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Show CONDUCTOR KNEW THE 8IGN3. Experience Had Taught Him Why the Crowd Was Out. "I wonder what It Is to-day, corsets or kimonos," mused the conductor. "How do you know it is either?" asked a passenger. "Because there are so many stout people coming .down town shopping," was the reply. "It may not be either corsets or kimonos that are bringing thgm, bat It Is something for fat folk to wear. You can't fool me ou that. I've been conductor on this line too long not to know the slgnu. The stout wompn are out in shoals to-day, which means that there has been a bargain sale in extra large garments advertised. adver-tised. The thin people always tako things more calmly when their turn comes. Possibly they thlrjk they can get fitted any time. Bivt the heavyweights heavy-weights never miss an opportunity, and the conductor who has larned to put two and two together can tell by the heft of the passengers how the day's advertisements run." The Inquisitive paB6cnger said: 'That's queer." and opened the morning morn-ing paper. He turned to tho advertisement adver-tisement of tho store that stands on the corner, where so many stout people peo-ple had left the C2r. A line In heavy type at the top of the page took his eye: SPECIAL SALE OF DRESSING-SACQUES. DRESSING-SACQUES. EXTRA LARGE SIZES. The conductor grinned. "What did l tell you?" he said. |