The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-12-07
WOMEN Want
STORES SHUT
w. G. +. u. Members Favor Idea
of Closing to Business on Sat-
urday Nights.
SEX is RESPONSIBLE
FOR PRESENT SYSTEM
Effort Will be Made to Get All
the Women of the City Agreed
on a Public Sentiment Which
Will be Paramount.

The closing of the stores Saturday
nights is to be attempted by members
of the Womens Christian Temperance
unions of the city. While it is real
lied that no effeort along this line
would be fair until after the holiday
season is over, they feel that for the
sake of the clerks, who often do not
get started for their homes until 1870
p. m, this ought to be done.
at is women who are responsible
for the stores keeping open," said
one member Several of the firms
are ready and willing to close, only.
of course, they cannot be expected to
do So If their business rivals refuse
to. 1 know personally of women who
do this needless Saturday night shop
ping: women who can go down any
afternoon in the week, but who sell
fishly, though perhaps its because
they haven't thought Of the matter on
both sides, put off making their pur-
chases until late Saturday. Clerks
tell me that any number Of women,
promenading up and down the eve
nue., run into this store and that, get
the clerk to take down bolt after
then say, We'll, I didn't intend to buy
anything tonight. l am just looking.
1 will come in early in the week.
And the clerks have to put back all
those bolts of cloth before they can
leave the store to go home"
Requires Public Sentiment.
It was suggested that the matter
was one requiring a public sentiment
and since the women are the chief
offenders, it was thought advisable to
take it up with the various womens
clubs of the city, asking members to
personally refrain from Saturday night
shopping and to endeavor to have the
stores closed.
Girls go home so tired Saturday
nights" said another member that
they sleep late Sunday mornings. are
too tired to go to church and Sunday
school; just sit around, some of them
have told men, all day, too tired tc
even comb their hair. With many OF
them too, working for SIS or Sc q
| week. Sunday has to be given over
to washing, ironing and mending.
| know perfectly nice girls who spend
their Sunday this way. They have to ;
Get Purity Worker.
| At n joint meeting OF the Nortf
| Yakima and Frances Willard unions
held yesterday afternoon in the Chris
| tan church it was decided to brins
| Mrs. Mary Brown, w. G. T. u. worker
| who has done much in the cause Of
| social purity under the auspices Of
| the West Washington w c. T. u. dur
ing the past two weeks, to Yakima
county for two weeks or more. Ell
| forts will be made to have Wapato
| Toppenish, Zillah and the lower val
ley town get Mrs. Brown to worl
with then, also. Meetings for moth
ers will be held. and work don,
| through the schools.
IT should like to have meetin,
brought about in which the working
girls OF the city could be told SOM
said one member
Talk for High School Girls.
IT should like to have the higl
school girls told certain things al
WELL" said another member.
1t was stated that one Of the troub
les with the public schools in the cit.
lay just here and that any work which
would tend to a betterment Of condi
tions was work well worth the doing
! Feeling that better progress is mad
If a frequent opportunity Is given tn
members of all the unions to talk owe
such matters as these, a motion wa
carried to have joint meetings Of tn
unions once a month, on separat
day from the bi-monthly meetings o
the individual unions. The FIRST Mon
day afternoon OF each month wa
oh sen, and a special invitation to tn
newly organized Fruitvale union t
attend will be given.
A reception IS planned TO hear tn
report of Mrs. Myrtle d. Robert.
corresponding secretary Of the stat
w. c. T. u, who was delegate to tn
national W. c. T. u. convention a
Baltimore, and who Is expected t
return in q few days.