Evening journal., 1905-11-27
QUEER THINGS
YOU OBSERVE in
EXCHANGE ADS.
Baby Carriages Offered Side
by Side With Pianos and
Bull Terriers
DDITIESTHAT ARE STRIKING

Exchange what you don't want for
what you do
That was the topic Of conversation
in many a home in Wilmington Satur
day right and Yesterday. and today the
EXCHANGE columns of the Evening
journal show the result.
Do YOU notice how many more bar
gains are offered today through these
little advertisements? If you have not
looked. Just turn back and you'll find
how alive the people generally are to
the situation.
Before the Evening Journal started
it's EXCHANGE department, there was
no medium through which any one
cou'd make known his anxiety to dis
pose of some article useless TO him or
her. But now the difficulty has been
overcome. The columns of the Journal
are open TO the world at large for this
purpose.
It makes no difference whether these
little advertisements come i'm by the
hundreds or thousands. they VIII be
published and tho myriads of Journal
readers will see them.
odd Things We Use.
The very oddity of the idea Is one of
the attractions and. come to think of
it isn't It odd that you can scan the
EXCHANGE columns of the Evening
journal and find that some one wants
to trade or sell that very thing you
have been looking for. and didn't know
where you could get ID cheap?
Curionsly enough there We're just 122
offers of one kind or another in the
EXCHANGE columns. Gancing over
them You find everything from so
small an article as a book, to piano
IS offered for exchange.
From hull terriers to a go'f mine is a
long stretch, but not near so far as
from a young ,ady's winter hat to a car
plant and yet they are all represented
in these columns.
Did YOU notice that some one offered
a bagatelle table ard that another per
son had a ~ tune music box to ex-
change Both are fine for winter even
ings.
Suggests Seven Ages.
In another column thore is an offer
of handsome baby carriage to ex-
change for a boys bicycle This is sug
gestive of the transition of a youths
life Evidenty y the young man, who
not long since was wheeled about i'm
, the parambuiator. has passed into the
# second stage of his life where his am
btion is 20 be able TO coast down the
hills just like any other boy.
Towers. tanks and windmills as well
as gold watches bear heavy on their
owners hands and can be obtained for
nearly a song
Nobody has applied at the Evening
Journal Office as yet for the hairpins
and baby appliances that wege picked
up at Fourth and Market streets the
other evening. There can be no use
for these things in a newspaper office
and &C is hoped. therefore, that the own
e- wsl not be backward about claim
ing them.
Romance Hers.
Maybe some one is thinking of get
trg married and setting mp housekeep-
ing. In the furniture" column some
one advertiscs for the furnishings of
six room house. Is this not sugges-
tive? Is there not a romance behind
the advertisement?
When. in one column YOU read that
a horse is for sale and in tae next
column you see the words hair and
switches DO you not instantly Won
de7 whether the horse is white and the
hair bright auburn?
And there I'm bold type are the words
"a good feeder They strike your
eye and you wonder If the person
wants board, until YOU read further
and see that he really wants job.
Necessarily a good feeder out Of work
must have something TO do so that he
may earn his keep
These are Just few of the many
numerous and curious things YOU sec
I'm tho EXCHANGE columns. After
awhile. when you know whore thesi
columns are. they will be the FIRST you
will read IN the paper when YOU are in
want of something or when you wish
10 part with an article YOU no longer
treasure
Remember that the EXCHANGE col
umns of the Evening journal are in
reality the greatest department. store
i'm the word. You viii use them every
day when you become familiar with
them and you cannot begin too quickly
The cost is trihing and the results
immediate.