The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-07
DRUGGISTS.

because there is a demand for every
single one of these 200 different kinds
we have to keep them all in stock.
Lots of these brands are new.
The public is as tickle in regard to
its favorite soap as it is in regard to
it's favorite song, and you know how
long a new song lasts. Manufacturers
are constantly inventing new brands
and sending on to us. Some Of them
go big and others fall fiat. Some
times the public taste runs to trans
parent soap and again to the perfum-
ed kinds. Sometimes a heavily per-
cumed one is the rage and again it's
an extremely delicate perfume that is
wanted. Right now there is quite a
call for soap powdered as fine as tai
cum powder and sold in bottle with
a perforated cover, from which it is
shaken out just as salt is shaken from
a salt cellar. OF course, there is al
ways a steady demand for old brands
of soap, many of the brands we have
here being Twenty-Five fifty, or even
a hundred years old. At times there is
a big call for different sorts of medi-
Gated soaps. You see, we have here in
the case sulphated, carbolic acid. witch
hazel quinine and other sorts of medi-
Gated soaps. There is always a de-
mand from the women for various
kinds of soap which are supposed to
excuse me a minute
A young woman approached the
counter and said: II want a soap of a
kind that l have seen at the homes OF
several of my friends, l don't know the
name of the brand, but 1 would rec
ognize the soap if l were to see K
again. She looked all over the case
and took a dozen different kinds up
III her hands before she finally found
the sort she wanted.
You see," said the clerk, that's it.
That soap isn't any better than fifty
other kinds that 1 have here, and not
SO good as the soap that customer
used to buy of me. But she has been
visiting around at the homes of her
friends and found that many of them
happened to use this particular sort
that she has just bought. She got the
idea that this soap was the fashion
and one might as we'll be dead as not
in style even in the matter of soap"
At this juncture entered another
young woman, also on Soap-buying
mission. She wanted something new
The clerk showed her half-doZen diff
ferent kinds and finally she selected a
kind in a beautiful little white box
with lilies of the valley embossed in
gold on the cover.
"She bought the box, not the SOAP
said the clerk. THAT is, she cared
more about the manner in which the
soap was wrapped and boxed than she
did for the quality of the soap itself.
Soap manufacturers realize this lido
syncrasy of the soap buying public
and you can see here how handsomely
they have prepared to meet the de-
mand. Toilet soap to-day is as prettily
wrapped and boxed as the finest sta
tionery. Naturally. more attention is
paid to the boxing at Christmas time
for then the soap is intended for a
/ present. At that time especially the
! boxing of the soap is an important
4 feature, and we have the most exquis-
! lite. arrangements in white satin or pink
/ silk-lined boxes and the like. The
/ boxes are made in quaint shapes for
there is constant demand for this
/ class of goods all through the year, al
4 though, of course, Christmas time is
the biggest season."
Il want a soap" said a woman GUS
toner who now approached, of the
same perfume as the kind 1 use.
have a bit on my handkerchief. and
think 1 can pick out the exact odor
if you will show me some of your
brands"
/ The clerk brought out box after box,
and the customer shifted each cake and
then took a sniff of her handkerchief.
After about five minutes of careful
shifting she finally found the soap of
the same perfume as the sort she had
on her handkerchief and she imme-
diately bought five boxes.
That demand" said the clerk, FOR
soap of the same perfume prompted
the manufacturers to put out this ar
rangement. You see 1t is handsome
ly made box containing bottle of per-