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Show DRUG STORE AS FITTINQ ROOM. Precedent Clerk Hopes Will Not Be Generally Followed. Tho drug clerk said ho didn't mind it thut ono tlmo; still ho did hope It wouldn't becomo a fad. "I don't know how the rest ot the customers would feel about It," ho said. "Personally, I don't think 1 should mind. I llko to be accommo-. dating. That Is why I said: 'Yes' when j the woman with red hair asked It alio might stand bcfnro tho long mirror to ' the right ot tho soda fountain and turn up the horn of her new skirt. I have no long mirror at home,' sho said, 'and It Is so hard to get a skirt to hang oven around tho bottom when you have nothlns to look Into except one ot thosctdlnky little glasses found In most boarding houses.' "Well, when sho feot my permission to turn tho drug sore Into a fUtlns room, aho hustled away and presently she returned with tho new skirt and a paper ot pins. Sho slipped that skirt over the one sho wore, as cool as' any-thlr.c, any-thlr.c, and then for halt an hour sho teetered and tilted around In front ot that mirror, turning up the hem. I felt n little embarrassed myself, but she didn't mind. Dut maybo that was bo-cause bo-cause the skirt looked so nice. Still, as I said hoforo, I hopo turning up hems In front ot this glass won't bo-come bo-come popular." , q |