VANITY'S TRAP.
" T hear you want a good window dresser ?" "Yee, err," replied the draper. "Can you make a window attractive?" " Attractive ! I should say I could. I can drees it so a woman can't go by without looking in." "Very well, sir, you may try." In half an hour the pavement in front of the shop was crowded with women, all waiting to get a chance to peep in. The draper could not understand it, since nothing else but a solid piece of black velvet was hanging in the window. " I didn't know a simple piece of plain velvet was so attractive." '"Taint that," said the new man. " They aro not looking at the velvet " "What, then?" " Why, don't yon see a mirror at the side ?"
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Evening Star, Issue 14117, 21 July 1909, Page 6
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127VANITY'S TRAP. Evening Star, Issue 14117, 21 July 1909, Page 6
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