WINDOW-GAZING AS A BUSINESS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1664, 24 November 1887, Page 4

WINDOW-GAZING AS A BUSINESS.

Professional window-gazing is a Philadelphia idea, according to the News of that city. It says: Two young men who were very hard up hit upon this plan. One of them went to the proprietor of a men’s furnishing house on Chestnut street and told him that for so much a week he would guarantee to attract more attention to his window than all the displays that could be laid out. The proprietor was struck with the idea and gave it a trial. As a consequence there was a crowd at his window nearly all the time. Tlio young man would walk up to the window with his friend and stand gazing there until a crowd of a dozen or A teen were standing with them. To keep the crowd moving he would walk away and that started the break in the crowd. The performance was repeated every ten or fifteen minutes. The young man went to other stores along the street, unfolded his plan and pointed out the success of it. In a short time he had the whole street from Ninth to Broad on his beat and ho had to take his friend into partnership, and he makes plenty of money. If other window-gazers do not get on to the idea and get into the business these two originators will shortly estnbligh branches of the “ Gazers ” in other cities.