Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-12-01
REST ROOM IN STORE
Suggestion ofVaIue to MeFc.arto
 Who Want Country Trade.
PLEASE THE FAAhiE::. s WIFE.

Provide .Accomm odation For Wonen
 and Children Who Sper.I q Day or
 an Afternoon In Tcwn-rieadqusfter
 With Home Comforts.
 Some merchants wonder why SO many of the women on the farms kee, mail order catalogues constantly oD hand and buy articles from the big city houses which they might purchase from the home stores to equal advan tage. Did it ever occur to you that thc town merchants who make any special provision for the comfort of farmers wives and daughters who patronize the stores are scarcer than hens teeth: A recent writer ip Colliar's has some. thing to say which may offer valus, ble suggestion in the matter of keeping and increasing home trade.
 Suppose you're a Kansas farmers wife, says this writer You have drly, en into town for street fair day in the wilting heat of the prairie summer your husband, the three small children. including the baby, under the big vel! low umbrella strapped to the waso', seat. Shopping done, the wagon ul- hitched in vacant lot. lunch eaten i its shade, the man goes back to th" holiday street. The woman stays be- yS fN>f1 ,Ss>I .1,;1< ...l,r 60 to store. to be sure, where sh" would he in every ones way. Wei! meaning folks would give the childrcp candy until their little hands would stick to everything they touched. il! cluding their mothers skirts. and there would be nothing to do but go out into the street and walk, then return and wait and wait. So all that lon. after. noon she sits on the ground hJ':ji"~ the baby in the little patch of sh;.:e The sun beats down: clouds ui tt.,.' enyclOp them: the children $ hands ;snG faces become grimy. Finally. :t r o'clock the man returns. hitcLeS up start home Then what? Supper tfl get, milk to strain and put away. dishes to wash. chickens to shut rp calves to feed and the tired babies ln bathe and soothe to sleep. The wonlan had looked forward 10 this putin" as d much needed change. When she final ly gets to bed she is too tired to sleep. Her holiday had been spent under q wagon on dirty vacant lot. The shade of the trees of her own yard would have been pleasantcr.
 This writes d woman from Car bondale. Kan, lis the condition in tila average town. There are nuucrous places where the men are welcOMpI where they can spend an hour without a thought of being in the way Sho1l, 1. not these busy women have 2 place Q! their own where. when their shopping is done, they can take their babies and vtsit and rest and go home refreshed and strengthened rather than utterly worn out:'
 Golfers asks if this is a case for some plutocrat with money to dou8tt for the establishment of q town clflh for country women CT should 1t bf looked after by the township or the county? It appears that it should lc looked after by the Individual store keepers. Here is q fine opp0rtur..y for solDe entcrprisins! merchant who wants t, sell goods to the women who live Gn farms.
 Suppose you are q farmers wife an? you drive into town for a days recrea- tion and shopping. Instead of having to keep the children by the tel uf team and eat d cold luncheon on the grass or in the dusty street you take the little ones to the cnterprisins &.eaa of Blank X Co.,, genera, merchants. IT. the store building is commodious room set aside for women and chl- dren. Thcre are coZy chairs, tables with the newspapers and magazines in easy reach, couch or two for loun2- ing or mapping and motherly woman on duty to look after the children.
 You find in this store a place wheHc you may wash the dust of the drive from your face and do up your bac! hair and see that your hat is or straight You make the rest room your 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 of 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 thei, shopping When the time comes fo! you to bundle the children into the wagon and start for home you will feel a great deal better than if GU have ha.t to undergo the experience of the wo man described above.
 If Blank X Go. offer you such club room, where will you do most of you, trading? With Blank & Co.,, of course Thus the firm gets more than value re celved for the expense of maintaininr the clubroom and in addition has the satisfaction of making the farmer family comfortable for the day.
 Any merchant who has the ente,