The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-12-19
oulEf AFFAIRS.
Pawnshops which Do Not Hang out the
Three Significant Balls.


Three Significant Balls
In my rambles around this great
metropolis have been surprised at the
many methods of making 4 living.
writes New York correspondent of
The Detroit Tribune. Certainly if one
half the world do not know how the
other half live, they just as little know
how the other half make their living
, There is on Fourteenth street place
/ which gets its patronage from the very
swelleSt and most exclusive circles of
society. The place has no sign. moth
1 ing to give it away as a pawnbroker's
shop. but such it is. notwithstanding
| its handsome entrance and liyeried
door tender, who ushers the visitors or
patrons into an elegantly furnished
drawing room, decorated with rare
bric-a-brac and choice paintings The
woman who keeps it, for the proprie-
tor is woman. is dressed in tho latest
style, and receives her customer as If
a guest. II is not until after the usual
exchange of morning salutations that
What can do for madame this
mornings"
Tho madame displays a set of jew
elry, diamonds, perhaps, or bric-a-
brac, on which she wishes a loan.
Sometimes a note is given at the rate
of Is or,20 per cent These notes,
however. seldom go to protest; for the
givels do not care to have these trans
actions known to their husbands; but,
apart from that, they care but little,
as it is generally understood that a
woman frequently exceeds her allow
ance and makes it up on the next,
while the obliging broker makes q
good profit from the necessities OF
fashionable women.
The duplicate gift" woman who
calls at the handsome "brown front
house just after a fashionable wed
ding is known to the neighbors, who
sec her descend from carriago or ba.
rouchc only as caller, but shc makes
quito a living in buying up the dupli-
cate gifts. Every one knows that the
wedding gifts of season run in
grooves. and that most brides, on
looking over their possessions. find a
large proportion of their gifts dupli-
Gated. The bride who wept herself i'll
on finding that she had seven butter
dishes. every one alike, with COW on
the cover, had not the advantage OF
the bride of today, who calls to her
aid the buyer of such duplicates.
NZAlS VI liz lNCPAltbA Vi lSASt
son found among her 700 wedding
presents - silver plated candlcsticks.
8 bronze busts of Shakespeare, etch-
ings of biillcts "Angclus," 10 silver
hand mirrors. 8 engravings of ono pic.
tllrc. fish knives. % pickle and olive
forks. 1G fans, IA jewel boxes, s bon
bop boxes and table crttn1b knives.
| What did she do with them2 The ex.
cllunge women came to her aid and
took most of the duplicates off her
hands. OF course they were disposed
of at Il sierilicc, and the young bride
worried FOR weeks for fear the trans
action would leak out, but what could
she do2 She could not litter up hei
rooms with duplicates. think i
would be good idea; when one il
sending out invitations for a fashion
able wedding. to add to each what ono
is desired 10 present, orclsc TO do.awaS
with gifts by saying; Gifts not dc
sired" am surf: either method would
save any amount of anfioyauce To botl
givcr and receiver.