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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 407, 25 February 1904, Page 7

j cotton-backed velvets and damaged mus r ] lips, preserves a dieoreet sUeaoa regaiSißghiß own economical experiences. *' -•' ' * TKBUTY, DbABS' ; ,;i ; ,. Some people are: more thorough-going bargain-hustersjihan.atherd, Everything' • they possess has a hifltory., niture has been op afe odd in out-of-the-way streets. Their clothing 1 has been procured wholesale, or ? through friends,' or in any way, except the ordinary one. J£o purchaseJiangs in the* usual manner is an abhorenfldea;to. them,] and thay rather despise the people w&iy are content to obtain their goods in this easy fashion. Their conversation is generally a celebration of the tjophiesof their industry and experience. 'Just -feel Ijhis ,silk. you. will- never believe how ' cheaply I bought it.' A letter from a ! . correspondent sets forth the experience of | a man blessed (?)jwith a bargain-Hunting wife, add his complaints find an echo in; mary minds. He discovers that he is being gradually turned out of his house by the[accumulation of objects his 'thrifty dear* insists on ■ purchasing because 'they? are cheap.. Every bedstead in »tbe houseis supplied with two or three feather they have fenders beyond their number of grates; every vacant corner is choked with lumber, and yet the lady buys oh! Provisions are laid in after the same fashion, and the family live on stale and spoilt food which has b :ea kept till nearly useless. A Histobic Babgain-Hunteb, There is a pleasing excitement, a kind of miid gambling, in the idea of, as it *rere, turning the tables on our tradesmen, aud making a profit out of them, instead of theyt out.,- of us; but the only person we ever heard of who prepared as a bargain-hunter was the man who bought the Charing Cross statue of Caarles I. in the days of the Commonwealth. This shrewd individual, John Bivet byname, quietly buried the obnoxious image (which the Parliament had Sold him cheaply on the condition that he destroyed it), and for some, years lived comfortably by selling pieces of old iron to the Boyalisfcsas' 'relies' of the statue. At the Bsstoration he dug it up, and sold it again to the Government, who replaced it where it now stands, This was certainly what our American "cousins would term an ' allrouad good puos of business;' but John Rivet was exceptionally fortunate. ADVJBRTISEES A story is told of an American firai who" added 'comfortable coffins' to their list of funeral »ttractions, Bat it was an Enggliah auctioneer who felt obliged to mention fche drawbacks of an estate he was selling—namely, the 'litter made by the falling rose leaves, and the noise of the nightingales!' That man had a. vein of poetry in his nature. - - j