Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-12-02
CONG FRoM HOME no BuY.
A Lesson With a Moral-One Of
the Evil Results.

Too many of our people. to their great
disadvantage and 10 the disadvantage Of
the town, 20 from home 10 make their
purchases, while in nine cases out of ten
they can buy the very same articles right
al homs for less money, and save the an
noyance and expense Of lugg ng great
bundles 10 and from the cars. We could
cite a number of instances where ladies
and men too-haye gone TO the city 10
make their purchases and paid more
for the articles than they could have pur-
chased them at home for. For illnstra-
ton: A lady went TO Baltimore the other
day and purchased large bill OF goods,
and among other articles were LOT of
mating, oil cloth, rugs, &c, and some
dress goods. A few days after she hap
pened 10 want some irifiing article-per
baps a yard OF cotton, or some lining, or
10 match a small reminent she had pur
chased away land went to one of our
leading merchants of the town TO make
the purchase. TO her great surprise she
saw the indentical mating and oil cloth
and rugs that she had bought In the city,
and 10 satisfy her curiosity, she asked
the ERIK the price of 1t. He told her.
She asked TO look at il. She examined
Il and found il of the same quality, If
not better She told the clerk that she
did not want IL just then, but but would
let her husband know, and would call
again. she made her little purchase of
a Yard or two of dress lining and also
matched her dress goods. and took her
departure. When her husband returned
home In the evening she did not appear
as pleasant as usual AMI he remarked:
What's been crossing you TO day, Annie;
you don't appear TO be in good humor?"
"No, John, am not" she replied. 81
was at Is store to-day" 1--WE are
not giving any free advertising just now
or we would give this merchants name)
land what do you think, / saw the iden-
tical oil cloth and mating that ! got in
Baltimore for ten cents yard less, and
am mad To think that could have saved
five or six dollars If | had bought it here.
| went there to buy little dress lining
and 10 match piece of cashmere which
got for ten C nts yard less, and bet
ter quality, than l paid for it at that
cheating Jew on Lexington street; and
10 my surprise / saw the same mating
and oil cloth for ten cents yard less
than paid for it. and felt like kicking
myself 10 think that had paid all that,
besides the freight and hauling, she
continued. Served you right. have
told you time and again, said the hus
band, "about running of to Baltimore
TO spend every dollar you get hold OF and
then when you want to get accommodated
you go to our merchants for your favors
and nine times out of ten, for your credit
Why that very merchant paid me bill
the other week for some work Ibid him;
and part of that very m ney spent was
tla rmnasyad from him, I h0nQ
hereafter what you have to buy you will
buy at home If Il can be had even il the
price is little more, for 1t pays to spend
your money at home"
The above actually occurred, and was
told to the CAPIrAL man by lady friend
whom we have the greatest esteem for,
and what is true in this case Is no doubt
applicable TO hundreds of others Our
people complain sometimes, of dull
times and hard times and these are Just
the things to make dull times and hard
times If everybody would spend their
money at home there would be more for
you and / and everybody. Our mer-
chants would flourish and would be bet
ter able to give you greater assortments
of good and cheaper goods. And also II
our me chants would be little more lib
eral with printers ink and advertise their
wants little more, and not let the Bal
timore jew shops attract our people
away from home to buy. they would find
that they would profit by 1t. We cay
this by way of innuendo, not that we are
interested any more than they but 1t is
business you know to patronize home in
dustry and home enterprises-it makes
everything boom-and that's what's the
matter with Annapolis.