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Updated: May 7, 2025
Perhaps not, if you will only remember this woman's white-lipped determination to wrest a livelihood from the world, for her children and herself. They had been in Chicago a week, and she was buying at Bauder & Peck's. Now, Bauder & Peck, importers, are known the world over.
Her mind leaped back to the plush photograph album, then to young Bauder and his cool contempt. And there stole over her that warm, comfortable glow born of reassurance and triumph. Four hundred dollars. Not much in these days of big business. We said, you will remember, that it was a pitiful enough little trick she turned to make it, though an honest one.
There were probably two hundred or more of the little figures. "Oh, those!" said young Bauder vaguely. "You don't want that stuff. Now, about that Limoges china. As I said, I can make you a special price on it if you carry it as an open-stock pattern. You'll find " "How much for that lot?" repeated Mrs. Brandeis. "Those are left-over samples, Mrs. Brandeis. Last year's stuff. They're all dirty.
Young Bauder was being broken into the Chicago end of the business, and he was not taking gracefully to the process. At the end of a long aisle, on an obscure shelf in a dim corner, Molly Brandeis' sharp eyes espied a motley collection of dusty, grimy china figures of the kind one sees on the mantel in the parlor of the small-town Catholic home.
I'd forgotten they were there." "How much for the lot?" said Mrs. Brandeis, pleasantly, for the third time. "I really don't know. Three hundred, I should say. But " "I'll give you two hundred," ventured Mrs. Brandeis, her heart in her mouth and her mouth very firm. "Oh, come now, Mrs. Brandeis! Bauder & Peck don't do business that way, you know. We'd really rather not sell them at all.
It is doubtful if there is one of you who has not been supplied, indirectly, with some imported bit of china or glassware, with French opera glasses or cunning toys and dolls, from the great New York and Chicago showrooms of that company. Young Bauder himself was waiting on Mrs. Brandeis, and he was frowning because he hated to sell women.
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