Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1895 — The Flour Dealer's Scales. [ARTICLE]

The Flour Dealer's Scales.

“You would be astonished,” remarked a Philadelphia flour and feed dealer, “at the number of people who come here to get weighed in the course of a week, and at the comments they make if the number of pounds is not up to their expectation. One of my customers, a very thin woman, came here yesterday and asked me to weigh her. Four months before she had tipped the scales at 118, and she remarked that she would beat her record this time. I thought so myself, for she insisted on holding a satchel and an umbrella, but to my surprise the balance struck at 104. After roundly berating me, the scales and the flour and feed trade in general, she flounced out and I lost a good customer. Sometimes, however, the balance is to the good, as in the esse of a stout woman, who found she had lost three pounds, and was so tickled that she immediately ordered a barrel of flour and said she would call to be weighed again in a week. The scales are all right, but I'll have to fix them for her benefit, in order to compensate for the loss of the tthin woman’s trade.”