Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1909 — No Plus, Etc. [ARTICLE]

No Plus, Etc.

The absent-minded customer had bought something on one of the upper floors of the big department store and had started for the elevator. Happening to notice that the movable stairway was running, however, he decided to use it instead. It carried him down to the next floor where another movable stairway was in operation, and he kept on going. At last he came to a floor where there appeared to be no stairway of any kind. An elevator stood not far away, with the door invitingly open, and he stepped inside. “Going down?’’ he asked. “I hope not, just yet awhile,” said the elevator boy. “This is the basement.”—Chicago Tribune.