Bluefield Evening Leader

"CONTENT-HUNTERS" IN CONFERENCE.

Solon believed that "if all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own again rather than take a portion out of the common stock."

It would be a strange sight—a Misery Fair! And while the old philosopher was right, and we would be glad to each reclaim his own exhibit at the end, such a fair would bring us a thousand years nearer to the Age of Content and the Day of Steady Nerves!

And while such a Fair is not quite feasible we have nowadays something nearly as interesting—and nearly as useful—in the daily "coming together in one place" of the people who have wants and wishes and quests. The ad. pages of a newspaper constitute the "coming together" places for people who do find it profitable to "take a portion out of the common stock" in exchange for something donated thereto.

These ad. pages are the nearest approach we have to a Congress of Content-Hunters—a conference of people who have too much of this and too little of that—a marketplace where Give and Take is the slogan, and where things are equalized and balanced and adjusted in the "Clearing House for Small Things."

The person who misses the fullest service this Clearing House can render is missing one of the most interesting phases of modern life—missing many a small profit, many a satisfying trade, many a tryst with opportunity.