Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-10-13
REST ROOM IN STORE
Suggestion of Value to Merchants Who Want Country Trade.
PLEASE THE FARMER'S WIFE
Provide Accommodation For Womer and Children Who Spend a Day oi an Afternoon In Town-Headquarte With Home Comforts.

an Afternoon In IoWn-Headquarte
 With Home 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 advan tage. Did 1t ever occur to you that tue town merchants who make any special provision for the comfort of farmers wives and daughters who patronize Y ne stores are scarcer than hens teeth |: "A recent writer ip Golfers has some. thing to say which may offer valua. ble 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 willing heat of the prairie summer. your husband, the three small children. Including the baby, under the big vel low umbrella strapped to the wagon seat Shopping done, the wagon un- hitched 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 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 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 long after noon she sits on the ground, holding the baby in the little patch of shade The sun beats down; clouds of dlls: enyelop them; the children's hands and faces become grimy. Finally, at l o'clock, the man returns, hitches up They watch the balloon ascension and start home. Then what? Supper tG get, milk to strain and put away, dishes to wash, chickens to shut np calves to feed and the tired babies to bathe and soothe to sleep. The woman had looked forward to this outing as a much needed change When she final ly gets to bed she is too tired to 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 pleasanter
 "This,' writes woman from Car bondale, Kan.. 'is the condition in the O places where the men are welcomed where they can spend an hour without thought of being in the way Should not these busy women have a place of their own where, when their shopping is done, theE can take their babies and visit q reHt and go home refreshed and encthened rather than utterly worn out?''
 Golfers asks if this is case fer some plutocrat with money to donate for the establishment of a town club for country women or should it bt looked after by the township or the county? It 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 ui' team and eat a cold luncheon on the grass or in the dusty street you tale the little ones to the enterprising store of Blank & Co.,, general merchants. In the store building is commodious room set aside for women and chil- dren. There are cozy chairs, tables with the newspapers and magazines in easy reach, a couch or two for lOunS ing or mapping and motherly womar on duty to look after the children.
 You find in this store a 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 headquarters 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
 
 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 fol you to bundle the children into the wagon and start for home you will fee! o croot 1aal battnr tho n if vOu have had to undergo the experience of the wo man described above
 If Blank x Co. offer you such club room, where will you do most of you trading? With Blank x Co.,, of course 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 farmers family comfortable for the day.
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