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Show MAIL ORDER PURCHASES ARE ANYTHING BUT ECONOMICAL. Logan's Republican thinks that the person who buys from distant mail order houses, rather ' than patronize stores near home, overlooks certain cer-tain items of expense that he has to pay for in buying from catalogues. Usually nn extrn transportation trans-portation charge has to be paid in buying of the mail order house. If you buy of your home dealer, who buys of the manufacturer, there is but one freight charge to pay, from the factory to the store. But if you buy of the mail order house, tho goods must be transported to the mail order wnrerooms, nnd then shipped ngnln from tho mall order lioiwe to you. Thnt makes also two extra clmrges for storage to be paid, and often for packing nnd unpacking. Furthermore, sending individual articles n long distance is the most costly wny of shipping them. When the home dealer buys them, he orders or-ders n lot to come In one shipment, which makes tho transportation charges for each article a very small item. If you pay to have It sent individually individu-ally either by express or pnrcel post from n dls-tnnt dls-tnnt place much more must bo paid. If the mail order price seems cheap it is usually because a second grade article is being sold. It looks very handsome In the catalogue cut, which reveals no defects. But you would not buy it in a store. If you would give the home merchant a chance, ho would tell you that he could sell the same article ar-ticle for as low a price or probably lower. But he would not want to do It, because It would not give satisfaction and tho sale of second-class goods would hurt his business reputation. Even if articles nre sent by postage or express paid, the consumer pays these charges indirectly by getting tho poorer quality, It is a case of going farther and faring worse. |