Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1887 — Running an Account. [ARTICLE]

Running an Account.

It is a convenient thing to have a standing account at a store, where you can go at any time, order what you please, and have it charged, without the worry of having to consider whether you have enough money in your purse to pay for it or not; but it is also true that these items, small though they may be, mount up with appalling rapidity into a sum that always surpasses expectation. Besides this, the very best calculators, and those who generally use a w’ise economy, buy things in this way which they could easily do without did they take the time for reflection which cash payments would often compel. It is so easy, when an article that seems at the time desirable is seen, to order it sent and charged for, the temptation overcomes the buyer before the strength which comes from looking at the matter on all sides enable her to resist the impulse to buy. Often purchases are made in this way and regretted, while something that was far more necessary must in consequence be gone without. Merchants understand that a great deal more is likely to be bought where there is, a running account than when cash is paid down, which explains their readiness to trust those whom they have reason to believe will pay what they honestly owe. The excess will, in nine cases out of ten, more than compensate for the loss of interest on the outstanding sums, though there is no question but that they sometimes lose large amounts by the failure of individuals through misfortune, sickness, death, or deliberate rascality to discharge their debts. —Emily S. Bouton, in Toledo Blade. Faded ink on old documents, papers, parchments, etc., may be so restored as to render the writing perfectly legible. The process consists in moistening the paper with water, and then passing over the lines a brush which has been wet in a solution of sulphide of ammonia. The writing will immediately appear quite dark in color, and this color, in the case of parchment, will be preserved. On paper, however, the color gradually fades again. Thboat troubles yield promptly to Red Star Cough Cure, as vouched for by U. S. Architect Clark. Its ingredients are purely vegetable and free from opiates. 25 cents.