Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1847-07-20

buy it,
"You paid too high for your strawberries to-
lay"
.Perhaps did; although am by no
certain.''
"You can judge for yourself. Mine cost but
eight cents, and you own they arc superior to
yours at ten cents"
still, yours may have been too cheap, instead
of mine too DEAR
TOO cheap. That is funny. never any
thing too cheap in my life. The great trouble
is, that every thing is too dear. What do you
mean by too cheap2"
1.-The person who sold them to you may not
have made profit enough upon them to pay for her
time and labo.. II this was the case she sold
them to you too cheap.
"Supposs she paid too high for them, is the
purchaser to pay for her error''
s.Whether she did SO it would be hard to tell;
and if she had made such mistake, think
it would be more just and humane to pay her
price that would give her fair profit. instead of
taking from her the means Of buying bread for
her children. At least this is my way of reason
ing
"And precious lot of money it must take to
support such system of reasoning. But how
much, pray do you have week to keep the fam
lily? curious to know"
"Thirty five dollars
Thirty five dollars. You JeSting?''
''Oh. no. That is exactly what receive, and
as have said find the sum ample"
'Whio receive fifty dollars week, said
Mrs. Mer, land am forever calling on my hus-
band to settle bill other for me. And
yet never pay the exorbitant prices asked by ev-
cry body for every thing. am strictly &c onom-
zeal in my family. While other people pay their
donestlcs dollar ami half ana two dollar a
week, give but dollar and quarter each to
my cook and cham bermad, and require the cham-
bernaid to help the washerwoman Mondays
Nothing is wasted in my kitchen, for take care,
in marketing, not to allow room for waste l
don't know how it is that you money on
thirty five dollars with your system, while hnd
fifty dollars inadequate with my system
The exact difference in the two systems will
be clearly understood by the reader, when he is
informed that although Mrs. Mier paid any
body much was at first asked for an article.
and was always talking about economy, and try
ing to practice it, by Withholding from others
what was justly their due, as in the case Of the
straw berry woman, yet she was very extrava-
CANT person, and spared money in gratifying
her own pride. Mrs. Gilman, her visitor, was,
on the contrary, really economical, because she
was mol rate in all her desires, ana usually
as well satisfied with article of dress or fur
niture that cost ten or twenty dollars, as Mrs.
Mier with one that cost forty or fifty dollars.
In little things, the former not SO particular
to infringe the rights of others, while in larger
matters she careful not to run into extrav-
agance n order to crafty har own or chlldren's
prize and vanity, while the latter pursued a
course directly opposite.
Mrs Gilman not much dissatisfied, on
reflection, about the price she had paid for her
strawberries, she had felt at first.
Il would rather pay these poor creatures two
cents quart too much than too littc,'' she said
to herself, -"Jear knows they earn their money
hard enough, and get but scanty portion after
all"
Although the tray OF the poor straw berrywo
man, when she passed from the presence of Mrs.
Mier, lighter by five boxes. her heart
heavier, and that made her steps more weary
than before. The next place at which she stop
ped, she found the same disposition to beat her
down in her price
"l'il give you nine cents and take four boxes"
said the lady.
'Indeed. madam, that is too little replied
the woman; ''ten cents is the lowest at which
sell them and make even a reasonable prof
it,
"Weil, say thirtv-scven and a-haif for four
boxes, and will take them. tits only two cents
and a-haf less than You ask for them
"Give me ftp, ma.-there comes the candy
man. exclaimed little fellow, pressing uo to
the side of the lady. "Quick, ma. Here can
dyman.'' calling after an old man with a tin CYL
inder under his arm, that looked some thing like
an ice cream freezer The LADY drew out her
purse, and searched among its contents for the
small coin her child wanted.
Il haven't anything less than levy she at
length said.
"Oh, well, be can change it. Candy man, you
can change Levy"
BY this time the "candy man stood smiling
beside the trawberry-woman. As he was count
ing out the fps worth of candy, the child spoke
up in an earnest voice and said
sect a levy's worth, mother, DO, won't you
Cousin LUIS coming to Tomorrow"
"Let him have levy's worth, candy lyman
He's such a rogue l can't resist him. respond
ed the mother The candy was counted out and
the levy paid, when the man retired in his usual
good humor.
'sShall take these strawberries for thirty-sev-
en- and a-haf Cents said the lady, the smile IA