The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1907-07-19
REST ROOM IN STORE
Suggestion ofVaIue to Merchants
Who Want Country Trade.
PLEASE THE FARMERS WIFE.
Provide Accommodation For Women
and Children Who Spend a Day or
an Afternoon In Town-Headquarte
With Home Comforts.


hand and buy articles from the big
city houses which they might purchase
from home stores to equal advan-
tag / it ever occur to you that the
to- chants who make any special
2 - for the comfort of farmers
g and daughters who patronize
= stores are scarcer than hens teeth?
A recent writer Id Golfers has some
thing to say which may offer valua-
BILE suggestion in the matter Of keeping
and Increasing home trade.
Suppose you're a Kansas farmers
wife, says this writer. You have driv-
en- into town for street fair day in the
whiting heat Of the prairie summer,
your husband, the three small children,
including the baby, under the big yell
low umbrella strapped to the wagon
seat. Shopping done, the wagon I'M
h1tched in vacant lot, lunch eaten in
Its shade, the man goes back to the
holiday street. The woman stays be-
hind to mind the children. She might
go to a store, to be sure, where she
would be in every ones way. Well
meaning folks would give the children
candy until their little hands would
stick to everything they touched, In
Guiding their mothers skirts, and there
would be nothing to do but 60 out into
the street and walk, then return and
wait and wait. So all that long after
noon she sits on the ground, holding
the baby in the little patch Of shade.
The sun beats down; clouds Of dust
envelop them; the chlldren's hands and
faces become grimy. Finally, at 6
O'Clock, the man returns, bitches up
They watch the balloon ascension and
start home. Then what? Supper. to
get, milk to strain and put away,
dishes to wash, chickens to shut up,
calves to feed and the tired babies to
battle and soothe to sleep. The woman
had looked forward to this outing as
much needed change. When she final
~ gets to bed she is too tired to sleep.
Her holiday had been spent under
wagon on a dirty vacant lot. The
shade Of the trees of her own yard
would have been pleasanter.
'This," writes a woman from Car
bondale, Kan, "is the condition in the
average town. There are numerous
places where the men are welcomed,
where they can spend an hour without
a thought Of being in the way Should
not these busy women have a place of
their own where, when their shopping
Is done, they can take their babies and
visit and rest and 90 home refreshed
and strengthened rather than utterly
worn out ?"
Golfers asks if this is a case for
some plutocrat with money to donate
for the adjustment Of a town club
for country women or should it be
looked after by the township or the
county? 1t appears that it should be
looked after by the Individual store
keepers. Here is a fine opportunity
for some enterprising merchant who
wants to sell goods to the women who
live on farms.
Suppose you are a farmers wife and
you drive into town for days recrea-
ton and shopping. Instead of having
to keep the children by the tied I'D
team and eat cold luncheon on the
grass or in the dusty street you take
the little ones to the enterprising store
OF Blank & Co., general merchants. In
the store building is a commodious
room set aside for women and chill
dren. There are coy chairs, tables
with the newspapers and magazines in
easy reach, a couch or two for lOung-
ing or mapping and motherly woman
on duty to look after the children.
You find in this store place where
you may wash the dust of the drive
from your face and do up your back
hair and see that your hat is on
straight. You make the rest room your
for the day, leaving your
bundles there as well as your children.
You are free to go about town on er-
rands, returning at noon to eat your
luncheon from one of the tables, per
haps with a cup Of coffee hot off the
little stove provided for that purpose. |
You meet here also some of the wo-
men who live III town and who drop in |
to rest and chat while doing their |
shopping. When the time comes for |
you to bundle the children into the |
wagon and start for home you will feel |
a great deal better than if you have had |
to undergo the experience of the wo-
man described above
II Blank & Co. offer you such q club |
room, where will you do most Of your |
trading? With Blank & Co, of course. |
Thus the firm gets more than value re-
'elved for the expense of maintaining |
he clubroom and in addition has the |
OF making the farmers |
,amily comfortable for the day.
Any merchant who has the enter
Prise to open such a rest room in con-
lcction with his store and advertise |
he fact is bound to get profitable re-
suits
VINO is going to be the first to make
his sensible bid for the patronage of |