The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11

The Woman That Always Gets a
:. Good Bargain.
She rides to town on the ragged edge
Of an old quilt, and holds her basket Of
eggs elapsed to her bosom, and with her
pipe in her mouth, and her snoff.box in
her pocket, she attacks the merchant.
First, she walks all over town, and car.
RES her basket, to find the highest mar.
ket. After she has found it, she goes
back to the first store and tells the mer-
chont how much she can sell for, and
wants him to give her a, little more, be-
cause she always trades there. Some
times he does raise the price S quarter
Of cent. and sends her on her way re.
joicing. Oftener he is very contented
man. Has about all the eggs he can sell;
prices are variable; and ''then comes the
tug.of war; She hates to leave without
selling the eggs. So she asks him the
price of carpet chain, and how he sells
his muslin by the bolt, and wonders how
much he would take to chain forty yards:
and suddenly asks if he can't give her
sixteen and two-thirds. He says,
''what!' For he don't know whether It's
muslin or carpet chain, she is talking
about. 81 mean for the eggs," says she.
II always sell the biggest, and eat the
little ones at home, and I think they
are worth sixteen and two
third cents. The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. his
bump of caution, and says he will give
her that, but she must not tell any one,
as he can't afford to pay that price for
eggs. (Of course she never tells.) Then
she proceeds to 'tra6e it out" First
and always she wants a pound Of soda :;
then a row of pins and two needles; that
is, how much would he <'charge'' for two
needles. He don't know; never sold less
all that, but ten cents will buy yard Of
calico, or two spools Of thread, and be-
sides. she never buvs but two needles at a
time. If the girls have many, they lose
many; so she buys only two. He gives
her two needles. Then she buys two or
three remnants to make dress--rem.
nants always come cheaper.
Next she buys pair Of garters. There
is plenty Of good rubber in the box, but
she hunts till she finds some that has
been kept over and has lost it's stretch !;
this she gets for five cents. She wants to
know if they have any odd cups and sau-
GERS! The merchant says he don't
know; would have to count the whole lot
to find out. She says she wishes he would,
as she wants two or three. He guesses it
! is his dinner time, and Gals James Hen.
ry to wait on her. James Henry bows
| nd ocl>c hot ,no L.
says she don't know; maybe she has
AIDED the eggs all out. He counts it up
I'd says there are fifty.six cents coming
to her. "Well," (she studies awhile, J
''you don't pay money for eggs,
do you?'' James Henry says
"No.' ''Then suppose I'll have to trade
it out, but things are so high l don t
know what to get. Have you tobacco?''
:'Yes'm,'' says he, ''come this way
Soc goes over, shifts the fragrant weed,
and says: eve are poor and have to
work hard, and have to do without a
great many things, and I'll take half a
plug Then she prices the ginghams
and ducklngs and beavers; she feels Of
the silverware, and tastes the sugar and
says, "We are poor and we work hard
and try to get along, and we must have
something to keep US up, so I guess III
take a little more of that tobacco Their
she prices a looking glass, tries her face
in it, and says it 1.-THE glass; is little
crooked. She calls for ribbon, and CAM
see why a yard of ribbon should cost az
much as yard Of calico, when it is I
good deal narrower. Next she views tn
dishes. She wants some dishes, sh'
does, but she don't know whether to taxi
two small ones or one large one, SO sh'
don't take any. She wants a pasteboar(
box large enough to make pasteboard TO
: a sun.bonnet. That is given her, AM
she wants two yards Of wall paper t
, cover her handbook. Then she takes he
pipe out of her mouth, and holds it il
2 her right hand, and looks straight a
James Henry and says, eve are yer.
] poor, and we work very hard, and W
can't buy everything we see, so if it's al
E the same to you, I'll take the rest of tn
2 eggs out in tobacco
1 Sabbath.Day Suggestions.
What battles has prayer not fought
what VjcfOrinc hoe II not won what hnr