Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-02-02

spacious salon is devoted to ball and lecture
room purposes, where balls. concerts and en-.
tertainments are given.
IL Is obvious. therefore that the enterprise
must De on very large scale or be capable Of
being worked up to vast proportions. Ia Lon.
don one general manager has entire control.
To him are referred any complaints or sugges-
tions by subscribing customers, and it + he
who personally sifts every Indication of fault
or abuse to the bottom and authorizes any
change. IL is said that in this country we have
got SO tnat we pay twenty five cents to secure
the honest transmission of every fifty cents we
make, if it is only across from counter to desk:
and this Is very nearly true.
The London Dress Association employs
a different and Tess costly system of checks,
and It is proposed to adopt their system
here. II begins by trusting its employees
until some evidence Of untrustwofth
mess Is d scovered Then the case Is
instantly and closely sifted and prompt dis
charge follows detection. Help is found in the
tact that customers are always stockholders,
and usually permanent and report at once
instances Of inattention. failures or shortcom-
ngs or any kind An important and most
welcome foSture viii be proper classification
and exact prices This to a considerable ex-
tent Is ault of large New York stores to.
day. Goods are not graded, or the secondary
class of garments defined with any clearness
In London you know exactly the sort Of bon
net you can get for guinea, and you
or Just such style for just such
price. Here is matter Of
caprice. Prices are attached as a matter OF
whim moIe tn IN from the cost of labor and
material. and it is believed that 3 certain arti-
Gle will stand more, if it is ofIen put on,
whether il IL intrinSically worth the price asked
or not. Doubtless there are cases also where
pi ices are lowered, so as TO make them reason
able and even Cheap but this cannot be
relied upon, nor can the quality be relied upon
except at the high pIice of an establishments
which has a first class reputation to sustain.
The prospectus of the association, shortly to
be iSsned to stockholders by Mr.. Anthony Put
brock, states that In London ''the Civil Service
supply Association (limitedl has, ia addition to
paying regular dividends, with capital Of only
l,0Oe, created q surplus profit fund eqnal to
81, ,Oc0, nd its S. shares are quoted at 1875
Another the Civil Service Co-operative Socie-
ty (iimited), has had its capital increased from
10000 to $685., ,009 10y the transfer of cash from
the surplus pTofitS, paid in addition TO paying
Sl2l lUUO for premises and fittings, out of profits
and Its stock IS at a similar high premium. The
Army and Navy Cooperative Society 0imited)
established still later, has shown an average
increase of business of Sl,00O,eC0 per annunn.
and Its last meeting credited each s. share with
4 ooaus OF ,. 90. The Ladies Dress Associa-
oia tillniteD has in two years near
iy doubled its members. The four societies
have between them 100000 members These
figures are so astounding as to be almost be-
yond belief. They are verified by official re-
port, which can be seen at the offices Of the
associations The principle of these societies
IS so simp as to cispel all doubt as to the
cause OF their wonderful success. It consists
which the business is carried on, and cash
payments. great deal of the business in
London IS done BY correspondence, strict price
lists being furnished to members, also designs
or garments and costumes. The London fea-
lure OF what is called the Ladies Club, /" will
be repeated here, viz rooms for lunch, read
ing and correspondence certain boon to
ladies living at a distance, and who do not al
ways find it possible or best to 20 to the
house of a frierd.
THE BLESSING OF sLEEP
Everybody who has ever lived in the country
knows what multEm in parvo is the country
store, ard what an advat ce upon it was the
specialized store of twenty-five years ago.
which only dealt in one class of goods was
considered. The late A r. Stewart was the
first New York merchant to enlarge upon the
original idea, until it became his boast that not
only one lady, bug an entire family, could be
supplied with everything needful, except pro-
visions, without leaving his premises Ali the
large dry goods establishments have since
followed his lead, but Lord & Taylor seem to
have recently won the palm for origi-
nality IN their enterprise. In their fur
nlShlng department. | TIE other Gay
what is called au hypnotic" or sleep
producing pillow. 1t was very fragrant with
herbs, and was tod it was the invention of a
scientific physician who believes in remedial
action by absorption and inhalation. If pil-
low can really be made that will allay pain
and quiet restless nerves 80 as to induce Sleep
it will OF itself go long way in the cure of
disease, and, by Kidding us to some extent of
drugs, would be blessing indeed.
JENNY JUNE.