The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-11-23

To see some ladies intent on getting
good and wholesome supplies for their
families would seem TO indicate thai;
no one but they had any rights worth
considering in the transaction.
Wen soiled kid gloves on their
hands for every kid glove that is not
perfectly new is soiled 10 a greater or
less extent. they pinch the meats and
poultry finger the game. pick over
the vegetables and handle the fruit.
1t may be argued that food supplies
should be washed before eaten: but
that does not lessen the sin against
humanity committed in handling
thin"s that never should be handled in
stores. No matter how dainty the lady
may be. nobody wants 10 buy a roa II
that she has fingered.
The eye. rather than the hand,
should Judge the food, and the word
of the dealer should be considered
more than II is. If he il dishonest.
deal elsewhere; but if he is honest. do
not damage his goods by lingering
them
And other thing: some women are
positively dishonest in their dealings
in that they insist upon picking out
the very best Of everything.
II 4 ZIbttT DuE 4 l'tth u dpl'lt~
and lady insists upon picking out all
the best ones when buying ten cents
worth. the rest must go at a discount.
PincEed peaches soon start to decay
and must be sacrificed.
Be ides. the dealers time is worth
some. ming and every delay counts on
the wrong side of the ledger.
There are women who can not spend
fifty cents without infinitely examining
every article they buy and wasting
the dealers time, yet they never think
they are imposing upon the long
suffering shopkeeper
He dare not be anything but polite
and courteous to his patrons, and 50
the loss goes on continually.
1t Is all very we'll to be careful
about buying. but there is such a thing
as having a trained eye aid the ability
to Judge quickly.
Did you ever see a group of girls
enter a candy shop and drift like bees
to the counter where candies and nuts
are left uncovered for sampling?
zone of this kind. and one of this
may reach an alarming amount when
half dozen thoughtless maidens have
their sweet tooth" whetted. The pro-
prietor can say nothing, of course. but
he may watch with consternat ton sew
eral dollars worth of his stock dist p
pear in a very short time.
All buyers should keep these things
in mind.-Hilda Richmond.
Everyone who is at all familiar with
the magnificent work of the Georgia
club women for the illiterate mountain
people of the state will be interested
in the following from the pen Of Miss
Emma Perry, formerly principal Of
the Poplar Springs school
II leave my work believing fully
that the country is the ideal place for
school: that rural Georgia can be re-
claimed through the work of the In
dustrial High School; that it is both
proper and possible for enough such
TO be built in Georgia to stamp out
the blight of ignorance which has for
so long cursed our fair state: that if
Georgia could have enough schools of
the right kind in the country that
country civilization would cease to
flow to the towns"
The farm women Of Ohio We're
aroused to a great deal of Interest in
the late suffrage campaign. For years
the farm men Of that state have been
gathering comparatively rich estates
while their wives have been limited by
the butter and egg money" which
only too often, had to cover the school
ing and wardrobe as we'll as many
other accessories to the farm home
When the suffrage campaign started
and intelligent speakers went through
out the country districts showing these
women what their responsibility was
in regard to the making of the laws
under which they live, il threw a new
light upon the matter They saw
their duty toward their homes and
children as they had not heretofore
seen it. That finally proved a strong
element in the campaign which in it
self is not the full value of that cam.
paign. The outgrowth Of better
schools and better civic conditions il
a init Vie NJ