Evening journal., 1905-12-09
BRIGHT DAYS
FOR HOUSEWIVES
No Longer Need Their Dwell
ineS Be Filled with Articles
That are Not Wanted
AN EASY WAY TO SELL THEM

TheSe are times when the housewife
wishes the house we're not 50 filed with
artlces for which she has no use-arti-
cles which have been gathering in the
hooks and corners until it seems to
her that there is really no room for the
new table or the easy chair she has
set her heart upon.
Really it seems to her that she
would like to have genuine house
cleaning so that she could give away
/ the things she does not want or sell
them TO the rag man for nothing, just
SO she could get them out of the way.
Each and everyone of these articles
was at one time dear to her heart
Some of them cost many many dollars
and. as she glances over the array,
she wishes she had the money they
represent At no time does this inn
press her so much as when she wishes
TO purchase Christmas presents for her
family and friend and finds her purse
nearly empty.
Here IL is chat the EXCHANGE page
of the Evening Journal helps her out
II is a providential saving for her
She has. perhaps, noticed that it is
printed every day. but she has not real
lied that its columns are for her bene-
fit as well as for the man who wants
to exchange his services for money,
board or instruction.
Finally she notices that there is
table or a piano offered for exchange,
and she writes the owner and finds
that she can get a real bargain. The
person Offering the article is in the
same predicament as herself and it
teaches her a lesson. If another can
offer surplus goods, why cannot she
do the same?
The next day she offers through the
columns of the EXCHANGE page a
summer hat and to her surprise far
mer's wife answers and offers a tub Of
butter or a barrel of apples in exchange.
She accepts the tub of butter and both
she and the farmers wife are happy.
Then she grows bolder and offers
more pretentious articles. A music
box. fit for any par,or but which has
been supplanted' by a piano player in
her home, is the next article she offers
and she gets a real sealskin muff in
exchange. Her old one had suffered
from the inroads of the moth
Again both parties to the trade are
satisfied and her husband, finding how
easy il is to effect a trade. offers his
team Of horses for an auto. Strange as
it may seem. The offer finds a taker
and he is surprised at the readiness Of
the swap. Il seems to both man and
wife that there is a taker for every
thing they have TO offer and they has
ten to place everything they have no
use for in the Journal in, attractive
fo.m.
Soon, very soon. they find that they
have swapped away everything that
has a value to anybody and they are
happy. No longer is the house filed
with articles of which they are tired.
New articles are on every side and the
housewife has full purse, something
that would not have been possible If
she had been forced to purchase all
the things that have been added TO her
inventory.
And so it goes. The only trouble is
that some persons get so infatuated
with the EXCHANGE page that they
do not know when to stop The conse-
.Quence is that they continue to swap
their goods until there is a constant
change of their possessions.
Thus it is that the real estate man
sometimes finds It's hard to keep track
of owners. The property has been
traded so often that the records stand
in danger of becoming mixed. and all
through the EXCHANGE columns of
the Evening Journal.
The horse trader and tho man who
tramps about the country swapping
and getting the better of everybody
else, finds business hard to get now
days. Why should the suburban resi-
dent deal with him when the EX-
! CHANGE columns are so handy and
the offerings so much better and more
varied? Why take an article which
my o. may not be all right when,
through the EXCHANGE columns, a
large variety may be offered?
These are the questions very many
are asking themselves now. Il used to
be different. Then there was no
NA'ANN. Aou hoA " AaND what was VI
fered by the dealer Now you can be
independent and hold your surplus ar
ticle or goods, until you have offered
you something which is just what you
want.
It is odd what a difference little
advertisement makes in the affairs of
the citizen. And IL is odder still that
YOU can do so much, so satisfactorily
and for so little money. Really the
cost does not count, it is so small.
Count it up and you viii find tnat it
is far less than the comission the mer-
chant charges YOU for selling vour nro.