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6 THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 12, 1920. XmagGiftProblemMadeEasy ' . . . st r, st i ' LardnerHitsonLove IvScheme ... "Wile I was going through nty desk to for ee vera Is meals . . . I come By Ring W. Ijardner To the editor: t A yr. ago at this time in responses to requests from readers without number like the Harvard football team, I give a list of economical x m a s sugestions for the wife, hus band and etc. that top ) f$rt n to Bet them and IU V ?4 5; haJf J,, fQrCe a smile when they thanked you for them or think to themselfs what a cheap, bum this guy Is. The " watch word was economy then and Its even worse than that this yr. and letters has been poreing Bp 'In my desk is 4 pieces , . aged In the wood 2 mos. yon might say and will last them all winter.". in to the writer hollering for help, the- Idear being that wile last yr. most people felt like waisting up to $.50 for each and every present, why this yr. they haven't even got a dime to throw away on same, and what is to be done in regards to same, be cause if you pass your friends and relations up entirely what a panning they -will give you. . wen inenas, me wolf ain't no closer to your door than mv door and in-fact has all ready begin to eat the door Jam and I been laying awake nights for the past mo. won dering how was I going to apease the veracity of my own family and friends and relations witch mounts up into the hundreds especially on the wife s side through no fault of mine, and finely I have hit uoon scheme witch it looks like it would solve the xmas problem without it costing me a nickle only for postaee and a few cts. , can be saved even there by sending some of the parcels F. O. B. . This scheme come to me this wk wile I was going through my desk to look" for a rat that hadn't showed up for several meals and (h little fi low wain'i-there, but I come acrost many another article that the most of them wasn't no more use to m than a towel but when I stopped to think, every one of them was things my friends and relatives couldn hardly get along without them So that is how I got the idear, namely why not give away these here ar tides as xmas presents as It is selfish to keep a hold of them like a dog in the manger when they dfnt do me no good, but would bring mas cheer into many a home.. :.v ' '. . ' ' r-; That is how the idear come to me and the same scheme will no doubt ' work for the readers of this letter as no doubt all of them has rot desk or. trunk or something where they been, parking articles thai may look for a rat that hadn't showed up acrost many another article. . of -been useful when they got them. but is now just takeing up xm. that could be used for something you want t to keep like for insti. a cork screw. And wile of. coarse my read ers may be entirely different than me both in regards to the articles they got stowed away as well as the needs of the in-laws and etc. that expects presents, why may be if I give a outline of the articles I am going to give and a few wds. In re gards to the folks who X intend to make happy on reciept of same, maybe my readers will get a better idear of how the scheme works out. Well for Inst. 2 of the articles I found is the souvenir score books of the Yale-Princeton game and the Tale-Harvard game played last mo -5W Well, the one I bought atTrinceton was $.50 and the one I bought at New Haven was $.35 or a grand total of $.85 so they can't' nobody say I didn't loosen up for them. Well I have got a brother-in-law at Bos ton that will - probably take in the xaie-uarvara game next yr. and a brother in Hartford witch is only a step from New Haven, you might say, and he is all ready planing to take in the Yale-Princeton fiasco, so I can't think of nothing that would tickle them as much as to each get one of these score books especially as the space in them where you put down Yale's score is just as good as new. 2 of my other brother-in-laws lives in old Chi, one of them on the south side and the other out in Evanston, and here Is the way I am going to fix them up. The one that lives in Evanston gets off at Main St. witch is the same station where I use to get Off when I lived there In 191? and amongst my belongings I have ran acrost a ?. and N. W. suburb time table from Chi to Main St and vice versa and they's no reason to beleive the schedule should of changed but very little in