Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1907-11-07

I with 6onie Comforts.
Some merchants wonder why so
many Of the women on the farms keep
| mail order catalogues constantly on
| hand and buy articles from the big
city houses which they might purchase
! from the home stores to equal adyan-
! tlCe. Did ii over occur to you that the
| town merchants who make any special
provision for the comfort of farmers
wiz es and daughters who patroniZe
I the stores are scarcer than hens teeth?
+ A recent writer ID Golfers has some
/ thing" 10 say which may offer Il valua
! bic suggestion in the matter of keeping
! and increasing home trade.
/ Suppose you're 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 yel-
low umbrella strapped to the wagon
scat. Shopping done, the wagon un-
hitchcd in Il 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 10 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 10 do but go out into
the street and walk, then return ana
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
cnyelop them; The children'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 ana aoothe TO sleep. The woman
had looked forward 10 this outing as a
much needed change. When she final
~ Gets 10 bed she is too tired to sleep
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
bondalc. Kan. lis the condition in the
average town, There are numerous
places whele the men are welcomed,
where they can spend an hour without
n Thought Of being in the way. Should
not these busy women have place of
their own where. when their shopping
is done. they can take their babies and
visit and rest and so home refreshed
and strengthened rather than utterly
worn out?'
Golfers asks if this is a case for
some plutocrat with money to donate
'or the establishment of n town club
for country women or should ii he
looked after by the township or the
county? 1t appears that 1t should be
loojsed after by the Individual store.
keepers. Here is fine opportunity
for some eAterprising merchant who
wants to sell goods to the women who
ike on farms,
Sapposc YOU are Il farmers wife and
Jon i5INe INTO town for 4 days recrea-
opp'ng. instead OF having
Ip ~ children by the tied up |
Iea.A ana ~-il co!d luncheon on the
i'5 or ia tAH dusty stree yon take
t.2 i.t.'s g PCS % the eAterprising sto1e
os Hl1hA & Co. general merchants. In |
he sto'e igiis.ing IS commodous |
He9h set aside for women and chill |
'-t'a aH"a arc coy chairs, tables |
WI = ~ haWipapefs ana magazines in |
o' 1'"e.a q couch or TWO for loung- |
tE - I;i eng and motherly woman |
~ CO. 'iter the cn'tlren.
Aoo dA3 Va This store a place where |
- may wash the dust of the drive |
toh Aour face and do MP Your back /