Connecticut western news., 1879-04-30

The uhwisdom Chat seems to be a fashionable word now and one might as we'll be out the world as out the fashion, you now)-ths unwisdom of not advertis- ing was strikingly illustrated the other day. We happened at Lakeville and found we had half hour on eur hands before train tune, 30 we looked around for some means to kill time. Nearly opposite we saw store with very modest looking sign beal- ing this modest device, "Stovos. Tin Ware, Sc." We thought we would take look inside for want of something else to do. ex prctiDg to find a few stoves end a small amount of tin ware, such as is found in an ordinary country store. What was our surprise then to find no, one room but room after ro0m-in fact a great BAzAR-stocked from cellar to garret win every concciv- able thing almost that Yankee Ingenuity has Deen able to devise, with all the latest i'm provements. The fist room contained an immense stock of stoves of every pattern known to the trade, including the splendid New Empress Range" while on one side were long rows of show cases and shelves, containing everything from a silver tea set .nd an OrmO.u clock down 10 a chinese doll which reseEb bled Ben. Butler some. and which we brought home with us to amuse rising and promising future Editor of THE NEws. Another large room was filled with hardware, including everything almost that farmer, mechanic or anybody else could think of or need. In still another room on the first floor we found hands at work mak- ing mattresses, upholstering chairs. lounges etc., making tin ware, repairing clSihee wrngers, saving brackets, framing pictures and indeed doing almost everything tha, jack-of-aIl-trades can do. On the second floor was an immense loft filled with furnl- ture of every style and every price. We were shown black walnut set for-well, the price was se low we are afraid to give it for fear it might tffect our character fOi veracity. At one end of this floor was a c, r. pet room neatly fitted up.contsining roll al. terroll of carpets o: the be 8, quality and pret- jest designs. We were shewn a very pret- ty ingrain for 50 cents per yard,
 
 Now We of course knew that Cornell & Hoyt kept handsome store at Lakeville. out We had not the ighlest idea that tLeiI | stock Was so extensive and of such Ysri- ety, snd we dare to say that there are sr"les of persons not a hundred Mik from them who share our ignorance. Why is i, ? Simply btcause-well because they are too 1 modest to advertise their own ware. What | folly-how penny wise and pound foolish it IS for tuslness men to lay in large and costly stock of goods and then hide tbeir talents in napkin, as it w re, instead of letting their light shine through columns of genel Sus advertisements. This is a duty which they owe not only to tn. msrlv+s, but to others. both as individuals and as communities. Let US suppose a case y couple wish to go to house keeping, and ts' purchase an cuff, consisting ot Course of h great variety of articles, Well they look through the papers to zee if they can find 5 place near home 10 make their purchases. They can find none in the papers, so the eHly attenuation is for them to go 10 some city. The fare amounts to considerable, and when they get there they don't know where to go te. and run around tuvlng one thing here and another there, and before they get half through the list, night comes on, and they find themselves completely tuckered out and Exhausted, and come home soured and disgusted. perhaps wish ing they had never got married Now it they had found in the papers some such place for instance ss Cornell & Hoyt's, they could have taken the l2:40 train, made all thslr purchases, returned on the 8 o'clock train with their goods feeling fresh. happy. and contented, and before bedtime they could have put down their carpets, set up their stoves and bedsieads, and put everything in apple pie order ant. launched their little domestic bark on 'rhe full tide of successful experiment"-S-+ And then again the busint ss men of place owe a duty to that place, and whst Can te of greater advantage to place than to show to the world that it has some enterprise and life and epirit, and in what better way can that be shown than bv advertising. The character of place m fact is shown in the acvertispmeRts of it's business men. Let these be on proper scale and they will at tract attention ahh capital and busin' ss
 and the place will soon begin 10 grow but let it's business men fisl their stores and then shut the doors and blinds. as It were, hy not advertising, and enter prise and capital srd ipsiness, as il ih re- buke of such smalness, II soon let the place alone and will write upon it's walls, ''l> >hahnd, it is finished and f. .nct q h."