Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1877 — Cheap Things. [ARTICLE]

Cheap Things.

What a fascination dwells to that one little word, cheap , and how It lures on the nppst wary ; and frugal housewife into buying! 11 Such bargains!” says your enthusiastic friend who has just, been purchasing, and straightway you are touched with her enthusiasm. Haven’t we seen it dozensof tlmee, and tried it too? You Want “to make one dollar do the work of two; you read eagerly the flaming advertisements of goods almost given away, sad you start hopefully on your pilgrimage to distant parts of the city, land bring back, what? In niae cases out TOtOßtfiothiitg hat experience. ' Still, the word does not lose its charm, even after many disappointments. We like to see the woman who could pass a shop window unconcernedly where ""Selling Off Below Cost!” appears in staring capitals, or who coaid hasten past a shop door without investigation when stacks of dress goods are labeled with the tempting announcement, “ Reduced to Half Price!” If such a woman exists we confess that she is thus far nnkuown to us, and we Sye a lively cpriosity to gaze upon the omaly.' Hen laugh at this "feminine weakness,” as they grandly call it, but the Kith is that they are quite as much given buying bargains as tbeir mothers or sisters or wives. Quite as much, did I sav ? Why, they are ten times worse! , Take a man into an auction-store, and he will commit extravagances enough to appal any woman of ordinary prudence, for he will buy things not ouly useless, but positively in the way; and yet be sublimely unconscious all the time that he has done the very thing he ridicules so Ofterf.' Now this whole subject of cheapness hinges upon two time-honored sayings, as true as they are ancient, thus: Nothing is cheap that you do not want, and a poor -article is,always dear. These two rules -*4ll sufllotf Cor our guidance in this matter of cheapness, ana if it be said that tS# are iweil known already, why, so much the better:; All that is necessary is to apply them to action, good mends, never buying.what you do not want, and making-op your minds that no shop-keep-er can afford to sell first-class goods at fourth-rate prices; Be as economical as your circumstances demand; bay as few things as possible, if your purse is slen der; but let those few things be worth having. ReUpf far better, a fine merino than a cheap, poor silk.— Christian Intelligencer. —The 1 * Boozey Bashouks ’ ’ is the latest and worst.