Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-07-25
A FEW DON'TS.


Don't allow your grocer or dairy
man to weigh in the wooden butter
dish when he is weighing your butter.
These butter dishes frequently. weigh,
in accordance with their size, from
an ounce to three ounces. You will
observe some of them very prettily
decorated with tin on the edge. Re-
member, if they weigh these in, they
are selling you the tin and the wood
at the price of butter.
Don't let the fancy package goods
| fascinate you, because you are fire.
quently paying very heavily for the
fancy package and in most cases get
| ting considerably less of the product
than you would if buying it loose.
Butter put up in prints is sanitary,
but be sure you are getting 16 ounces
of butter without the paper or the
carton.
Don't buy in careless MANNER
That is, always ask for whatever the
commodity is by known weight or
measure Avoid asking for a cupful,
| scents worth or 10-cents worth,
package, a handful, a glass, a jar, a
bag, basket, bucket or a tub. All
of these terms mean nothing in the
| law; unless you say pound, or
quart or a gallon, or whatever amount
| you want.
Don't neglect to test the weight OF
package goods at home and compare
them with the weight of the same
commodity purchased loose. To IL
| lustrate this, try to follow it. Buy
/ 1O-cent package of oat meal or rolled
oats; then buy 10-cents worth OF
loose rolled oats of the best grade.
Take them both home Empty out
the package of rolled oats on your
scale and weigh it; then compute how
much a pound you have paid for 1t
as a package. Remove the rolled oats
which you have placed upon the scale
| from the scoop, and then put thereon
the loose rolled oats and compute the
price per pound you have paid for
these. Note the difference. Determ-
inc for yourself which is more eco
nomical allowing, of course, for the
amount of sanitary protection you are
getting in the package. Try this ex-
pertinent with soda crackers. Buy
package of one of the standard brands
cf crackers and cents worth OF
loose soda crackers, and do as you
did in the case of the rolled oats Try
this experiment with most all of the
other package goods, and especially
| it is important that you try this ex-
pertinent with bottled goods for eX-
ample-yinegar Purchase large
bottle of vinegar and then quart OIL
loose vinegar Empty your bottle OF
vinegar into your quart measure ana
YOU will see how much less than
quart you have actually received.
Don't hesitate to notify this depart
ment if you have any suspicious What-
ever of the merchant with whom you
are doing business. Your relations
with this department can be as conn-
Dental as you choose to make fnem
! Always remember that while perhaps
YOU individually may be able to stand
| these petty losses in your trading,
that there are poorer people who are
dealing with the same merchant who
cannot so readily stand them, and
YOU will be protecting these poorer
neople against the thefts of the dis
| honest tradesman Do not, however,
be too ready to condemn the trades-
man. There are honest merchants,
and thousands of them in the state
Tradesmen make mistakes and clerks
make mistakes. A mistake need not
always be a dishonest one. Let THIS
department know of your trouble, and
we can Judge very promptly whether
the shortage has been the result Oh
| a mistake or dishonesty
Don't buy ice from your dealer un-
less he weighs it for you Immediately
before delivery, in accordance with
the Jaw
Cont receive coal from your dealer,
unless the, driver presents ticket
! with the total weight Demand that
the ticket be shown you before the
/ coal is dumped from the wagon. Ihe
law gives you the right that all coal
| be re-weighed upon public scale. II
YOU have any doubt as to the honesty
! Of the driver of the coal wagon, or
! the company itself, send the driver TO
A public scale and insist upon him
bringing back with him the weigh
masters certificate showing the
weight.
Read carefully the tables and the
laws on weights and measures.
Learn your rights and take advan-
tage of them.
/ Common Sense Economy Hints 10
Housekeepers.
Intelligent purchasing is done upon
definite specification of quality and
quantity, and the fundamental thing
Ito know is the quantity-how much
is received for certain money $
! worth. The manufactures vigorously
insists upon receiving what he pays
for; unfortunately he is not always
willing to let customers know how
much he is giving. A business like
retailer checks everything that goes
into his place and knows now mucn
/ goes out. If he sells intelligently
he sells most of his commodities by
weight. The reason why many con-
4 sumers are imposed upon is because
the housekeeper does not conduct
business intelligentiy or economically
The purchaser should purchase only
from dealers who have sealed scales
.x-o;o,a+e apd measures and then Oe-