OCR Text |
Show MONEY THAT WOULDN'T GO. Cleanliness a Positive Business Draw-hack Draw-hack in Some Cases. (Detroit Free Press.) "You would net believe that cleanliness cleanli-ness could be a positive business drawback, draw-back, would you?" asked a man in a Detroit bank. "I had tot come in here just now to get rid of some clean money 'filthy lucre' is the only popular popu-lar variety. Yesterday I had a pocketful pocket-ful of silver money, mostly dollars, and, looking, them over, I decided that they were too soiled to be pleasant; so in the evening at home my wife got out her ammonia bottle and we rubbed and polished. them all to a bright and beautiful beau-tiful condition. I gave some to her and put the rest back into my own pocket. I "Well, sir, during- the day we' both had the same experience with that clean money. The butcher and the baker objected to taking it from my I wife. They said it might be all right, but it looked too bright to suit them it ; looked exactly like counterfeit money. She explained that we had cleaned the dollars with' ammonia, but, as they still seemed dubious about accepting ac-cepting the shining metal, she paid her bills with paper dollars and came home very indignant. "On the street car the conductor to whom I gave a br.'sht dollar tendered it back to me, saying . had to be very particular, and didn't like the looks of the coin. I had forgotten that it had been cleaned, but I found a soiled half I dollar In my pocket, which he briskly j accepted and changed for me. At the I cigar shop the young man looked at i my new dollar, rang it on the counter 'and said it sounded all right, but that ' the boss would take it out of his pay if ! it wasn't good, so he-guessed I'd better keep. it. The ticket man atthe'v-car ! station served me. the same way, and I had to hunt up a dingy quarter for him. ! - You don't wonder that I had to 1 come to the bank to unload that; clean money, do, 'you? . Bright' coin won't al-! al-! ways pass;, in ; .this commercial world; it looks too good to be true." |