BUYING CHEAP THINGS.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1167, 14 April 1874, Page 3

BUYING CHEAP THINGS.

[WEEKLY TRIBTjXE.] Only the rich can afford to buy poor articles. Solomon says " the destruction of the poor is their poverty," and thus it comes about: In the matter of shoes, for example a poor man thinks he cannot afford to pay Gdol. for a pair of good shoes, so he buys atodols., and in three months he must buy again ; four pairs a year amount to lL'dols., whereas the Gdol. pair, made to order, with a fresh sole, perhaps, would have lasted a twelvemonth. Just so in muslins. The hardworking farmer's wife will purchase muslin at 12 or 15 cents a yard, when by giving 20 or 22 she would get a fabric that would wear a third longer and give double the satisfaction, besides making immense saving in stitches. In dress goods the same rule applies unless one intends to buy at every change of style and variety. When we buy a dress the purchase is for a lifetime, and always of the best quality, not the most expensive, but such as will wear and look well as long as a thread is left. If one can't afford to buy tho best, let her go without and save up till she can ; then when sho does buy she will have what will suit her. It is because so many house-keepers buy poor calicoes, poor muslins, table linen of inferior quality, cheap cloths for suits, that they are always burred to death with sowing. Children's clothes wear out so fast that they must evermore be making' new, whereas if the fabric, in the first place, is of excellent quality and well made up, it will last

two or three children and look well all the timo. . " Won't you buy some stocking-', real nice, only " thirteen cents a pair?" said a podler at the door the other day. " I never dream of paying less than .half a dollar," was the prompt reply. Just to thiuk of darning thirteen cent stockings! A real good pair of stockings will need scarcely any darning for a year, will wear two or throo years, and then cut over nicely for the children. Is there any economy in buying cheap stockings ? Only the rich can afford to buy poor articles.