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Show AS 8EEN BY ENGLISH I: YE 8. Jerome K. Jerome Tells of Methods of German Storekeepers. Perhaps It would he unfair to pencr-allzo pencr-allzo too confidently, hut thcro aro shopkeepers In Qcrmany who mnko no Krcat effort to dlsiKiso of their goods. An Instance of this Is given In "Thrco Men on Wheels." Tho author accompanied accom-panied an American lady on n shopping shop-ping excursion In Munich. She hnd been accustomed to shopping In Ignition Igni-tion and Now York, and grumbled at everything tho man showed her. It was not that she was really dissatisfied; dissatis-fied; this was her method: She explulued Hint she could get most things cheaper nnd better elsewhere. else-where. Not tliut she really thought sho could; merely stio held It good for the shopkeeper to Ray this. She told him that his stock lacked taste. Ho did not arguo with her. Ho did not contradict her. He put tho things hack Into their rcspoctlvo boxes, replaced tho boxes on their rcspoctlvo shelves, walked Into the llttlo parlor behind the shop and closed the door. "Isn't ho over coming backT" asked ask-ed the lady after1 two or three minutes min-utes had elapsed. Her tone did not Imply a question so much as an exclamation ex-clamation of mere Impatience. "I doubt It," I replied. "Why not?" she asked, much astonished. aston-ished. "I expect," I answered, "you have bored him. In all probability he Is at ;thls moment behind that door smok ing a pipe and reading tho paper." "What an extraordinary shopkeeper!" shop-keeper!" said ray friend, as she gathered gath-ered her parcels together and indignantly indig-nantly walked out. "It Is their way," I explained. "There are the goods. It you want them you may have them. If you do not want them, they would almost rather that you did not come and talk about them." |