The evening world. Newspaper, December 27, 1906, Page 14

‘ @udlisher by the Press Publ Entered at the Post-O! “VOLUME f The Bureau of Wei tail’ coal dealers, Within two weeks thirty found. The total number must be in the hur Of all forms of petty thievery, 5 among the meanest. Or ary {hiss weights and measure not only robs his < res his hone he rich. and, ferers. from ‘this vy but not to a proportionate extent with the poor. Some .people who! Gath can afford it buy their hous hold | fen —f supplies “by preference from the Sr mney ee who ene the highest prices. They believe that by paying | the most they get the best. Hence) lower prices are not the form that competition for the trade of the rich takes. Better quality counts for more. With the poor ths p weigl.ts is to make the p seem lower w! in fact it is hig One coal dealer was found who was selling 60 pounds of coal as} 100 pounds, He drew trade by cutting the hundred-pound price from} A0 to 35 cents. Giving full weight, he would be receiving $7 for a ton of coal which cost him sehaiseale $4.75 or $5. His competitors asked $8-7- By filing his Weights. and leaving off the counterbalance he was gett $1166, instead of his nominal price of $7,gr the competitive price-of Coal is only one instance. Sugar, coffee, lard. meat, butter and othe: Stock commodities sold by. weight rarely conté@in ths actual quantity Many dealers who believe they are thorotighly honest sell a wooden ¢ 7248S. butter, a tin pail as lard, a glass tumbler as jelly and bags and pack- “ages as sugar and coffee. Dishonest dealers yo further by doctoring their scales, which is easily done either by filing the weights 0 or-by putting a little lead under the end, The only object of short _ It is easy profitably to cut fle when the weights are cut. One} dealer doing this forces his neighbors to like_expedie: Prices cease to be based on honest competition, but on knavish pra | The Bureau of Weights and Measures has eighteen inspectors. An! inspector should be able to iy at least one set of weights and mieasure an hour, or eight stores a-day, Every violation of the law should be criminally prosecuted. : : Every dealer should be required to display publicly a cer t as | to the reliability of his scales andsnot be allover to have any uncertified | » Weights or measures on his premises. This isto the advantage of honest dealers. The ( Cane: Yard Meroe But the public nzed not rety on official inspection when private test are So easy. Every family should have household scales of its own These should be bought at a reliable store and taken to the city bu to be tested. * Then let every housesife weigh her own purchases—r butter, groceries, everything. If she finds she has been swindled, let hei fell the dealer why she quits buying from him and tell her the city bureau, too. That will bring trade to the honest d entitled tovit. Especially in buying meats at prese t Teweigh the purchase. | Make the bu r mmings in, and he will have m excuse that th unt for the discre} WV. Besides, trim- mings make good soup, and since the purchaser: paid for them, there is No reason to let the butcher keep them, Buy and-use 5 and protect ‘both yourselves and the neighbors an alers, wh nit high prices it is advisable t dream ft anda few (describing his tiret mee saw her he 3 n and courtship the rame qualit 1a wife or a husband fi 4 stronzer than T whi n of a Hereford or a Durh. Tint. js the fact * or to apply the adjective “beefs to a eliminate and the rea ir own & \ honest dealer, @ » The Evening World’s Daily Magazine, Thursday, _ iE “How to Uram a Wife. 2 cbsurd nervousness which affects s0 many women. to | comfort of the marriage on Dates on t Tolstol ng. To do awa vTOURNE. - answered, * te also abou! happy marringe as December 27. } rods with a spirit lam: Teach her not to be arate If she hears By Nixola Greeley-Smith.} 770 tot ash men © Sylvester Jones Laye with pie of Hymen down ‘An honest man's the noblest and about , the} rarest thing—at maidens ze tt. In.its higaest form Dante, s best described Tt of Ite wil and } heard a voice saying “Hebold the Gi r theorex must always be im} ctlomble 1, When ‘he first Awolls tn the secretest chamber of pa | {et new schemes of matrimony wish |to ae Ne: Ne) By. Jean Mohr. Letters {rom the People. ' from the “House Horrible: or, » How to What Would Wives Th the & Do not hesitate tors nation it is th nd tie Americ ROLLO*_ AH! WE WILL OLD YOU HOW-ITSAS | 52 AS RIES UT How COULD I eg < 7 nin knees 4 conveyance: DIP A PAIR OF if ‘That miknt dh very wel for single men. but how woul men? That circus and PAJAMAS IN 2 th0Ist: TAR ' neen at : ; MAKING. = p/AV/4 various st and Ta ; oe uiters WATERPROOF [| / trouble inore would divore aadbcallt Xo settle time, | should Le ap; Are What does observat a) (We A.CUT GLASS PUNCH BOWL FOR THE HELMET-TIE STRINGS AROUND WAIST= HANDS AND FEET TO KEER WATER OuT AND DONT FORGET THE BREATHING HOSE. 1F- YOU LIKE FRESH AIR~ to the xtraps selves on the julab fe IW. We AMUEL GRAHAM A Supgentlon, ee ueneh eit 1 read with | plea thay ine Ch DEEP SEA HUN THEN BE ENJOYED- THE SUIT 1S USEFUL TOO FOR GENTLEMEN ON THE WATER WAGON AS.IT OFFERS A CONVENIENCE \AND A DISGUISE | IN ONE. was always 1! that wit oF = American tigen: but Tive ted boiling Acc sounted For. In the Blood. used to make," Jinothor, “his father used to. talk | same way about his mother's cofte Funny Cute Opened n's mother had come to Ways talking about the | replied Charles's i) | MAKING A START IN LIFE. | ——_~. Electrical Engineer * * Chef * » Broker * * Locomotive Engineer: Salesman * ve WOULD 4% * * Plomsr Lawyer * | | ** Teacher {Designer + & * « Physician Detective Y. TO BE ?,) « « Motorman A Series of Authentic Grides to Those Who Wish to Select | Career, Giving Information Concerning Qualificatloda, \ Gpportunities, Earnings, &e.. in the Different j Trades ard Professions. By T. 0. McGill. tHE CHAUFFEUR: Chaufieur,—ii renounced Hindman, aod in t o demerit accepted As he care, repair Wages ‘Hers of Labor. — to “when y and r. but ten eixty hours ea week, te ‘the [will crowd him ¢ There ts, more 5 as), reliable chauffeurs than for anything else in the sha © from the on drivers of in the Increaaing nm the commareiat ce, te pay for n ordinary del few ccises greater than thak weclass truck to ee ssenger tran for men en- n Who wante to must eive at re a number in in some casca rises, where a foo Is chy as low as $. Among these achoola the New York School of A jeonsplcuoualy, It wan started aa a philanthrops well known men in the automobile b: ss, tht {and was turned over to a company sition as the other ‘rel work x student has to do ttn Where they aikeors stands out and R. E. Fulton, it did not thrive axa philanthropy hat charges $100 for a six-weeks' course of le ones fe equin Mike a! smait joke. A student and tec eal for and what him all he mugt learn about w sof epark plugs and carburettera, to une tools and to weld broken student has learned to do these things he tw asked to take an automobile npart and put tt together again, They have some? old types of machines that are mere piles of junk, and a man who can put-one Jot them together after tt haa been distributed over the floor will not have much trouble with a 1 or a 1%7-model. One of the Interesting things bout these schools {s the increase in women students who are or expect to be owners of cars who take what {s termed the owners’ course and the Aught at the expense of their employers indicate that | serfous side ofthe automobile question is going forward to rolution. There | to> many 1! mannered, Insolent, Ignoran acting aa chauffeurs for olther the business or the mafety of mand foc men {a so great t offers, B. itman, who is writing a compre: s this to say jhow to patch a tire with huma Ww j tha pubiic, and t that owners have to) take On this part of the subj hensive text book for ch be allowed to have charge of a car amination as to his effctency and certify as to bis standing asa Chauffeurs : Should Have Character. 4 Fishty per cent. of the automobile ‘accidents are Til ain Catiaed by: alcohol in the @river or director af the can : | “I hope the Automobile Association will be able to get a law passed at Albany to compel every man who Tuns 4 car to be practically profictent 5: that the term chauffeur implies. se st Mae td “A Wad chauffeur ts not oni a bie fa treats them, ‘A chauffeur: who runa his car in the intereet cf the tiremakers and for the? j Petty graft of his percentage (rom the repalr shop ought to be arrested, tried and Rent to fait,” ; y rn rich men took to New York for thelr chauffeurs.becayyo of the bet ter faciiitios hare for a man to gain expert knowledge of all tha edge tls requl the business. seat menace to the mfoty of the public, but he ts in disgusting the beat patrons of the Diisiiess with te way he The Christmas Present Exchangers. By Walter A. Sinclair. lee HAT can I trade for a necktie red, and what fo” a garish piper What can I change for @ swell yas range, and wchat for a nodog hotpe'? ey here can I swap this fancy fan for a couple of Dickens's works? | Where is the place I can chungc,this vase? Mercy! what shiftless clerks! &) Certainly, sir, they were all bought here, right in this very store. | Here is the tag with the price scratched, off. What can I show you more? “Where can [ change this smoking set that hubby will never use? Give me a transfer, I think PU take a pair of those nice French shocs. Here isa rattle, a bor of paints; also a small bass drum: Wouldn't that hifi with the @xtrich plume trade for, the. whole lump sum? Surely, you ought to receive this brooch. See, it's begun to fade, Yes, [U take most anything for that, merely to make a trade.” Se? ER. Ban Pity the clerks who must stand for this now that thé glad day’s past. | Pity the victims of exchange, wond'ring how long ‘twill last. || Back with thelr giits come the favored crowds, into the stores they rang \Anxfous to make each busy mart one great big Stock Exchange. Now for the Christmas trading flends, here {4 a friendly Up: Don't give them’ gifts yeu select yourself—give each a transfer slp. Pointed Paragraphs. Le ef the money that mon marry ts counte: s good Judgment usually shows up e day after, men make a specialty of posing as horrible examples, Moms people would tall short if measured by the golden rule, When words fall a woman in an argu When an Id @ sponge bath she tises a wash r Some lawy: erting poor advice into good colin. Mon wish Uiecy didn't have any harder Umes than boys think they are havi. Even an optimist ts apt to backslide when he has a boll on the back 664 hig neek, Our {dea of an Impossible man £ AC MAG resorts to tears, no who hasn't a bt of foollahness |: And whew a man bumps up agatnst hard Juck he always blames soi, other fellow for shoving tim. Most people tind fault. with thelr nelghbors In order to get ov i with nelg! dors who find fault with them. After being let In on the ground fidor of a big deal a man damalinees aes jvers that somo other chap crawled {n through tho cellar window, ite Chicago News.