that length of time, so what is the matter with me giveing my Evanston brother in law this cunning time table as it happens lots of times that a man liveing In the suburbs can't find his own time table and even if he has got one you can't never have too many of them in the house. My brother-in law that lives on the south side is a bird that is cuckoo about music shows and its a good bet that he will see the Night Float wile it's in Chi and as luck would have it I saved the programm from this show when 1 seen it in N. Y. and they tell me it's the same cast you might say, and how many times have you went in late to the theater and the girlish usher tell you they was all out of programmes and you are like a chicken with its tongue out, and this is what is libel to happen to my brother-in-law and wne, dm ii ne nas got this pro gramme in his pocket he can give the usher the horse laugh as she de serves. So that is what my brother in law on the south side of Chi is going to find in his old sock xmas morning ie the programme.' Another "brother-in-law I got lives' down in Indiana and often goes up to old Chi to get the air and sometimes when he wants to stay over night, why maybe the people 'that would put him' up has all ready got too darn much Co. and half to send him to a hotel. Well I am going to mail this bird the key to Room 1014 at the Morrison hotel in Chi and then he can jump right In the elevator and go to his rm. without monkey ing around no fresh clerk's desk or tipping a bell boy to carry his other collar and night gown. One of my other inumerable brother-in-laws Is a engineer in Detroit and a golf nut and kind of absent minded and they's no telling when be will find himself on the 1st green and. find out he has forgot a score curd, so I am going to send this guy a elegant blank score card that I got out to the Engineers golf club here on Longs Island and it will tickle him on acct. of coroeing from a Engineers club and it will also give him just as good service as one of - m. his own club's, cards as they all got the same No. of holes to mark down and columns wide enough to acomo- date 2 figures. My Indianapolis' brother-in-law is just taking up golf, and he is one of these kind of birds that always goes into everything from the bottoms up and no doubt has often wondered what the in sides of a golf ball looks like so I am going to send him one that I tried to put a back spin on it with a mashie. Lack of space prevents me numer ateing' the articles I am going to give ray other brother-in-laws and sister-in-laws and etc; as well as friends that don't boast no relation ship, but it wouldn't be right to leave out those little devils who a man "is most inter ested In at "xmas time namely the wife and kiddies. The wife is now in the throws of furnishing the heavily mortgaged home and has become 'a greai collector of curios and I have found just the thing -for 'her in the way of rare old prints, namely ' a re ceipted bill for 102 gals, of gas at 11 cts. per gal i witch was' handed dowri by my great grandfather through 6 or 7 generations till it finely got paid! ! As for the kiddies.Js they anything in the world that brings the smiles to their mush like candy? And in my desk is 4 pieces out of a box I, bought on the train In Cleveland just after the world serious, aged in the wood 2 mos. you might say and will hist them all winter, This will give my readers a idear of how I am going to handle the xmas problem, this yr. and they can do the. same if they will just go through their trunk or desk and dig out what might be white elephants to them, but blue zebras to their kith and kin.. : RINO W. 1ARDNER; Long"B Island, December 10. (CopyrUht1920. by th. Bell Syndicate. Inc.) Haiti now has a well organised motor postal service. . Stolen Cars Portland's crime wave is still too foam-crested for the police department to see the following automobiles, which have , been pilfered during the past months from their owners tender care S Key 2B1, Cherole,t 120 tourwc. Orou 25120, motor OS 18. , Key 512, Dodge, 1820 touring. Orrcoa 948B2. motor QS115S. , . Key . fode. 1920 touring. Oregon 7S969. motor 491630. Key 484, Dodge. 1920 touring, Oregon M795, motor 628689. , Key 325. Dodge, 1920 touring. Oregon 82998. motor 6048. Key 485, Dodge, 1920 touring, Orrgim K745A, motor 821 129 ' Key 4(9. Dodge. 1920 touring. Wellington 1UA3, motor 004021. ..... Key 2.1H. Dodge. 