The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-02-08
That Reminds Me

i Continued from last week, being ont
of several stories told under the title o
! "How we get buncoed" People wh'
4 make mistakes in business do not like t,
have others know it, but this series il
! published to give others the benefit o
! experience in buying thru catalogs.)
"My husband and l made up oul
! minds to get silverware for the table
1 and we wanted something good. W.
did not have money to lavish on such
things, but we wanted few pieces o
good ware engraved to suit our liking
and when we examined the home deal
er's stock we did not find the pattern
we wanted. He had some that was nice
and he guaranteed it to be triple plate,
but it was not what we wanted. sup
pose he would have ordered the pattern
we liked, but at this time a particular
! friend of ours learned we wanted silver
ware and brot us catalog showing
goods handled by some of her relatives
in San Fsancisco, and was sure every
thing would be just as recommended. In
addition to this she wanted 10 take the
order, and while she professed to be act.
ing out of friendship, was as patient in
trying to get the order as if it were of
some material interest to her. The pat
terms we selected we're guaranteed to be
triple plated. with an extra tip on the
points where the most wear comes.
The price was reasonable for that
grade Of goods, and out of curiosity we
borrowed Montgomery Ward catalog
and compared their prices for something
similar. Their price was cheaper, but
my husband said he would expect to get
the worst of it if we bot of them, SO we
gave our lady friend check and in
structed her to order the goods. After
several weeks she rang up and asked us
to mail her check for S6 to pay for the
engraving We did not feel satisfied
about that, it seemed too much, but we
sent her the check and waited. In due
time the goods came, and the knives
and forks did not match for size. They |
seemed light too, but we could not tell
what was in them by feeling of them,
and when we called the attention Of our
lady friend to the odd sizes she took
the matter up with the house and they
wrote back that we would have to keep
them. That was cold comfort, for we
thot after we had paid everything they
asked OF us we ought to have what we
wanted, but we accepted the situation,
odd sizes and all, and made up our
minds that friendship and business we're
two different things, and ought not to
be mixed. The firm afterwards sent the
handsome sum Of eighty cents refund
for sending us the wrong sizes. In the
meantime the earthquake and fire de-
stroyed the city and the silver dealers
with it. After we had used the table
silver few weeks it wore thru on the
places that were supposed to be extra
tipped" and it takes considerable chari-
ty to keep from being angry when we
see the stuff that our friend got for us
in the bunco game. The worst feature
about it was that we paid So to have the
engraving done on something that looks
like what they make harness mount
ings Of"
"That reminds me of what friend OF
mine got in millinery said another lady.
But somebody interposed and said,
"Now don't lay it all on your friend.
Fess up and say it was yourself" And
she said, "Well il that makes it any bet
ter will. saw an advertisement Of a
nice up o.date hat. 1t was just what |
wanted, and was quoted at fair price.
They said that il it was not precisely as
described | could return it and get my
money back. | sent the money, and got
the hat. 1t was like the description in
every particular, but it was dolls hat.
There was nothing said about size, but
the hat was Just the size OF the picture
Of it. kept the hat
"What would you do to home mer-
chant who would play as bad trick on
your asked one Of the party.
"Why would never buy anything OF
him again in the world, and l would tell
everybody l could, how he had tricked
me-"