What A Good Knife Costs

"More men pay $3 and upward for a pocketknife than less. That may not the experience of all cutlery dealers, trut that's the kind of trade we cater to, " said a kuïfe expert f rom behind K.e cuuuter of a store on ono of the rnost fieqnented of down town Btreets. ■'Spaniards spend the most money for knives, ' ' he continued. ' ' Spaniards who 2ome here are very fastidious in the matter of cutlery anyway. Where an American family in the same circumstances will be content with the ordinary plated tableware, costing $4 or $4.50 a dozen, a Spaniard will have nothiug bnt the finest steel with ivory handles, at 18 and over. The average business man spendfi asually about $3 for a four bladed knife. If he loses a knife ofteu, as rnany men do, he comes down to $2, then to $1. Most expensive knives are bought for presente Four dollars buys an excellent gift. Last season many knives were given for prizes at encher parties. Such knives were usually the fancy ones, with half a dozen blades or attachments. That big 7 inch knife there is a hun ter 'a knife. It costs $4. "A man who buys that will take it to the Adirondacks, and when he leaves there present it to bis guide. We have one customer who buys three of those knives every year. He gives them to his guides, he says. We sell nearly 150 of them every year. This heavy one here with a big steel hook is a horseman 's knife. It costs $7. The hook is used for digging out a stone f rom the horse's hoof. It has, as you see, other attachments, such as a corkscrew, screwdriver, nut cracker, awl, gimlet and a score of things for other useful or useless purposes, aceordiug to the point of view. We sell many of them, probably more than any other one kind. Sailors usually buy pretty good knives. They and Italians go in for big, sharp knives that should be haudy in case of defense. Pretty nearly every trade has a peculiar knife. That's one reason why a wTell equipped cutlery shop makes such a formidable display. Knives cost all the way from 50 cents to25. Wedon'tsell manv at the latter price. "