The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-27
WOMAN USUALLY
BUYS
They Make Practice of Getting
Everything at Bottom Price.

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Mothers Magazine: In the growth
of the American republic VIC have re.
garded the tariff as of serious import
ance. We have political questions
which seriously disturb business stu
ations.
But-thcre is nothing more import
ant in this nation or the life of any
other nation than the p%ocketbook of
the wife. We hear a great deal of
high cost OF living. and l agree
with Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
and DIR. Wiley, the pure food authori-
ty lately employed by the government,
that some of this is due to the fact
that our land is not cultivated to it's
ntmos limit. We do not produce as
II as We might. because men and
women are lazy with farm land and
40 not take the best advantage of
their opportunity. IT they did beef
would be cheaper. flour much lower
in price. and the green vegetable sup
ply far greater than at the present
time.
The original question Of social
economies which we have to consider
at the present time is not the tariff or
the finances of one of the richest gov.
ernments in the world, but the pocket
book of the wife. I emphaticaliy state
that do not mean the %pocketbook of
the husband. the earning factor of the
FAMILY, but the pocketbook of the wife
who has the home and the children
under her control.
Will suppose h knows how to exc
pend the money that is placed in her
charge. She may have earned it
through the truck garden at the rear
OF her house; the husband may give it
to her every Saturday night: the chill
dren may. through their efforts. bring
I'm part Of it. But the greatest question
Is not where that money comes from,
as long as it was honestly received,
but does she know what to do with it?
How far can she make il 20, not
merely in paying household expenses,
but In placing part of it so that it will
begin to earn interest and duplicate
itself?
The tendency Of the average
is to buy anything. from potatoes to
the undertaking of her children, as
cheaply as possible. That is the worst
~ reduces the high cost of living by
paying 81 high price for an article that
is worth it. 1t is very difficult to con-
vince a housewife of this fact, but
when she once realizes this she Is on
n true road to making money.
Some years ago 1t was necessary for
me to finance the relaying with new
steel rails nearly LOO miles of rail-,
way which l represent. l went into the
market and found that / could obtain
a certain rail at an extraordinarily
low price. At the Immediate moment
1t mean a saving of over $4,000, 900.
But my chief engineer said to me that
it was false economy to take that rail,
and recommended another rail much
higher in price. Tho immediate ex-
penditure on the other rail was S5,-
0D0,O00 more than I had anticipated,
but ! needed his advice and the rail
was placed.
What was the result? A competing
railway with me purchased the cheap
er rail n had to relay It within four
years at a far greater expense than
the original installation. The rails for
which / paid the high price are still
in service. BY paying the highest price
for a good article my chief engineer
estimated later that 1 saved the stock
holders of the company forty per lent
on tho investment.
am not stating this fac In q boast
full way. but to show that 1t is good
policy to buy a fine grade article ut
the highest price rather than to buy a
cheap n at "a low price. 1t makes no
difference whether one Is purchasing
miles of steel rails or un~derclothing
for the children. or a bunch Of onions;
buy the best, pay the price. and keep
on working,