The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
TIE USEFUL PENNY.
The Wonderful Choice of Things Which
| the PossessOr Has Before Him.

The Wonderful Choice of Things Which
the Possessor Has Before Him.
In the old country with your penny
you can get your mornings ride on
the tramcar; boat ride from London
bridge TO Greenwich; mile and a half
bus ride almost anywhere: mile and
half railway ride on the Metropolitan.
Ii you are a smart clerk, before you
go into your office, with penny you
can buy bunch of violets; or cigar
cite; or daily paper; or have your
boots BACKED; or buy a tin of wax
vestas; or a rustic wood pipe; or
metal closeup pipe cleaner from pave
ment vender. If you are a workman,
and you haven't got a careful wife,
for penny you can get breakfast of
thick slice of bread and butter and a
cup OF coffee; you can buy savelov
for an extra relish; you can get
screw of tobacco; you can buy glass
of milk; you can get a shave and make
yourself smart.
If you are in the city at lunch time,
with penny you can buy biscuit or
scone, or an oatmeal digestive bis
cult; you can buy the first edition of
the evening paper at p. M, or post
age stamp to send letter home to say
that you are going to be late; if you
have lost a shirt stud from bending
over your desk, for penny you can
buy half dozen from the shirt stud
vender; if you happen to be near the
law courts and want to know if
friends case is in court, for penny
you can buy causelist. If you are
nice little boy, who has had penny
given to you, with that wonderful coin
you can get in the street set of three
toy white jugs; or tin lizard; or
jumping frog; or dolls house; or
jumping dog; or jack-in-the- box; or
trick surprise match box; or a green
moth on spiral string.
If you are going home from business
In the street, too, you can buy for
penny-a pair of mohair laces; set
of pencils with guard and pen; "the
smallest book ever printed" piece of
sponge; a penknife; set of fairy
money; lead or composition comb;
"puzzle match box" a bag of anti
influenza lozenges; set of wire pipe
cleaners; dose of sarsaparilla from
the highly decorated cart; an electric
shock; gaivanic shock; bottle of
infallible mucilage; box of silver
plating powder; box or bottle of gild
ing preparation, and box of clothes
reviver. For penny, too, you can
have your fortune told by the Italian
lady with the wonderful canaries.
You can buy gilt edged mirror, or a
packet Of hockey pokey, or an albert
guard, or a toy watch with chain
and key, or set of dice, or an arti
fetal flower pot with a flower in it, or
a slice of pineapple, or bag of butter
nuts.
Then, again, think of the automatic
machines when you arrive at the rail
way station. For a penny-a penny
in slot-out comes a small cigar or
cigarette, or chunk OF butter scotch,
or a packet of caramels, or piece of
chocolate, or some scent for your
handkerchief, or try your weight, or a
"shock," or try your height, a glass
of water with paper cup, or try your
strength. Last, not least, for penny
you can have book of all the popu-
lar songs with moosic;" Bunyan's
pilgrims Progress;" an umbrella
ring;a pair of revolving gilt collar
studs; ''tightlet" to fasten your
scarf or collar; block of fuel: a mem
orandum book; zinc pail; funnel
a toasting fork; an iron hanger; an
egg boiler; copper wire flower pot
hanger; the hardest puzzle OUT" a
packet of hat reviver; tooth stopping;
tin or razor paste; sometimes pocket
knife this last will clean me QUIT :;
and hundreds of other things for the
life of us we can never recollect-Ex-
change.