The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-02-08
TIE KONEY TASTE.


Ii may seem somewhat fanciful to talk
about The money taste" but one cannot
help imagining something of the sort
which often gives exquisite zest to what |
otherwise would he common or repul |
sive. What was it that so pleased Cleo
paira when she dissolved her most COST
ly pearl and drank il from a goblet !
Never did another draught satisfy her
so much. Ii may be rather a sensuous
way of stating it. but why not call this
the taste of money" The same goes
very far IN these days 4 Broadway
dealer last week sold strawberries at the
rate of $40 quart. Receiving a few
raised in ii Jersey dollhouse, lie put them
into little baskets holding from four to
dozen berries each, and readily dispos-
ell of them for twenty five cents berry.
| The same dealer expects peaches NJ xt
week which will cost three dollars each.
Il is not the strawberry or peach taste in
either case that sells his goods, but
money tasie''
{ The 'moaey outlook is equally efFcc-
/ tive. A contemporary tells US TIA: just
nov there is in this market 81 panic in
roses. /" Last winter all flowers weie
scarce and high Buds OF the Cornt liza
/ Cook rose commanded at one time SIS
per hundred. of cathafinc Mermet, $50
per hundred, AMI of General Jaequemi-
not, S12 a dozen, 50 that every grower
with weIl-ordered rose-house had a
snug income assured. This year these
flowers have been mere extensively cuI-
tivateai. The seasons, both summer and
| winter, have been more favorable, and
the product is abundant: hut, 10, The de-
mand has fallen 10 comparatively moth
ing. These beauties now havent tbe
money look and buyers don't want
them As our Beighbor puts il, sThe
festive youth who would gladly demon.
sirate his devotion for his fair one by
decorating her with $15 boqnet wsuId
scorn to purchase flowers that 90 I,egg-
ing for buyer. and looks away for some
more costly offering,
But this ''money tasie'' and money
look play their part not alone, MOI
chs fly, ia flowers and fruits, but in the
whole range Of things bought, sold OF
a~esi Strangely enoug! the s.moncy
taste and lock" do not always attract
they mere frequently repel. Or rather
perhaps, il is strange that they ever NJ.
fras (, everybody knows that they often
or generally fepel Most Gustsmers
wasn't their purchases 10 cost AZ little 4,
they can. Tie dealer must draw by
. making his goods seem cheap. Once IN
while he will meet one with an anne.
lite for this money TASTE, and then. il
may be be IS justified ia gralif, ing Il
! i 4 friend of ours one day found it i'm
possible 10 suit customer with any oI
his goods. till. suspecling the reason. Ia
J, adroitIy brought forward some from the
; package which had ~ first been cs,n
!, fcmptnpIlsIY rejected, sal. ciiar.i. Z
double price for them, taund that III. ,
were exactly lie thing. lie Ias,ffl,S
J las exlrhisant profit rs fes ling snrt tia
!. he frsfssf make IL or not sell "a all Hi,
]. Ieusfpnler WAS suited and happy. and ;.
Was he. The successful salesman ma,
know how IL measure his eHsf MRS
Il snd while he should d, nothing iis
Il honess. he may have the right fss ailpv
those who arc siefefnsinfa Ia nav hi.l
prices 10 do 50. fthey viii Have :
not scripture warrant FIR sansseflfsy
q .onl according 10 his folly -