Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-12

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 With Hore Comforts.
 Somc merchants WonGer Mh, >e many of tue Wumcn on the farms kec,5 mail orocr catalogues constantly on hand and buy articles from the hi, city houses which they might purchase from thc home stores to equal advan tase. Did it ever occur to you that thC town merchants who make any spC, provision for the comfort of farmer wives and daughters who patroniIe the stores are scarcer than hens teeth: A recent writer in Golfers has some. thing to say which may offer q valua bIe suggestion in the matter of keeping and increasing home trade
 Suppose you're Kansas farmcr.v wife. says this writer You have dri> en into town for street fair day in the willing heat of the prairie summer. your husband. the three small chidreD. including the baby, under the big NeE low umbrella strapped to the wage" seat. shopping done, the wagon un hitcbcd iii q 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 co to q store, to be sure, where sh" would be in every ones way. Well meaning folks would give the children candy until tleir little hands would stick tO everything they touched. in cludin" tnoir motherS skirts, and thcle would be nothing 1o do but go out into the street aud 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 enveIop them; the children's hands and faces become lrimy. Finally, at H o'clock the man returns, hitches Ui}. They watch the balloon ascension and start home. Then what? Supper 10 get mIlk to strain and pat away. dishes tl wash. chickens to shut N,r. calves tC feed and the tired babies to ha1he and s"otne to sleep. The wonfan had locked forward to this outing as q much needed change When she final lv gets to bed she is too tired 10 sleep. Her holiday had been spent under a wagon on a dirty vacant lot The shade of the trees of her own yard would have been plcasanter,
 This, writes q woman from Car bondale, Kan, "is the condition in the ] average tcWn. 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 go home rcfrcshct! and strengthened rather than utterly worn cut:
 Golfers asks if this is case fer fer the establishment of a town club for country women or should it he looked after by the township or the county: II appears that it should lo looked after by the individual store keepers Here is 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 a days recrea- tor and shopping. Instead of having to keep the children by the tied up team and eat a cold luncheon on the grass or in the dusty street you take the little ones to the enterprising store of Blank X Co.,. general merchants. In the store building is commodious room set aside for women and chi- dren. There are coZy chairs, tables l with the newspapers and magazines in easy reach. q couch or two for lOung- Ing or mapping and motherly woman l 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 Headquarters for the day, leaving your bundles there as well as your children. You are free to go about town on CT 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 in 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 1 wagon and start for home you will feel a great deal better than if you have bad to undergo the experience of the wo- man described above
 If Blank & Co offer you such club room, where will you do most of your trading? With Blank & Co.,, of course l Thus the firm gets more than value re-
 ceived for the expense of maintaining the clubroom and in addition has the satisfaction of making the farmer family com fortable for the day.
 Any merchant who has the entt'
 prise to opc6 such a rest room in coz.
 necton with bis store and advertSc
 the fact is bound to get profitable re
 suits.