It ig said that many of tho curiosity shops planted in. the, back streets of most of tho small towns'in England are kept up by largo London firms, who, from a prolonged study, of human nature, -havo discovered that people who aie shy of buying old furniture or old silver in tho West End of London , are ready and eager purchasers of precisely the samo objects at. a rather, .higher price when; they corao upon thorn, in the back streets of a country town. : . . ';. .A Kingston resident hns a flower garden containing more-' than . 400 blooms, .which ho has grown from, seed costing only id. • ... .: ~ ' ...
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 984, 26 November 1910, Page 20
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105Untitled Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 984, 26 November 1910, Page 20
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