The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19
GOALS FROM THE FIELD

IF you wish to do your Christmas
shopping successfully says a clever
woman In the New York Sun, take a
good-looking young man with YOU The
way the salesladies will fly around to
wait on you will be a revelation" She
claims she learned this secret by the ae-
cident of taking her brother--or was it
somebody's else brother?-with her. on a
shopping tour, It was norssan accident
that the young man received attention,
nor was it all to the discredit of the
salesladies that they FLEW around" to try
to please him. The fact is that men buy
quicker than women in the storess They
buy more largely when they are really
buying, and, last but not least, they
show more appreciatfon nof the efforts Of
a salesgirI than a, woman. TO the aver
age woman shopping is a ssgreat gam E.
The people behind the counters are only
pieces on the, board She plays them Ito
the limit and never seems to have AN idea
that they may, after all, be human and
have that common human weakness for
recognition and praise. When a man
gets what he wants in a store he pays
for it, thanks the clerk and walks. out.
After a woman gets what she wants; and
while she is waiting for her change she
has the clerk take down everything on
any intention of buying at that time. But
could stores be run on the basis Of men
purchasers? Hardly. They would have
a congestion Of trade at times and then
a dearth of business which would send
all the interesting young women clerks
to chewing gum for relief Mere man
does not buy things until he has to, and
then he generally buys the wrong thing,
while the feminine makes buying an art
Father Cleary, in his speech to the pro-
hibitionists the other night, suggested
that that party take into earnest consid-
GRAFTON the enforcement of the laws we
have before making an onslaught for new
ones. He 1nstanced the difficulties Of en-
forcing liquor laws in small communi-
ties where neighborhood jealousies, init
mate personal relations and the exigen-
cles of local politics make it difficult, if
not impossible, for the officers Of the law
to have that active supervision over this
subject which is desira BILE and necessary.
He thought it might be well to take into
consideration the appointment of state
commission which should have charge of
the enforcement Of liquor, laws. Itamight,
he believed, be organized on the plan Of
the state railway commission, which
hears complaints against railroads and
acts where necessity is shown to exist.
The prohibitionists seemed to be- i'm
pressed with the idea, and perhaps some
of the members they have elected to the
legislature may take up the idea. .
Dean Pattee remarked, in responding
to his toast On the same OCCASION, that
he was not now a prohibitionist but he
came from the prohibition state of Maine,
and he could testify that he had lived in
| that state for the first twenty-five years
of his life, and he had never seen OF
known of liquor being sold. He Thought
it a great tribute to the laws Of the state
of Maine that within it's boundaries BOYS
could be, and were, raised to manhood
without ever having seen ore, tasted
liquor. He admitted that In the large
cities of the state a different state 5of
| things might exist, but the, four or five
comparatively large towns were not the
whole off the state i'of Maine He told a
| funny story of how liquor was obtained
| under the old law, when man might buv
| 1t, provided he signed a. statement Of
what he intended to do with 1t. 4 Liquor
| could be had for mechanical purposes The
story was of an old farmer who came
| into town and got a jug of rum He was
| walking off with it when the dealer
! called him back and asked what he was
going to do with the stuff
! Il got this rum for mechanical plr.
| poses" said the farmer 81 am; going
to have some men up at my place. and
we are going to raise a barn.
| ~ ss a.. James Gray