"GITTIN' FUNNY!"

Evening Star, Issue 19002, 25 July 1925, Page 13

"GITTIN' FUNNY!"

AND A NEW “SLANT.”

AMERICAN BUSINESS LETTER

In America the getting o! a near “ slant ” in business appears to have become a major occupation.

Not in the lexicon of Ibo American ‘‘ business getter ” are such phr'ses a:-' “Trusting to receive the favor of your esteemed order.'’ In Amurika, why, they do tilings difl’rent Veh! A Christchurch lady lias just returned from a business trip to the United States (states the ‘Sun ’). Two days after her return came a request for an order ior crepe drosses from a New York softgoods concern. And this was the manner of it:— “ Dear Aiks (The letter ran).—

“ Well, it ’s {get tin’ kind of late—and oven 1 am gelling tired stalling around, One swallow ain t gonner make no summer —neither are those sheer crepe dresses gonner keep me out of mischief.

“ \ couple of customers ire asking us to £ (.jit funny.’ But that ain't the only reason. We’re half-baked psychologists swallow th;if. one)-- -and wo figured out that if wo spent Big next five weeks talking about everything in the world bet Gran or and his dresses — you’ll say 1 'Ain’t they nice people, never lying their heads off <ml telling us bow wonderful they are.’ _ And you'll appreciate it. and coma in, and look round, and buy a bill of dresses — which is just what we’ve heo.i figuring. “So, for goodness’ sake, don’t go out of your way this fall to prove that wo figured wrong—because it wo find it so we’re going to flood the mail with the ‘ Great T am ’ land of letters that will wear out your arm throwing them away before you get a fiance to read them.

“Yours briefly, Louis Grauer and Co.. Tup.. Seymour Grauer.’’ The Christchurch lady is going to risk contracting something ekiu to tennis elbow