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out in the suburbs and opens up lit
tie store. He is forced to live over the
store, eat his meals of the prescription
case, with an interruption of two or three
times during meals. His scope OF vision
becomes narrowed with the four walls
Of the store and he doesn't see from his
patrons standpoint OF view.
There are something like 10000
items in a complete drug store and the
average young man hasn't.the courage to
invest to this extent. customer, for
instance, will go into a suburban drug
store and ask for an article. He is told
that they do not keep 1t. The next day
he goes in and asks for something else.
He is told that they are just out. With
a few such experiences the customer gets
tired and does his trading at down.
town store where the stock is complete
Any one of the suburban stores can be
made Just as complete as any OF the
downtown stores, but 1t takes courage
and capital to do this.
Then there is the case Of dry rot"
Miss Dow went on. "At the corner OF
9Th and Walnut SITS. there has been
drug store from time immemorial. One
man ran 1t ffty-two years. He was a
good and honorable nan, but he did not
have the virility In advancing years to
progress. His business dwindled until
his customers didn't buy anything but
postage stamps because he had little else
In tie store worth buying. We bought
it, refitted it, restocked it and it was
paying store from the start.
Then there is the principle OF all
good ACKNOWLEDGMENT profits and
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Jeuzs c1ezk ri oAa1e efEz1sz wore

these little touches not only made It at
tractive to women, but that women felt
freer to make certain of their wants
known where one Of their own sex was
behind the counter, and even today in all
our stores have a policy that wherever
possible there shall be one woman clerk.
This first store was very small, in
fact / could stand in the middle of it,
reach the pills from one side with one
hand and the jars of striped stick candy
on the opposite side with the other.
became ambitious to have an uptown
location and finally accumulated enough
to lease a room a few doors from our
present store at the corner Of 9TH and
Race streets.
81 made this first uptown store espe-
cially attractive to women. advertised,
sent out invitations and It was a success.
For four years l ate my meals in the
store. did stenographic work, messenger
work, janitor work and had little pleas
ure save seeing the business grow. A
little later we moved down to the cor
ner and here we went in for Celebrations
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-11-28
WHY Fido How1s at the Moon
FAULT ISN'T DOGS-SO1E HUMAN TO BLAME

early days in kennel, warm and rain
and wind proof. with companions 10 Cud-
die to on cold nights. His new quarters
appall him by force of contrast. The rain
drips steadily on his coat as he tries to
settle down to sleep; the piercing east
wind makes him SILVER: he is supremacy
miserable, and canine nature rebels
against the hardness of his fate. So Pat.
thinking of the friends he has lost and
the warm comfort of his old home, cries
and cries as though his poor heart would
break
But he gets no sympathy from the
neighbors. and is laid out with a brick
bat or cudgel at the first opportunity.
The brickbat and the cudgel should be
reserved for the man who pays his IL
cense.
Then there is yet another cause for
canine excitement which finds vent in
peals of banks at nighttime Snap, the
fox-terrier, has a quick ear for unfamiliar
footsteps. and he lifts himself in his
straw bed and pricks his ears as some
one with evil designs approaches the
house. He is convinced that something is
wrong. and let's OF his alarm in no
half-hearted manner The would-be
housebreaker takes the hint at once and
hurries away. But Snap keeps up his
disturbs his owner and others who live
nearby. Only Snap knows Of the bur-
glar that would be. and so he is accused
OF misdemeanor and thrashed either
at the time or on the following morning.
What has been made clear is this, that
dog, providing he is we'll housed, well
fed, and given a chance to get used to
new surroundings. will sleep as quietly as
any mortal can sleep, providing his duty
as a Watchdog permits him to do so.
There are other reasons for the peace
that should prevail at night being dis
turbed by dogs. Perhaps Prince, the col
lie, is Ill and In pain; maybe he is hun
cry or thirsty. But from whatever cause
his trouble arises, it should be the duty
OF the owner to try to stop It at once.
Perhaps they won't be quite 50
thoughtless now that this plea for>the dog
has been Pat before thsm.
