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Show DIRTY MONEY. There Is a good deal of complaint nbout the condition ot paper money It Is remarked that tho bills are unusually un-usually dirty and a possible menaco to health. Certainly there nre some of us who feel that fresh clean notes are less common than they used to be though Just as much currency may hnvo passed through our hands. To cleanly people, a soiled bank note bearing the accretions of a thousand thou-sand hands, has Its unpleasant suggestions, sug-gestions, notwithstanding Its perfectly perfect-ly good purchasing power. One feels doubly rich with a llttlo roll of new notes, even If they are of the smallest small-est denomination. People who like clean monoy have ono recourse always open. That Is to cultivate the use of gold. To this the objection Is felt that the shiny coins are easily lost. Also they aro occasionally occas-ionally mistaken for bright Lincoln cents, or In the dark tor nlckles. Yet tho pcoplo of Kuropo uso gold very freely and llko it. They loam from youth to carry It In separate purses, and probably do not lose as much ot It ns our careless people. The yellow coins have a most musical music-al Jingle. One feels like a lord with a small number of them in his pocket. pock-et. Hut the use of paper notes has bo-come bo-come an Ingrained habit of our pcoplo. pco-plo. That being so, tho government (.Mould keep them clean. It seems rather ra-ther absurd to spend millions In health department work, while permitting per-mitting dirtv nnd germ carrying bills to circulate freely ns they do. Hanks nnd stores that make a practico of giving out ns much clean raonoy as , posslblo make themselves popular nmong peoplo who dlsllko dirt. |
