Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-12-26

The Flying Buckeye-
Significance of the
Number va
rious Other
Items.
Another Christmas has come and gone
(This remark Is warranted original, an,
will be patented.) Last Tuesday was tn
shortest day. The days are now growinI
longer. Next Saturday will usher in tn
young 1887. If some of US could see TN
events which the new year has in his haver
sack we would probably be in lively stat
of excitement The Christmas weathe
last week was perfect-perfectly dreadful
Not many years ago We had in Spring
field so mild and sunny a Christmas tha
people were playing croquet on the lawns
the ladies in lawn dresses. Unreasonabl!
warm or rainy weather always seems t.
put damper on Christmas, besides max
ing a fat kirk-yard," according to the
popular saying. Good, cold, snowy weather
always seems TO freeze open the
public purse so that it cannot
be closed until sufficient fund:
have escaped to make several people happy
at least Cold, bracing weather alway:
makes the Christmas fires, and the Christ
mas excitement burn brighter The amount
of goods sold during the past week was
enormous and represents the largest Christ.
mas trade ever done during the holidays in
/ the city of Springfield. The stores were
crowded like the county fair on race days,
and an afternoon shopper was extremely
lucky if he found any one to wait on him,
notwithstanding the fact that every store
had an army of new clerks engaged.
The number of young ladies who had an
opportunity of earning Christmas money,
this year than ever before. The immense
number of applications for such positions
showed very strikingly the great army OF
unemployed ladies in Springfield. who
would be happy TO be employed if suitable
employment was to be had. Several mer-
chants tell me that they refused dozens of
such applications for clerkships every day.
Those who were so fortunate as to obtain
them probably found that such employ
ment was a thousand times pleasanter than
sitting around home in enforced idleness.
Many girls who have a dreary, mOnOtOnOus
life at home, have during these few holi-
day weeks caught bright glimpses of the
world, and of the charm of society. They
will many of them be 10th to quit their
places besides the counters filled with
bright and beautiful goods and 10 leave the
audience of bright Christmas faces. Still.
however these few weeks of clerking eN-
perience will be of incalculable benefit
10 many Of these special saleS-ladies.
They have had excellent opportunities in
this way TO acquire knowledge OF business
principles, business enterprises, and the
value of doing everything by an exact sys-
ten. They have also had the valuable ex-
perienee of learning how 10 rush through a
great amount of business in a short time.
Many of them will go back to their homes
with an increased capacity for the details of
their household duties, whether il is engi-
neering the family household cleaning or
keeping tally of the butchers bill. Every
hOusekeeper knows that her duties require
almost as much calculation and system as
those of a bookkeeper. and the woman of
business and system always makes the best
housekeeper. Housekeeping il a dismal
failure without an exact system.
A young man said 10 ME not long ago:
''When l marry | shall choose one of the
sales-ladies from a Springfield store-that
is, if she will have me- | have noticed
that young ladies who have had the ex-
perience of clerking, and the details of bus
| mess in live business house, always make
the best wives. A girl who has lived at
home pretty much all her life, and who has
! had little opportunity of mixing with sOcie-
ty, will be pretty sure to have cranky no
| tions on some subject or other, which will
annoy her husband, and which he will
never be able to argue her out of. Not so
your sales-lady. She will be pretty sure to
make a systematic, business-like house
keeper, with a head for accounts
which detects at once any little
inaccuracies in the grOcers' or
butchers bills and keeps the house
as orderly as the accounts in a
ledger. Long experience in talking to, and
serving customers of all ages and charac-
terS will have given her great insight into
human nature, and considerable knowledge
of the world. which is one of the most val
liable qualities in wife Then again the
necessity of being pleasant to customers
| under all circumstances no matter how eX-
! aspeTating their whims may be, will have
taught another valuable quality-patience.
| think | have said enough to make my
point, that sales-ladies, teachers, ladies
who have learned TO do the worlds work
well enough 10 till such positions accepta-
| bly-make the best wives under all circum-
stances. A man may rest assured that a
girl who has succeeded in earning her OWL
living before marriage. will have the ability
to take care of herself and family, if he
| should be removed, and she left to fight the
battle of life alone. No woman can have
too much intelligence and common sense t0
occupy position at the head of a family
The young man who originated the above
remarks seems to be quite philosopher in
his way. and the girls can possibly get his
photograph by sending two cent stamp tC
this Office.
The fast express on the Bee Line which
covers the distance from Springfield to Gin.
cinnati in two hours and half is known
as the Flying Buckeye" These flying
nicknames are current the world over. In
diana has the Flying Hoosier," Connect
cut the Flying Nutmeg" Pennsylvania
the Flying Keystone" Scotland the Fly
ing ScOtchman," Ireland the Flying
Irishman, etc. An old railroad man
tells me that he believes that
that half hour on the Flying
Buckeye is an ornament which will be
knocked off in the next few years. He be,
lieves that an express train will be put on
a.