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of fish and meat when brought upon the table. This is a little 

 thing, costs but a trifle, and if the grocer will try the experiment 

 he will be surprised at the improved effect. In this store, also, 

 the show-windows were shut ofE from the rest of the store inside 

 by glass-doors, so that the goods placed in the windows might be 

 protected from the dust and dirt. Along one side and at the rear 

 of the store extend the counters, which are of mahogany, and the 

 shelves are faced with a narrow strip of the same wood, highly 

 polished, making them look as if they were all mahogany also. 

 The most prominent thing behind the main counter, against the 

 wall, are the tea-boxes, wliich outside are of wood, handsomely 

 decorated and labelled, but lifting the half lid reveals a tin box 

 the size of a chest of tea ; this is to retain the flavor of the tea 

 and prevent it absorbing that of the wood, and as the wooden 

 fronts of the boxes are arranged to slide out, the tin box can be 

 taken to another part of the store to be filled and then replaced 

 in position. I forgot to state that the tea-boxes are twenty-four 

 inches square and raised about eight inches from the floor, this 

 space being occupied^ by a row of drawers, which are used for 

 various articles. Above the tea boxes b6gin a row of shelves 

 eleven inches deep ; the first is also eleven inches high, and occu- 

 pied with small shelf goods ; then one nine inches high, where 

 various colored papers, cut to convenient sizes and printed with 

 the firm's name and address, are ready for use. Above this is a 

 space of twenty-four inches, which is utilized for cans of green 

 tea, cocoa, etc., and above this is a twenty-one inch space, which 

 is filled with canned and other small shelf goods in great variety. 

 Above these is the cornice, which projects over the shelves six 

 inches, being about eighteen inches wide, and on the top of the 

 cornice are placed cans of biscuits, and other light goods. The 

 above describes the arrangement behind the main counter, which 

 extends, perhaps, two-thirds the length of the store ; then comes 

 a break for a passage-way, and beyond extends a similar counter, 

 behind which, instead of shelves, are arranged a "chest of draw- 

 ers," if this expression may be allowed to describe a series of 

 drawers, rising one above the other, something like the arrange- 

 ment I have seen in many country drug-stores in the United 

 States. In these are kept the various articles which are sold in 



