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Show USES TOMATOES AS WEAPONS Woman Vendor Also Effectively Bombards Bom-bards Kimonoed Customer With the Scale Weights. The high cost of things generally Including tomatoes was directly re- . sponsible for the loudest case heard In the Yorkville court, a case reflecting the difference in shopping tactics to be observed in various segments of a large city, says the New York Herald. Mrs. Anna Saconne was present in a cerise Kimono and bandages to complain com-plain 'of the commercial tactics of Mrs. Coneetta Fasano, a traveling saleswoman sales-woman for tomatoes. According to the evidence, Mrs. Saconne was complaining com-plaining of the price and condition of the tomatoes sold by Mrs. Fasano, when she suddenly received a -one-pound weight in the direct center of the forehead, and was subsequently bombarded with other weights ranging from a quarter of a pound to three pounds, after which a deluge of tomatoes toma-toes wrecked another azure blue kimono ki-mono which Mrs. Saconne wears when tomato shopping. "Why this?" asked the magistrate of Mrs. Fasano. "She buy notheeng and talka too mooch," explained Mrs. Fasano. "If she joost buya sometheeng an' walk away, all right, shut up, but sjie no buys sometheeng and says averytheeng ees no good. I slnppa da face ; she talks. I trow da weight ; she talks. I trow da fruit ; she talks. She talk, she talk, she talk. She no buy soom-theeng; soom-theeng; she talk, she talk, she talk. How mooch?" "Five dollars." answered the magistrate, mag-istrate, and the fine was paid. |