RE-ENTER: THE SOVEREIGN AND PAWNBROKER

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 8, 4 October 1919, Page 11

RE-ENTER: THE SOVEREIGN AND PAWNBROKER

WITH DWINDLING OF WAR PROS. PERITY.

"War prosperity is dwindling in the poorer quarters of London, where there is no longer a. .boom iii 'Bradburys.' ■Tradesmen report the reappearance of the which merins the empty-, ing of the stocking and the sayinga.-box, the release of gold hoarded in. the earlier davs of the war by people whose only sense of, financial security was-the possession of the precious metal," says .the "Mail." Pawnbrokers, too. are finding more and regular customers, wlio n.re for the most part pledging expensive jewellery acquired in the golden age of war work and war wages. In some northern towns pawnbrokers are displaying notices: "No more pledges taken." The casual labourer, the pavement artist, the cab tout, and,the streetcorner men are returning to their old haunts. . The' street beggar 3 who vanished .when there was easy money for everyono are back with the wailing voice •and the cupped hand, and tho agony of the street musician" is lieard, in the land.