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Show HOLES IN OTHER STOCKING Aristocratic Customer Undone by Impatient Im-patient Clerk, Who Pulled Off the Wrong Shoe. The aristocratic and plutocratic looking young woman walked into the downtown shoe store, says the Indianapolis Indian-apolis News, and demanded a fitting. (Demanded was the tone of voice.) Majestically she lowered herself into the regulation seat proffered her by the manager of the department and he nssigned Classy Charles, the niftiest matinee idol in the shop, to the customer. cus-tomer. The woman began by asking to see everything that was shown In the window win-dow outside. Classy C. started out to fill the order. He did. But none of the shoes were good enough for madam's dainty foot. As the day wore on and the customer stayed, O. C. began to perspire. The cither clerks looked on and grinned. Not that they disliked Charles, but, well, there was a feeling among the fellows about him. All this did not change the expression on Charley's Char-ley's face. It remained, that same winning smile. But finally after about half the stock had been laid out for inspection, in-spection, the manager whispered to Charles, "Are you that rotten?" Which made Charles as mad as could be. He forgot himself. lie violated the first rule of etiquette of the shoe clerk. (No, it is the second ; the first' is to hand out the usual line about the quality, etc.) He yanked off her left shoe. Lo, and behold, the stocking on the left foot was full of holes! If i the right one was perfect, what a flaw in the woman's other piece of hosiery I The clerks gasped. The woman screamed. scream-ed. The other boys laughed. Then with a sigh of it-can't-be-helped, she remarked : "But we won't mind the holes." She bought a pair of tennis shoes, high tops, ten minutes later. |