正文 第26章 附講壇生涯50年(10)(2 / 3)

airs and bawl because people went to Wanamaker's to trade.He did not have a hat or a bonnet in that show-window but what some lady liked before it was made up.The tide of custom began immediately to turn in,and that has been the foundation of the greatest store in New York in that line,and still exists as one of three stores.Its fortune was made by John Jacob Astor after they had failed in business,not by giving them any more money,but by finding out what the ladies liked for bonnets before they wasted any material in making them up.I tell you if a man could foresee the millinery business he could foresee anything under heaven!