| Show IT PAYS TO BUYAT HOME its a funny thing boutwe but we poor human beings are continually conti mully imagining that something better lies just beyond our reach and so many times we fall fail to see the great benefits just under our noses this failing is manifest in people in different ways but we are arc all more or less afflicted with it some people imagine they can save money by sending away from froin this community every year and because of 01 that imagination a great many dollars are sent away from home every year to help build up institutions that have no more interest in our affairs than anything in the world orld aside from getting our dollars A splendid example was furnished on peach day in ili the experience 0 of a lady from ogden in looking over the stock ot of one of out our local stores I 1 that tile the home merchant can give ills his patrons a better price than the outside concerns this lady in question was attracted to one of our furniture stores by a range demonstration which was being given I 1 As she sat at one of the little tables drishing drin hing a cup ot of and eating a warm biscuit her eye fell upon a hoosier kitchen cabinet net the lady is just fitting up her home in ogden and she had in mind to get a hoosier kitchen cabinet so she asked the price when Nr llen told she was astounded and stated that the price was much cheaper than the 0 ogden furniture houses quote for that particular make the lady asked to bo be shown through the store she bile priced rugs and found a difference ol of fifteen dollars in favor of the brigham city firm on a wilton rug 0 of a certain weight on a seeley mattress tile the local firm quoted a price four and a halt half dollars less on oil a brass bed the brigham price was nearly 20 less than the ogden price and the rates the local merchant quoted were his regular prices the good lady from ogden figured up the bill and found that she could save fifty to seventy five dollars on her bill of furniture by buy ing ng in brigham so she told the mer chant that she would send him a bill of goods the day following which she did and the sale amounted to over one hundred and fifty dollars now this is tile the experience of but one of our furniture houses and Is an index to what hat can be done in all other lines of trade it simply means that people who have an idea they can do better trading out of town have evidently not consulted their home merchants to got get theli their prices another veople who have the habit of trading out of town forget they have to pay cash for everything they buy from the foreign merchant which Is not always the case care in trading at home blany more can be adduced proving that it pays every time t to buy at home many reasons of a moral character as well as financial and we all ought to think of these things a little more seriously |
