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The Gay Saleslady By W. E. Hill Copyright, 1936, by Chicago Tribune, N. Y. News Syndicate, Inc. CUTE CADDIES OF CATALINA. This fair golfer. Miss Hermine Sierks, had an idea when she pressed these wild mountain goats into service as caddies for a round of golf on Catalina Island. The billies seem willing. ? Wide World Photo*. I .... ■ ■ ... UP IN ESKIMO LAND. Two little Eskimo girls hug ging their prize possessions—a stuffed doll and a woolly pup for each. The picture was taken in Greenland by Emmy Langberg, famed for her Arctic adventures. ©Associated Press Photo I-77 The substitute saleslady at the antique shop. Pro prietress has gone to lunch or something. And there would be a perfect rush of customers. Doesn’t know anything about the stock, gets prices and everything wrong. f. » Five and ten salesgirl giving a dirty look to customer who handles things and puts back / the two-for-five articles in the * > five-cents-each receptacles. B l hh Ell t" Iff, le kind hearted saleslady who; ilps out the lone male, shopping \ for the girl friend. Tells him the ■ seven-fifty evening bag is a better JiJ/i buy than the one for twelve-fifty. “She’ll never know the difference,’’ ■ *) she tells him. “We would, but she J1 won’t.’’ ^ - i 1 .J ' / Book department. “We’re just out of the Marie Antoin ette biography but you might like this mystery instead. ‘The Clue of the Bloodsoaked Grave.’ It’s selling very well.” Saleslady in the ready-to-wear who has her regular customers year in and out. Remembers the face but not always the name. “Why, Mrs. Rodebeck ... or is it Mrs. White?” she coos, “I was just thinking of you this morning and wishing you'd come in! We have some imported beach pajamas with a little bolero effect that I knew you’d be crazy about!” f ' w r ,y j Corner of the millinery depart- I ment—eight square feet of it, to be I accurate—known as the “Fifi I Shop.” Just a bit of Paris in the U. S. The salesladies always ad-1 dressing a customer as “Modom.” M Elsewhere on the floor a customer gets called “Dearie.” • Department store bird shop. Showing saleslady with thumbs and forefingers — bandaged, telling prospective customer how sweet dispositioned Tony, the South American parrot, is. “Never bites—and, oh, the cute things he says ^ when I’m alone with him!” Bargain basement. There’s a sale ffflJB on men’s shorts—in baby blue, blush peach and lettuce green— 7 and Miss Workey is helping a cus tomer measure his waist for the . size, allowing, of course, for shrink a8e Left: GREETING THE CHINESE NEW YEAR With the traditional firecrackers and lilies, these little girls are ready for the cele bration in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Janu ary 24 began the year 6668 in Chinese chro nology. ® Associated Press Photo. GUARDING THE FRONTIER. Mon golian troopers patrolling the bleak Man chukuo-Mongolian frontier, where there have been many clashes between Mongo lian tribesmen and Japanese soldiery. © Wide World Photos. YOUTHFUL AS EVER. Mrs. J. W. Dean—whom you’ll remember as Fanny Ward of the silent films— greets little old New York as she returns from Europe. ® Associated Press Photo.