Some reader has kindly sent us a cutting from the "Claremont Monthly" entitled "A Capitalist on Threepence,"' which certainly deserves attention How one of our Club Girls was able to raise the respectable sum of £2 19s. 1d. with the small capital of threepence to help the fund, was told at our recent Bazaar.
With twopence she bought sufficient cocoa to prepare 14 cups of cocoa. The remaining penny was used for the gas wherewith to boil it. She retailed the steaming beverage at one penny per cup te her shop mates. The girls, entering into the spirit of the thing, contentedly drank it without milk or sugar. They agreed "it was wet and warm, anyway.""
The young business women had now one-and-twopence. This she turned into 42 cups of cocoa with milk and sugar, which realized 3s. 6d. She continued to buy in proportion as her ¢ales increased. She must have persuaded those girls to drink an awful lot of cocoa! But in six weeks, from that thrifty threepence as her fortune, Mrs. Louie Cross was able to hand over to Claremont the nice little sum of £2 19s. 1d.
OF course we do not know how much ought to be debited to profits for labour, plant, crockery, breakages, income tax, excess profits tax, insurance, freight and atler overhead charges. But the succuss of this young lady contains a tip for business men in Shanghai of which they may be glad in these hard times. The worst of it is that so many of us don't care about cocoa.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.