Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1912 — EASY TO FILL THAT ORDER [ARTICLE]

EASY TO FILL THAT ORDER

Floorwalker Hardly Had to Think to Make Satisfactory Answer to"" the Inquiry. "Silk stockings mußt be very cheap in America. Nowhere in the world do women’s slim and supple ankles gleam in lustrous silk as. they do here." The speaker was , Robert Loraine, the English actor, lid continued: “A married man told me the other day that, going into one of your department stores, he said to a floorwalker: 1 “Tm looking for something pretty in silk stockings.’ “The floorwalker smiled, and with a gesture embraced the long rows of counters with their charming sales* women. “ ‘That remark,’ he said, ‘describes, I believe, practically every 4ne of our young ladies.’”