New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-12-14

tenderly loved heart that really II raises ones idea
of human nature to think Of it, and tits as good rs
gift itself to watch it 1t is betrayed in the shop
Besides people nowadays do not 60 a-shopping
with the purse of Fortunatus. IL would be dread
full to make any great mistake in the spending OF
limited amount of cash. Men careful enough
or careless at least with method in Wall Street
All these are different investments which the hoh
day purchasers are making. They are expected 10
pay cent per cent. not in trade dollars, nor greer"
backs nor eagles. but in grateful words ana 'enoor
looks and pleasant memories We must put some
thing divine into our transactions, when VIC "i'
hungry for such divine dividends
Sbonnng is seductive and doubtless may occa-
sionaly have in il something akin TO lunacy. IN
ouestionablv. prudent people occasionally buy. In
the ardor of bnying what they do not want The
most cautious make lamcntablc mistakes; 1t is the
story of the veneratcd Franklin ana MS WHISTLE
over again-it is like women bidding against Them
elves at an auction as have seen them do even at
n book auction which only wise women would
be likely to attend. l knew little girl
who Put all her savings for months INTO
a sugar fiddle so bepainted that she cOnld
not cat il. and without any bow. so that
she could not have played on her sweet Cremona
even If it had possessed strings, which ii did not
This reminds me of the droll auctioneer in Boston.
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$1,000. for nine shillngs. and then refused to de-
liver the bow to the buyer, under the plea that IN
this establishment. young man. we always sell the
bow separately.' All trades havO their tricks hut
none of them arc so sharp as those which we play
upon ourselves. We are always purchasing what
we have no use for or are compelled tohnd use Tor,
after we have purchased it. Poor Richard. who
would be sainted. if shopping had saints. has be-
oueathed to us a variety of economical proverbs
which we read, admire. and then entirely dis
regard Well. let Us not be too prudent We Will
pinch by-and-by when Christmas has come, jocund
and generous. and has gone in an odor of jolity.
Is buyIng expensive? Perhaps so. but not buying
NAV prove more expensive STILL 1t may cost us-but
never mind moralizlng, Everybody with 4 heart
knows what it may cost us.
No treatise on shops and shopping however cur
sorry. would be complete without alluson to shop
windows, which are already replete with splendor
and costliness 1t is kind of the keepers to put
their prettest and rarest where the passcr by
who would never dream of buying such magniii-
cent things, can look his fill, without money and
without price. No doubt they fad their account
1.-THE ledger will look byand-by as brilliant as the
window. only in different way. If we could but
follow the stock as il scattered. as II is carried TO
happy homes and thrust into stockings, and put
under pillows upon which rosy heads are resting.
passed from one kind hand to another.
made the visible sign of an inward love.
treasured that years after eyes may grow moist at
looking upon it-how all the great and mutifarious
assortment would become gloried, how shops be-
come temples of happiness and shoppers their mis-
sioparies CT