Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-01
WHAT is TRUE ECONOMY.

management, or that enlightened judge
ment by which a person obtains the
most benefit from a certain outlay of
money. If I buy a pair of boots for S.,
and they last but third as long as a
pair for which pay $40. the SIS pair
are the dearest, and the pair which cost
the most are the most economical.
The same simple rule holds good regard
ing dry goods, clothing, or almost any
article of universal wear or consumption.
A spirit of false economy has been en-
gendered during the period of "hard
times" For instance, people have
been led to purchase inferior food, fuel,
hats, boots, and other articles of cloth
ing, because they could get them for
less money than better articles would
cost; and thus they sacrificed real econ
omy to present convenience. 1t is
short-sighted policy, however, which
manages only for present necessities. A
really economical prudent buyer of
anything will look to the amount of
service it is likely to afford him for the
price he pays, and he recognizes the
truth of the old maxim, penny wise,
pound foolish" Unhappily it is true
that many are SO poor that when they
purchase the very poorest qualities of
clothing or other goods, because offered
at the lowest prices yet in reality they
pay more for what they get than the
middle and richest classes pay for
what they get, if the latter buys half-a-
dozen fiimsy umbrellas a year, that
spit in the first gale, and buys them be-
cause he gets them at $3.50 each, pays
SO for what is next to worthless; yet
possibly he thinks himself more econom-
ical than one who pays 81 for one good
umbrella which would outlast them all.
So in the purchase of cloths and cloth
ing, there is much extravaganza in i'm
aginary cheapness. Of late years there
have been and are now in vogue infe-
riOr "woolen' fabrics, largely mixed
with cotton, shoddy, etc., to meet the
demand for "cheapest" goods, and SO
dexterously as to defy detection even by
experts. These spurious limitations are
only proved so by chemical test or by
their unsatisfactory service after being
worn short time. Such fabrics re-
mind us of the imitation butter called
"oleomargarine," and of many other de-
vices ingeniously vamped up to meet
theory of hard times. They recall the
moral of Franklin's story of "Look at
t'other side, Jim !" True economy will
teach that what costs the most at first
is generally cheapest in the end.
Thoughtful people know this, and, by
making judicious purchases, save them
selves from repeated OUTLAWS for inferior
goods, while thoughtless people incur
such vexatious expenses because fasci-
mated by the low prices at which such
goods are offered. The day of miracles
has not yet arrived, and tradesman are
pretty much alike, in one respect, all
the world over, viz: they never give
something for nothing, and. as general
rule, make poor goods the penalty Of
poor prices. Wherever there are swarms
, of necessitous people there the trade in
f inferior goods at cheapest rates will
e flourish, because the dealer in sucl
goods makes rich profit from the large
: amounts he sells to the INDECENT or I'm
s wary. But the buyers of such article
y have their pockets more largely depleted
in the long run, than those more fortu
! nate citizens who are judges of the quail
ity of what they buy, and who, buying
X only superior goods at fair price, fine
IS them of lasting and satisfactory char
It acter. While l recognize the facilit
+ E and enterprise with which dealers il
! the lowest-priced low-grade goods in an
! trade meet the demande of their especia
e customers. l cannot but accord hig
h credit to that other class of tradesme
y whose prosperity and good name hay
. been won and maintained by the sale {
e. sterling goods which uniformly prov
rs all they are represented to be, and ar
e. sold at only a fair advance upon tn
y actual cost.-"Franklen" IN CONNER
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