Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — They Were Shopworn. [ARTICLE]

They Were Shopworn.

“Yes, madam, ” exclaimed tho man ager of apartment store enthusiastically as he saw a big order In sight, “we keep anything and everything. We can give you anything you want from a pin to a threshing machine, a fishhook to a sealskin sacque, a dried apple to a diamond ring. Absolutely anything. ” “I’m so glad,” she remarked smilingly. “There In one thing I want so much.” “Why, what Is it? Glad to be of service to you ” “J wapt a do en ready made buttonholes. Ido hate to work buttonholes. ” “Um—yes—well, we have some, bill they wouldn’t suit you. They’s badly shopworn. One of the clerks carelessly left them too near the button box, and they wore Shemselves out Awfully sorry.”