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Show The Clrk and th "Lontcer." The BaWmncA have sumo dlsiigroenble experiences with customers, and it is so modules mo-dules hard for them lo keep their temper, The worst fiend they encounter is tho Woman who is "only looking." She will approach a counter and immediately spread herself all over it. She asks tosee some calico of a certain print; this doea not. suit her, and she asks for another pattern, only to put It away aud call for boinethiug else. After the third call the clerk begins to grow auspicious; "she'a 'a looker,' " ho says to himself. Still uho goes on calling for something else. "Haven't you this In redf" "Yes'ni." (The clerk lakes down the desired style.) "Hut I wanted something in red, with lenfy flRiiro; haven't: you something In that liner" ' The clerk looks her over. "Yes, why didn't you nay that was what you wanted?11 "Must I tell you your business; I'm I sure you're tho most perfectly awful Btu- 1 pid man 1 ever saw; your" I Hut, here the desired style is upread be- fore her. It doea not suit. The luaf is too lea in y leafy, or tho figure is too utterly too aesthetic, and she Buddeuly discovers that it was not a red pattern at all that she wanted, but a blue. I Hy this time her ingenuity Is exhausted, ' aud with a sigh Bhe turns away. "I guess 1 won't buy today," Bho says, j "because I'm only looking." D.J. Mc- Grath in Huston Globe.". 1 : |