The courier., 1902-09-13
N01m momey

Everybody likes bright money" said
the cashier In an uptown restaurant to a
friend and customer. who, picking up
handsome new quarter from the change
the cashier had just given him, had said:
My, that's bright one"
ITS pretty to look at" the cashier
went on, as the customer lighted q cigar,
''and plenty oil people would save it, for
time anyway. They single out all the
bright coins they get and put them away
TIL they get busted, and then away they
go.
Il know men-I guess We all do. for
that matter-wnO give all the bright
money they get TO their wives; when tney
get q bright oIme or quarter or half tney
uont pass 1t out, but carry 1t home, anu
,nelr wives treasure II up III some little
household emergency arises, a mix bin
Comes in st an unexpected time, or
something Oh tIat sort ana sweeps away
,ne collection. hm-m! 1 guess the man
lnat gives All the bright money he gets 10
ms wife dOesn lose mucn Dy it.
But We an ike bright money, old anu
young; are The cnnuren not all mighty
pIeased to get a bright cent? And, speax-
ing OF bright cents, makes me InInk OF a
collector 1 know VINO never gives out any
clner KIND III cnange. Every month before
Lac Starts on MS ROUNDS collecting ne ge,s
ten dollars worth Oh new cents from the
oank, and when ne has occasion 10 manr
cnange with pennies in II he gives out
tnose bright ones; the dulI ones ne takes
AL ne keeps In MS pocket
business men sometimes give out i'm
cnange bright SILVER only as an advertise
nent L used TO know a store keeper up
Inird avenue VINO did this. No matter
how much or how little you bought there
Whatever silver change was coming you
got in bright silver
People VINO didn't know about this.
and who Oh their first purchase there,
which might be. say, 10 cents, got in
change bright dime, a bright quarter
and bright half. thought as they looked
admiringly at these three handsome coins
that 1t Was funny they should have hap
pened to get all three bright, like that.
But of course if they kept on going
there they at once discovered that there
they got nothing but bright silver in
change. The storekeeper simply kept
himself supplied, and passed out that
only.
There used to be, as you will yourself
remember, a man down Broadway who
gave out, when he had occasion to give
out bills in change, new bills only. He
carried these new bills of the several de-
nominations in as many pockets; the ones
in one pocket, the twos in another, and SO
on; and If you gave him larger bill, he
would without an instants hesitation and
apparently without looking at the bills he
another the right change IN those hand
some new bills.
That sort of paper money is what We
call and rather fondly, too, crisp new
money. But while We certainly do like
those crisp new bills-and of course
there's a good deal more in them than
there Is bright silver-I am inclined to
think the bright money, the bright coin,
appeals to our fancy more than crisp
bills do.
1T Is upon money in its metallic form.
the actual coin, that we look as the en-
1odiment Of money, to begin with. and
here is something about coin with the
silky lustre of newness on it that pleases
us greatly This brightness attracts US
even in copper, as well as in silver; how
much more does it appeal to us in shin
ing gold?'-New York Sun.
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