The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1898-11-30
HOMH-BUYHRs.
AN ADDRESS TO WOMEN, by NATH'L c
FOWLER, yR., OF BOSTON.

| bOu VIC WOfntu.
The cook lady and the scrub-lady were
made afterwards.
You love the town of your birth, or
the town of your adoption.
You magnify its advantages, and you
belittle its disadvantages.
If you don't respect your town nobody
will respect it.
No woman is half woman unless
there is engraven upon the looking glass
of her mind that patriotic motto of local
progression, "My town first other towns
afterwards"
You are the owners of your town.
Man may think that he is monarch Of
all he can survey, but he isn't.
You may not vote, but when you want
to vote, all the men in christendom will
be but bubbles on the sea of politics.
He who would beard the lion in his
den, who would press his finger upon the
button of trade that business may jingle
when he connects the wires, who would
smoke his cigar before the ALREADY to
smoke mouths of many cannon, dares
not face his wife-of -over-a year, wearing
the second pair of trousers made by the
tailor who does not fit him to suit her.
The mother of creation is the buyer
of creations necessities.
Without depreciating the great me-
chanical and financial interests of the
country | will make the surprising, and
yet positively true statement verified by
the unimpeachable statistics of the
world, that the larger part of the pro-
duct of the earth, and of machinery, is
intended for the inside and outside of
the human body, and is used in the
economy, comfort, and luxury of home
living.
| Woman controls the family.
Woman is the queen of the home, the
home maker or the home breaker, the
captain of the house, and the naturally
elected buyer.
Woman, not man, holds trade in the
hollow of her hand.
Eighty per cent. of the advertisements
in your newspapers, in your magazines,
and in your family papers, are written
for the eyes of woman, and announce
goods used by women and purchased by
women.
The woman buys for herself, for the
children, and for every member of the
household.
There isn't a manly man entirely
womanless.
If the man is wifeless, and is not ar
ranging for wife, be is living under the
influence of some female-his mother,
his aunt, his sister, or somebody's else
sister.
The women of your town, not the men
town,
Within the woman is the power to
make or break the town.
The character of your town is reckoned
by its business
A town with thousand thousand dol
lar families is ten times more progressive
than a town of dozen millionaires.
In the circulation of money, not in the
storing of money, is the good of money.
The rapid, healthful, vigorous circula
ton of money is as necessary to the
strength of the town as is the circulation
of the blood necessary to the well-being
of the body.
Show me the business street of a town,
and l will tell you the sincerity of its
churches, the size of it's libraries, the
breadth of its schools, and the character
of its people.
. The business street is the giant artery
of the system of progression.
Not the factories of your town, not
the railroads of your town, not the in
stitutions of your town, not the popula-
tons of your town, make your town,
although they all help.
In local home business is local pro-
gression.
Where there is local business there is
available money for better churches,
better libraries, better schools, and bet
ter everything.
| Annihilate local business, or stunt its
growth, and there tcomes a depression
that depresses everything even to civil
zation.
Would you, as representative women,
have your town satisfactory to your
selves, satisfactory to your visitors, good
enough for your children, so progressive,
SO pleasant, so filed with every needed
advantage, that your sons can afford to
make the town of their childhood the
hometown of their life and business, and
your daughters may not be driven across
its borders in search of husbands?
In your hands rests the fate of your
town.
r. AS you will it, so will it be.
The business of your town makes the
town, and you make the business.
Let your local duty be your first duty.
There can be no second duty while the
first duty remains unattended to.
There cannot be business without Gus
toners.
You are the customers.
Don't go to the distant city a.shopping
or a-buying unless necessity demands.
Give your local stores the first chance.
If your town is halfway decent there
is very little of necessity, and almost as
little of luxury, which you cannot buy
at home at big city prices.
Perhaps the great city emporium may