Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1916 — BE BELIEVED IN RECIPROCITY [ARTICLE]

BE BELIEVED IN RECIPROCITY

Typical Street Gamin Makes Novel Proposition to Optician—Would Dazzls Their Eyes. He was a typical street gamin with a blacking kit slung over hia shoulder, and as he walked boldly into the store of a Pennsylvania street optician his ctfrly head scarcely reached the top of the counter. “Say,” he queried of the elderly gentleman who came forward, “are youse de guy wot runs dis joint?” “I am the proprietor,’’ was the reply. "What can I do for you, my boy?” “I’ve got one uv dem reserprosity propositions t’ shy at youse,” said the urchin. “Gimme one uy yore chairs, an’ I’ll open up a shoe-shinery in front uv your winder. See?” “Not exactly," replied the optician. ’T fail to see what benefit I would derive from such an arrangement." “Well, It’s like dis, mister,” answered the youthful financier, "yer see, I puts such a dazzlin’ shine on me customers* kicks dat it hurts dere eyes an’ dey’ll hafter come in an’ buy specks uv youse. Savey?”—lndianapolis Star.