1918 touring. Oregon 31878. motor 89905. Key 258. Ford. 1920. touring. VJiinUn 41824, motor S358flut. . ! . ':. , Key 6ft2. Ftord. 1920 touring. Oregon T02 Wi motor 4023187. ? T Key 64S. Frrd, 1918 .touring. Oregon 21311. motor 1084257. . Key 62, Ford, 1917 touring. Or eon 720rt0. motor 1952046 Key 59. Ford, 1920 coupe, Oregon 02823. motor 4047888. Key 489, Ford, 1920 touring. Oregon 72135. motor 8725043. I Key 443. Ford, 1918 truck, Oregon 84994. motor 1444W. - Key 278. Ford. 1919 roadster, "Oregon 1537. motor 8218814. J Key 829. Koed. 1919 touring, Oregon 20148, motor 8042796. - CARELESS BUYING ONE CAUSE IP HIGH COSTS Not Enough Attention Given to Merit of Merchandise There i too -much laxity in buy ing: methods. Still people complain of high priceswhen, in reality, careless spending is instrumental in keeping up costs. j Not enough at tention is given to the actual value of merchandise. f For example: a housewife goes in to a grocery-store. She orders a can of this a pound of that a peck or a package of something else. She looks ypon high prices as a condi tion over which she has little or no control. ' : All too often she entertains the perverted notion that a price-tag is a badge of quality that high priced goods are naturally the most mer itorious. She has lost the true per spective of worth in the jumble of high costs and judges 'by what she gives more than by what she gets. It is a grievous error and a pre dominating cause of high prices.' Ev ery buyer of foodstuffs and all other kinds of merchandise should consul er QUALITY first. If an article that retails at a moderate price will answer your purpose as well or bet ter than one that sells at exorbitant figures, favor the lower priced item by all 'means. . QUALITY THE ONLY TEST OF VALUE Should Be Baying Gaide for Every Housewife This doesn't Imply that all goods old at a moderate price possess de irable merit. Poor merchandise at tny prico always proves expensive. Qoalky alone is the only , test of value and should be the buying guide of every housewife. High-priced commodities that are sot worth the prices at which they are quoted are sold because there is a demand for them. The grocer must fcandle them because his trade insists on having' them. The grocer is not to blame. He hesitates to offer bay ing suggestions to customers be cause so many persons view such ad vice as an outright insult to their fcuying intelligence. " The conscientious grocer and the tinge majority of grocers are of that tripe is eager to save money for his customers willing and able to $ give them intelligent and helpful ad vice along the lines of economical buying. But the customer most dis play a willingness to be advised. There should be a clearer under standing between the retailer and the consumer a finer cpirit of co-operation. The grocer is dependent upon the consumer. His interests lie par allel with those of .his trade. He carries food products of greatest ex cellence produced by manufacturers who permit retail sales to be made at legitimate figures. ENCOURAGE SALE OF SOUND QUALITY GOODS i. ui a u"j - T ... teg public should encourage the gro cer to push quality merchandise that sells at an economical price. . This ' :ti a t.miMi' rrv whin - no production7 of goods of sound merit and fair prices at the same tame H.Nu.nn'ni tho mAmi fctnrc sale and use of products that represent extravagance-and waste. There should be no mistake about this matter of economy, ine nousc -x u wita "ivttitnM with lack -WUC WU wa f " .. 1 ets" to prevent waste of peehngs i who saves ner lert-over wur--, I am sure, defeat her splendid inten tions many tunes over Dy unwise iuj ing. Proper selection of foods is the first st towards reduction of food prices. ; - " . t 1 -voU; itrtar the imoortant things for the housewife to remem ber, practice and preach ret . do buy food products that can be du plicated at a saving of cash and a Kain in quality; investigate the food . -value of an article; dont accept high prices as final proof of high quality; do not accuse the dealer of holding up prices when you deliberately per sist in buying goods for which he must pay high prices. Florence King. President National Woman's Association of CommerceC s W gS Contains only such in gredients as have been officially approved by the United States Food Authorities. " I s t h e la rg e st se lling brand of baking powder known. 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