Show they dont sell bell stoves detroit avee ee four our er or five weeks ago a woman with an undecided look on her faco face entered a detroit hardware store threaded her way for sixty feet among coal stoves of every pattern and timidly inquired do aou you keep stoves hero here hesni yes Ye sni U coal stoves desm she said she abe had been thinking of getting a coal stove for the winter and the clerk took her in hand lie ile showed snowed lier how the doors worked and low the dampers were arranged and the flues situated and ho lie talked of the double drafts great savings savins increased cheerfulness reduction in in price rice and all that and she said she shed d think it over and drop in again again in about three days the woman reappeared und inquired of the tile very same clerk if they sold coal stoves he ile replied that they did sell one now and then and ho lie cleared his voice vo ice and began the usual thirty lecture on oil the michigan the detroit and the peninsular base burners tho the beautiful nickle plate the place for the teakettle tea kettle the ornamental legs the anti clicker shaker all points were touched upon and praised and explained pla ined and tile woman said she slie take inq along under un her arm just then but she would call again that same week heard the same lecture from the game same clerk and started fur for the bank to draw the tile money to pay ay for a baso base burror that was the last last seen of her for a week then she walked softly in and innocently inquired I suppose YOU keep coal oil stoves no maam not any kind not a one we used to but went out of tho the busi business nem a year 11 ago age there were twenty coal stoves on the floor but if she saw staw them she let on she heaved a sigh of d disappointment appointment glanced around her Is and went slowly out with the remark well I dont know that I want to buy one but I thought it do any harm barm to look at some of the latest makes |