tho Personnel Manager is a neighbor of I mine and he offered me a Job as a. manager of their furniture department department depart depart- ment Why Johnny that's fine Do Dothe the they have a rest lounge lounie over there I think so 10 yes yea they do Why Well I was wal just thinking if It wasn't against the rules rule maybe I could just jut as well sit over there I would meet a lot of new peo peo- pie Marthas Martha's eyes sparkled Why not by gosh if I run the floor you can pitch a tent there if you want I Johnny smiled ather at ather her The floor finor clerk was just returnIng returning return return- Ing as Martha and Johnny got upU up If U anyone should ask you about me tell them Ill I'll be over in the swank lounge in the furniture department de of State wells she told him Then she turned on her toes and marched off down the stairs hanging daintily on Johnnys Johnny's arm |