Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1910 — FUSSY ABOUT THE CHANGE [ARTICLE]

FUSSY ABOUT THE CHANGE

Man, Unlike Woman, .Dees Not Like the Way It Usually la Given to Him. To be sure, the change we receive in these days of the high cost of most

things does not burden our minds or our pockets ofermuch, yet we should like to receive the little that is coming to us in a more orderly arrangement than Is customary in the smaller bust* ness transactions of dally life, says the New York Tribune. Usually our change Is shot back in a little metal box via a miniature overhead railroad, The clerk pulls the crumpled wad hastily apart to verify the amount, and stuffs It into our hand: That is* the system.

If the customer be a woman, well and good, for she stuffs the ball into her bag or pocketbook In very much the same way, and departs. At the end of the day’s shopping she sits her down with a scrap of paper and a pencil, makes calculations that would bewilder a mathematical astronomer, talking to herself the while, pulls the wads apart, counts the bills, then, her account made up, stuffs them back again In very much the same disorderly condition. But with man It Is different. He Is methodical, fussy even, about the money he carries around with him. He carries his bills neatly folded, usually once lengthwise and once across. He has a finicky way of arranging them face upward, with the demonlnant in the upper right hand corner, and he keeps the bills of the same denomination together. The eashler In the wire cage of the retail business is not so particular. She —It usually is a she—• can handle money upside down and face downward without discomfort o« t confusion. She apparently puts it 1 away as it happens to come out of the carrier; she certainly takes no cognisance of these male peculiarities in the way In which she makes change. So bewildered man halts fn the aisle, Intent on bringing order from chaos, blocks up the passage, and Is Jostled. Wo know that the bulk of the retail trade of the country Is carried on by women with women, who understand eaoh other even in this, but has mere men no rights In the matter? Since society, is so busy reforming everything It happens to Chink of, can it not start a movement for the orderly am rangement of our change?