Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-08-17

London, July 1Os-tlrbt thlnR you
.onder at in London is how cheap
Eerything isl You can get SO many
hings for a penny. In fact you can
et everything for n penny. Being an
m%erican, when you lay down six
ence, which is first cousin-two
snts older-than a dime, for a penny
aper, which the newsboy, who is any
here from twenty-five to ninety
ears old, informs you is a "piper,''
'Ou walk away without your change,
Shich he calls "chynge." That is, if
Ou wait for II, he does. But If you
ak away, he calls it the eternal,
berlasting, ubiquitous, irritating
English "Thank you'll" with an indie
sribable rising infection on the
you" For a few days you spend
%ennies like a duke In the novels Of
Do type so dear, in America, TO the
eart Of what is known in the best Of
er own society as the "sicking
bul." But the second girls duke
bends pennies thus lavishly only in
hs novel. After a day or two you go
the bank-pronounced, by the Bus
Bnductor, "benh''-with your letter
4 credit and a frown like a villain e
the third act You haven't spent
thing but pennies, but your money
all gone. Little by little II dawns
BON you that while you have spent
tthing but pennies, you have spent
lem necessarily, all day long, every
mute, for everything you saw, did,
y, looked at or asked for. That's all.
b one thing, II you are old as ] am,
u English penny is an honest disc of
|pper just the size Of the old-time
herican cent which was current
puey Of the merchant when your dad
hs a boy, and was a real William
Innings Bryan cent, with a cent's
birth Of copper in it, by fair weight.
doesn't occur to you, until You sit
bwn and consider while you wait in
ls bank, that the English penny is
10 American cents. And, II Is worth
Dem. It is like everything else Eng ,
NJ, honest as it's name. For in
|apce, as the boy and / passed a bar
n shop, / observed that one could DO
hatly shaved for four pence. Now,
had never had a four-cent shave in
" life. How foolish 10 shave ones
|h when one could have a valet to
haye one for four cents. 50 I said to
he boy, eco toi ! viii have a four
mt shave" Add the boy said, "Go
10, for / likewise will chance IT," He
PIT the kind of a boy to see his old
Pther rush madly into unknown perils
pa not stand by him. SO he went in.
~ unemployed mar administered
|hat he called a "shyve." About the
Pyle you get down on the Plaza end
\ Spring street. Two days under the
bin and tips on tho races for one
Fiee. Then he wanted to know elf !
|anted my face washed" Cert
|snny. Then, "Did / want my hair
Pubedi'' Cert, Penny. "Did / want
coat brushedi" Naturally. Penny
Did I want something a~ntiseptic and
|aaling, such as bay rum, rubbed on
y facet Course. Penny. Until,
the time one got out Of the shop,
Pc had had, and paid for, a ffteen-
fht shave, That's all. Things in
|erOPe look cheap, until you eOme to
" for them. Then they cost coin In
pay ii memory serves me correctly,
Il paid for the article we bought.
ben we paid for the wrapping paper,
psa Tor the string, then for each knot
: salesman tied in it. An extra for
nt'le loop wherewith to hang it on
|'ur finger, And in Syria, the mer-
pAat charged rs brokers' commission
Y making change. Things don't cost
/ much at first price, but every last
.'eong, thread, knot and seap
''ss them costs something.
There is one exception. Clothes.
rea's clothes, that is. / speak with