Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1884 — Bound to Suit Her. [ARTICLE]

Bound to Suit Her.

“In one of our suburban cities—it doesn’t matter which,” said a salesman in a neighboring retail house, “the proprietor got up the idiotic notion that it would eliminate the workmen from the pay-roll if he made a rule that no man who failed to sell to one out of three customers who came in in succession should be detained in the establishment. This rule was in force for some time. One fellow, who didn’t intend that anybody should get ahead of him when he found himself on the eve of losing a third customer, was obliged to do a rascally thing to secure her. She came in with ten yards of calico, a remnant which she had just bought, and she wanted a yard and a half more. She said she had been all over town in a vain search to get it matched. The salesman looked over all his goods, and couldn’t find anything to suit her. He began to be alarmed, when a bright thought occurred to him. He put his hand to his head all of a sudden, as though he remembered something, and said, ‘Well, there, I believe Fve got a remnant of the very identical piece of goods all the time up stairs. I’ll run up and see.’ He took her piece of cloth under his arm, went up stairs, deliberately cut off a yard and a half from it, and brought back the two pieces to her. She was very much pleased at such an excellent match, and paid for the yard and a half of her own calico with a great deal of satisfaction. She came into the store next day and said somebody had cheated her; but the fellow explained so plausibly to her that she must have got short measure at the place where she first got her cloth that she started for that place in high dudgeon. As he hasn’t seen her

since, he concludes that she must have met with some satisfaction there. But it was a risky piece of business for him, just the same.— Boston Globe.