New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-13
SHAVING FOR A PENNY.


II don't understand your currency" said Louisiana
tepd 10 us day or two since doat think is half
good ss our way of counting by dimes. Every negro
understands that "Three dimes and half piece for the
lhCl ems, sir.
"yery well Pomp, viii take four, and here is two
dolsr bill Can you make change How much do they
come 20 ~
"oh YES. Sir that mighty easy One chicken three dime
and ha-two chicken seven dime-four chicken fourteen
imen
avery well then, how mu n change do / want Oat OF
ne two dollar bill Can you tell that ~
.Oh YES Sir any child tell that No trouble tell that,
Sr-he tell himself aim 's Twenty dime in two dollar bill
-iourieen dime out Of him. Don't you see how easy
Anybody who can tell fourteen and six make twenty
hi how much change Heap easier, MsssS than them
id bits and picayunes Never could get dem hLtcens
and Quarter cents right 10 my hfeawAys cheating
body fore these dime coms in fashion Mighty good
hshion Massa-nigeer all understand hoE to count him.
aYes 1t is good fashion So good you that it in
high favor with people who need the most simple currency
"a the world, for their comprehension such IS dollars
Dimes aud cents afford them. The example have given
YOU occurred only the day before left home with seEro
Of As little capacity for reckosng figures any one upon
nsplspt.fio How would have been here, with your
much boosted convenient currency counting the chickens
Athe ssu G price ut % % each, which oeleve Is
somewhere near it How would that Ignorant man ever
have been able add the price Of four together and
a dollar bill Anu suppose uohc ivE
be could not satisfy himself that had done right because
mixing the currency Of shings with the currency of dol
b coniuses the mind-it does mne sm bothered every
day. Why don't you charge. Do it in NewYork and
al the country will follow Besides your system is dis
honest one Ii learns clerks cheat Here is example
went store with lady the other day who bought
thirteen yards of cloth At thirteen cents yard and four
yr1s At ten cents yard Not word WAS said abou
pence She gave him three dollar BILL and he began to
FAM 4, pclh hon 1aki IA 1
10 the process Thirteen ysrdsl5 shngs and 10 pence
la and penny. Ten yards At ten ps.oo-3 nd pence
IA and l. and , and 4-l7 shiings and pence
Here was a direo. bsrefaced cheat of nine cents,
BY dis abominable method OF counting IN your
shilling currency. Away went shave for penny toget
be change Directly back he comes smiling rs cour
With words oily politician Just before eleoton-ohsnge
very scrce uam-nothng bat small staf-7 and pence
-'penoe shirgs-l9 30 2l p % 2i-tha. axes the
three dollars Aud he proceeded 10 lay down in her
hand drsi two cent pieces and cent then dime ana
two oents-then stwelve and half cent piece-hen one
after the other four ss Of four cent psOes calling eSohs
shilling or course she said thing, for she did not COM
prshend the shave, and would not for was amused st
this specimen OF the custom of the country The result
was however, that when got home and told her to
count the cost she resoiy said 10 times Is is l69 and
hines 10 is i0ss o. and she found that she had only 79
cents instead Of 81, which she entitled to- and when
ted her the process by which arrived A. she declared
hat she would buy another cents worth at that store
2 the world and she had intended to purchase about
hundred dollars worth there bsfOre she returned South
Nov know the above TO be true statement; andwe
PIT the question to the merchant; "HOw much did you
make by that shave for penny" You gained eleven
and half cents by your ready mode Of changing cents
INTO pennies side 10 Increase the price Of your good
d on the other to make cents count pennies to lessen
ae amount of change and you lost valuable customer
Aso still you taught your clerk the art of Cheating
sseh he will practice not for your profit but his own
Ion have taught him to chsa. others and he viii pay you
os his tuition by cheating you
And this Is one Of the why We advocate the
~fm IN the currency IL has oOuup,ing influence upon
Avho are engaged in the penny shaving business.
herohsnts We appeal to you Who willssd of in the
'sn Of selling goods and making change in Federal cur
"ay BY fOrbidding - use Of shlngs in their stores