THE BARGAIN COUNTER
Braley, Berton
The Bargain Counter By BERTON BRALEY in "The Day Book" Bargains in dress goods and bargains in lace, Bargains in garments of beauty and grace, Here are the offerings' piled in a heap, Bargains on...
...Look at that exquisite waist—it was made Down in the slums by a woman ill paid...
...Euripides...
...Wait, let's see whence these bargain goods came E'er we plunge into the bargaining game...
...THE SIMPLE, nameless herd of humanity have deeds and faith that are truth enough for me.—Euripedes...
...Glorious plume for a wonderful hat?— Little child hands gave the beauty to that...
...Bargain sale...
...Bargains in hate and oppression and greed, Bargains in hearts that must suffer and bleed, Bargains from sweat-shops and pestilent holes, Bargains in labor and bargains in souls, Here on the counter together they lie...
...Come on and buy...
...THERE IS but this difference between labor and idleness: That labor is a profitable and pleasant trouble, idleness a trouble both unprofitable and comfortable.—Joseph Hill...
...THINGS which have had an existence among men have first of all had to have a truth and worth in them, and were not semblances, but realities.—Carlyle...
...hurled this way or that...
...Or else the multitude hath hold of him...
...or laws of brass or wood constrain and will not let him use the soul within him...
...THERE is no free man in all this worlds slaves of possessions, slaves of fortune all...
...The Bargain Counter By BERTON BRALEY in "The Day Book" Bargains in dress goods and bargains in lace, Bargains in garments of beauty and grace, Here are the offerings' piled in a heap, Bargains on bargains—remarkably cheap...
...Bargain sale...
...Why, they're bargains in pain, Bargains in bodies and bargains in brain, Bargains in manhood and womanhood, too, Bargains in childhood here offered to you...
...Bargains in goods...
Vol. 5 • July 1913 • No. 27
