| Show mans ingenuity taxed to meet emergencies some of the adjustments made ani and the devices treated created to keep business moving in 0 ving during money crises in foreign n countries are outlined in a bulletin from the washington headquarters of the national geographic society in most cases it la Is pointed out the emergencies arose from causes entirely different from those operating in the united states at present often the foreign crises followed the sudden fall in value odthe of the monetary units or resulted from steady inflation in france following the world war says the bulletin tile the need for small change was 66 so great that thousands of merchants frappe wrapped a postage stamps in wax paper and used the packages as small change the average client did not bother to open the paper but took it for granted that there were four 25 centamo stamps in the transparent packet handed to him in lieu of a franc and in turn passed it on when he needed to make change both in france and in austria local chain chambers bers of commerce and boards of trade issued small colit like tokens as well as small paper notes like cigarette coupons the contents of travelers pockets became loose leaf gazetteers of the cities along their routes in the russian caucasus region following the october revolution small email bills were in great demand and money changers set up business charging twenty rubles and more for changing thousand ruble n notes otes in chinn china where different prices obtain in big money and little mon ey 1 small change Is always a nuts nuis abee the value of each coin fluctuates but one must carry ten or fifteen pounds of square holed cash as change for one gold dollar they are strung on cords of them being counted as a thousand the oth er H 20 being a fee for counting the pieces and stringing them |
