Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1941 — Page 36

FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1841 — THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES PAGE 35 ABBIE AN' SLATS —By Raeburn Van Buren | OUR BOARDING HOUSE With Major Hoople OUT OUR WAY By Williams

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YESTERDAY: Beatrice files an applica- zVYHH~- | / . ~ SHALL WE GIVE AT tion for a job, finds she is angered by | = Es (=~) ’ THEM AN | ” the attitude of the personnel director. | “ ’ AIRING ? Her courage in talking up te the director lands the place. At lunchtime she calls Mr. Weeming, tells him she is going to | South America—witheut Clarence. surprised, secretly pleased. And Bee Davis, newest member of Huntington's staff, comes from the phone booth.

CHAPTER TEN B= ¢ tt eee = BUDGET FASHIONS, in | FT : Ee 3 , i m—— basement, consisted of a huge / 1 ; Tok Lo U | /" amount of floor space bounded by, siathis > —= H i = Tm im FU (0) |! > built-in cases filled with dresses of H -_ CLIT TIT every size and color imaginable. | HH — 1 — 3 (* GHT? AND NOW 4 AND E SURE TO TELL

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whether vou'd spent $5 or $50—do vou see what IT mean? You eould wear this dress to work, to a dinner party : “I want it for a special date that—well in the end, we shall have ton's you got an honest opinion, not gaid the girl, uncertainly “It's a return rather than a sale.” just a sales talk.” nice. but it's sort of —sort of —" Beatrice's hand on the dresses She returned to the sales floor |

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sive vou £0 much wear: vou couid Bradley,” she said quietly. “I'll try a slip for Toby. On an impulse, change the collar—vou might wear to do better.” Beatrice asked him, “Do vou think a plain White linen one for the Yesterday, when she'd been ex- customers prefer not having the

office, and 2 Hue hecrerchiel with plaining to a customer that verti- opinions of the salesperson offered a blue belt for some other occasion cal stripes were better than hori-| them? Some of them are uncer6 4 # {zontal stripes in size 20, the buyer tain, they really ask—" SHE KNEW THAT this was the had been going over some slips at | Mr. Bradley looked uncomfortalbe. ; : - 2 : l// wrong technique. But somehow, in the counter nearby. But Beatrice “A store must give its customers 8 ‘. = 3s 2 4.4 Aa NNN 3 Lr We 1 —— ® a2 this week she had worked here, hadn't connected that with the re-| what they want, not what's good a oN al es ; : WN \\ RY | _COPR. 1941 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF, * Beatrice found herself rebellious. \sentiul look the Huger had given for them. Everybody's taste is dif- : = ¢ — This child simply needed someone her this morning as she hung up a ferent. We can't go in for educat- ; < TL ——k >) to explain things to her. For the new lot of horizontal-stripe num- ing our customers up to our own Pare a EW HOW y To of peer TE AEN NEER SHORTLY AFTER BOOM'S

<ame amount of money, she'd get so | Pers. 'individual standards.” 4 ~ BELT.) PRECIPITATE DEPARTURE, |. much better results! . So Miss Dane had been listening, “Why can't we?” asked Beatrice OR LE ET ME ar aL 1g N HERE. y et Whar) HO re A TREMOR AGIATES THE |%.. °° It doesn’t cost money to exercise Just now, too! No wonder Miss hotly. “Oh, maybe I don't know PLANE T STOLE ! 7 “Quick! ENDS OF PILE OF RUINS...FOLLOWED| Xe pood taste she thought. “Why Getz and Toby and Annie Ryan enough about it. But it seems to THAT'S IT! G, Ns THE EARTH IMMEDIATELY BY A AN should this girl walk out of Hun- called her “Drizzle Puss!” me that if that same girl walked % ‘ € tineton’s with a dress that's a poor| “She's taking it as a criticism of | into the college shop upstairs, they advertisement for us and a disaster her buying judgment,” Beatrice wouldn't let her buy a $20 dress for her?” (thought, as she walked back to her that would announce to anyone who But the thin girl trying on the customer. “And so it is.” saw it that Huntington's college black dress was Stubborn. “I want| The customer finally walked out shop smells bad!” something—well—more stylish.” she | Without buying anything. Beatrice, “Miss Dane has been buyer in this <aid. “One of those prints, maybe. let her go. ‘department for 10 years.” II want it to look dressy.” | She stood there in the fitting] She wanted to retort, “Maybe it's Beatrice sighed and went obe- room, touching the rejected dark) 1g years too long.” She bit the diently ‘0 the marked-down rack dress that was smart, practical, and | words back. The store earned a for a eounle of prints quiet for all its tiny price tag, and great deal of money, it was certainly | Mr. Bradley, the section manager, thought, "Doesn't the store want a successful store, and efficient. cross #1 the floor swiftly toward her. the best efforts of its sales peopie?| “1 never tried to understand it| — : “Oh. "Miss Davis.” Is this the way they treat every- pefore. But naw that I'm here, Im! __ ar re i “Yes, sir?” body who tries to be really help- going to stick it out. I'll learn”

Miss Davis, T—er—well, as a mat- ful?” a | Tt came to her that it the were! i 1 i Ag ter of fact, Miss Davis, our buyer the girl she pretended to be, she'd G T H SE verter , ° tht i ” thinks vou should be warned about TRUE, THE dress hadn't sold. have no choice. She'd be glad of | - SELF. SHARPENING E z BAKE ey the Original All Purpose Flour spending too much time in conver- | But if the store, as a matter of the job and meek. “Tl take it,"”| a i Just clip the trade-mark lettering “E-Z-BAKE” from front of sation with each customer.” He policy, went in for educating its cus-| she thought fiercely. “T'll stay right \ any 5-1b, or larger bag of E-Z-BAKE Flour, enclose 23¢ and stirred uneasily from one foot to the tomers—for being of actual service here and find out if I'm worth any- p mail for your pair of these fine shears. This flour is Indiana's other. “We understand, of course, to them—in the end, the sales would thing or not.” FORGE-HARDENED 12 leading seller . . . preferred for making tender rolls and bread, that a sale can't be hurried. But|be better than ever. “They'd he de- | (To Be Continued) STEEL BLADES WITH $ 20 VALUE FOR ONLY= \ flaky pastry, lighter cakes. Made in our own air-conditioned

she feels that vou er—perhaps un- pendable, regular repeat sales. Cus- = MAGNETIZED TIPS =and one E-Z.BAKE Trade Mark mills. Get a bag right away at your grocer's. consciously er—are attempting to tomers would be grateful and come (All events names Ang hous) =~ hie A

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