Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-08-06 | Page 7 | Take Pleasure in Haggling

TAKE PLEASURE IN HAGGLING Tibetans Will Not Be Denied the Joys That Accrue From the Sense of Bargaining. "Mornin' time, bargain time!" calls out one of the peddlers by the wayside way-side in Tibet cheerfully as he sees you returning from a glimpse of the snows at sunrise. You bid him come to you, and from one of the innumerable innumer-able pockets concealed in his voluminous volu-minous robe he will produce a perfect little Jade eup, or a Tibetan coffee pot or gold, copper and precious stones, or perhaps a huge lump of rough turquoise hewn to look like a couch with a tiny gold Buddha reclining reclin-ing on it. Then comes the bargaining, in which he and all his friends take part against your single Belf. , It can all be done by signs and smiles and patience and in the long run you will get some things well worth having at a very reasonable price. But you must have no false pride about bargaining. It is an elementary part of these people's nature, and the Joy of selling will leave them forever when the day of haggling is done.