The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-09-28
Helping Pay the Rent.

A certain professional man o.
Cairo, whose "shingle" has a con
spieuous place in the downtown dis
trict, paid SIS for velour hat last
fall and thereby lies a tale.
The aforesaid velour hat, which
was one of the newest of conceits
last season, was purchased by the
aforesaid professional man either in
Chicago or ST. Louis and If it were
not for the fact that he exchanged
hats with astertain bank cashier il
might never have been learned that
he spent his money out-of-town. 1t
happened like this:
The professional man and the
bank cashier, whose heads are about
the same size, or rather, who wear
hats Of the same size. attended GER
tain meeting After the adjourn.
ment the bank cashier and the pro-
fessional went to their homes
wearing each others hat, but they
we're not aware OF the fact that
night.
The following day the bank cash
Ter looked into the hat and was sur
prised to see initials other than his
own, pasted to the band 1t was not
his hat: therefore 1t became neces-
sary for the bank cashier to find out
who the hat belonged to and who
had his hat. He went over the
;,,ttsn1o NJ fbn man yx.hr bo1 affnna
ed the meeting and finally repeated
those OF the professional man.
by goily." quoth the bank cash
Ter, that fellows got my hat and
I've got his" Or words to that eff
feet.
He FASTENED TO the telephone and
held a conversation with the pro-
fessional man, so the story goes, and
later they met and re-changed hats
That's pretty good hat, said
the professional man, as he tenderly
stroked the velour II bought thai
out-of-town. Paid SIS for il
Couldn't get hat like that If
Cairo.
The bank cashier did little
thinking on the subject and then. II
is said, he remarked: why that
hat isn't bit better than the one
I've got and | paid only SIS for
mine The professional man doubt
ed this statement very, very much
He looked at the sweat band for the
trade mark and 10 and behold. the
trade marks were the same!
The professional man made Ger.
tain noises with his throat, accord.
tng to witnesses, which indicated
that he was disgruntled. However
he did not have much to say. Whats
the use OF trying to unstung ones
self anyway?
We repeat this story in substantial
ton of recent statement published
in this column to the effect that GER
tain articles can be purchased for
lower prices in Cairo than in st
Louis and Chicago There are scores
Of articles of wearing apparel and
house hold goods that are sold for
higher prices in the big cities and
despite this fact, residents Of Cairo
who ought to spend Their money at
home, will spend railroad fare and
pay freight bills for such articles
simply because they think the price
ought To make them better than the
product offered by Cairo merchants
We are reminded of a similar in
cident. which involves young WON
an Of Cairo. who spent $3.50 worth
of perfectly good Cairo money in
St. Louis department store for a long
winter cloak
She saw the same article in one Of
the Cairo stores. marked SEQ and in
addition to congratulatlng herself
she managed to get word to the pro
prietor of the store. in which the
$22 cloak was on sale. "a compari-
son was later made and il was found
that the $3.50 coat was in tho
s1450 class The Cairo merchant
had seen sample of similar coat
which he could have sold for $3.50
but he refused to handle the article
because of its shoddiness. However
the young woman could not be con
WINGED that she lost SIS, instead OF
gaining $3.50 on the deal She doubt
less will change her mind the first
time she il caught in the rain with
the cloak on. We count upon her to
help swell the membership of the
Buy-at-Home club,
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