The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-15

cnases be made up 10 the exact
amount or left unbought The big res
succumbed next.
\ frenchman. who normally score
Lively taxes change out OF hi pocket |
Lor lear IT will be seen ht~ much
money he has got. Openly Haunted |
Of "billets de ~anuue" i'm the
lace Of the public TO declare his sol
Fency and under the nose OF the
waiter as a bride for change. and
there was not q taker. |. O. Us were
preferred. Some put up bills and ate
up TO their value by degrees. The
cafe was the last money changing
stronghold to fall, but when all the
city was rushing there 10 change a
franc bill for a SIX cent cup
OF coffee, they went one worse and
demanded, MAN. of them. payment in
The public with pockets
stuffed with money saw itself con-
fronted on every side with the notice
NO Money Changed Here"
Pay as You Enter"
So Paris entered its Pay-as-you-
enter existence. Recall the thought
quir to have that street car nickel
ready, then think OF being obliged to
nave the eXact change IL your hand
for the business of life as you go
along, and it is easy to see that The
tear of hell produces results that are
a good imitation of the real thing.
Two Contributing Factors.
Two factors contributed to the sue
cessful working of this strike against
making change. First take the French
mode OF living, organized on q cash
basis, setting up each days expenses
as they go along; credit is almost IN
known among the masses and little
resorted to by any class. hen the in
II instructive adherence of the
French at all times Of changing
money. In the smaller businesses and
in the little shops it has always been
almost Impossible to get change above
ten francs. They win fatty refuse tC
change a bill in mos cases, and they
VIII make all kinds of eNcuses for no,
changing even smaller money. They
avoid the subject; they VIII crawl ou1
of it on any pretext; they will lose q
sale or miss doing business on accoun
of it. 1t is a racial trait. Note &
french person of any class make
change and he OF she will do it with
phenomenal caution and distruSt. The,
regard the money, they regard you
they draw it back a few times, fina1l,
give it up with reluctance or with tn,
air of comforting upon You a grea
favor in thus breaking up for 20,
your spending unit, conveying also tn,
impression that you are benefitin,
more by the transaction than them
selves. 1t is this hesitation which
so frequently gives foreigners the iTG
preston in doing business IL Franc
that they are being cheated; plenty o
mistakes do occur, but the error i
just as likely to be one n your favo
as their own, and this comes princi
pally through the lack OF facility du
to want of practice in the making Q
change. 1t has always peen the IN
written law Of the little Commerce
that purchases shall be paid for i
coins as near to the exact amount c
the price of the goods as possible. It
the distrust of your money as again.
their money deep rooted in the Frenc
character.
ApolOgiSts and e~xplainecS said {
the change panic hat it was becaus
) there was no gold. 1t made no dill
ference whether it was a gold pieo
or a silver fve-francs. They woul
not change a two sous copper
Hide The Money.
/ saw one of the biggest banks re
fuse to change a French gold piec,
l 1t was said the people really did NJ
have the money themselves. None
for the current expenses of tn
wealthiest nation in Europe does NJ
e vanish into air in three days. Whe
the small people Of Paris went insid
their houses and shut the doors it W.
t easy to see where the money wa
r They stuffed it away in trunks, cellar
t pots, pans: in their women's petit
cats, for this class still wear tn
S garment, and simply stopped all wor
V to sit at home and guard it.
s French friends of mine with a
g apartment in Paris, a villa at Trouvil
s and a chateau in the country, yaCl
and automobiles, who could not raj:
the smallest loan or borrow from II
e dearest friend after three days litera
e y without food, succeeded III gettiI
t 500 francs in gold from the milkms
Il around the corner through the agen'
of their cook. These are the Peep
Il who did have the money.
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