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business was the Cincinnati Humane So
ciety.
On all of her stationery and printed
matter there was this standing state
ment. even to the backs of her en-
velopes:
A Square Deal for the Horse.
We believe every horse deserves
three ample meals daily: water fire.
quently; proper shoes; blanket in
cold weather; two weeks vacation
annually.
Throw away the whip.
She replaced all her horse-drawn
drays with mechanical ones because she
did not like to see heavy loads drawn up
Gilbert ave. hill by animals. All her
horses were sent to the country, and
will never put their feet on paved streets
again.
q @ o
She had no special system in her
stores. save that of a cash register, and
none in her general business save that
used by any prosperous commercial or
ganization.
Her wholesale business was the natu-
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The dog bowls at the moon
long and loud. The neighbor
seizes a book or piece of brio
a-brac and hurls it through the window
to try to hit the dog to try to make him
stop bowling.
The whole thing is wrong from first to
last-except the moon. There is no rea-
son why the moon shouldn't shine II II
wants to, but there is a RESPONSIBILITY
several-why the dog shouldn't howl at
the moon and why the neighbor shouldn't
try to knock the dog quiet.
A dog should no more howl at the
moon than should a man. And he won't
IL he is given the proper care. A dog
If he could state his case would without
doubt convince any unprecedented jury
that he was quite justified in prolonging
his signals OF distress through the night
watches until relief arrived.
The prisoner at the bar in this case
would be the man and not the dog. Dogs
will not howl for the sake OF bowling,
neither will their alarm" go of without
cause. There are, of course, dogs with
weak intellects Just as there are owners
with weak intellects. These dogs may
perchance pass a pleasant hour or so
baying the moon out Of pure meanness.
But he is the one dog in a thousand.
This story is about the 999 dogs. your
dog and mine.
The average dog will turn in at night
and sleep like the proverbial top under
normal conditions until the household is
astir in the morning. II the conditions
are not normal he tries to pass the word
to his owner. and unhappily the message
is delivered to the whole neighborhood
as we'll
Try to imagine yourself In the position
Of Fido. He is an indoor dog treated as
one of the family. In the day time If the
weather IN fine he may come and 90 a.
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in the way Of white marble and stained
glass.
"One day." continued Miss Dow, "a
few years later, 1 walked past the block
at the corner Of 4th st. and Central ave-,
near the Grand Central depot. There
was a dark and dreary room with huge
blocks of coal in the window. l rented
it, borrowing the money for stock and
fixtures, and opened a second store.
About this time or little later had
a clerk who possessed fondness for the
races. He discharged himself by more
attention to horses than his work. He
opened a store In opposition to that Of
mine, with some money he had inherited.
Well, after a time ! saw an assignee's
sign on his window. / didn't want the
store, but anyhow / put in a bid for the
stock and fixtures and was later motif
fed that my bid was accepted. 1 had no
place for this stock and fixtures, but was
given two days to remove them. ! walked
the streets hunting a location and finally
found one down on Vine st. occupied by
a fruit store, the proprietor Of which had
no lease. could get one and as l did
not want to turn the poor fellow out, I
bought his stock Of oranges, lemons and
figs for several hundred dollars and gave
them to him to vacats at once. and ]
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There are many men who have a per-
centage Of the feminine in their nature.
There are many women who have
percentage Of the masculine in their
nature.
But Cora Dow was totally woman.
Best of all, she was totally human.
Many men have overbalanced intel
lects.
Many women have overbalanced
hearts.
But Cora Dow was well balanced in
heaft and mind, and her success was as
much due. to heart quality as intellectual
quality.
Physically Miss Dow was rather slight.
She dressed well, but there was nothing
In her clothes to suggest conspicuousness
or even elegance. The superficial impress
sion of her was that of a college bred
woman, who in middle age expressed a
modest personality in a house Of colonial
design, furnished with antiques, and who
would occupy herself with the best Of
literary fiction and in the enjoyment Of
the fine arts generally.
Miss Dow, when you started out did
you have any vision Of a business of the
proportions that yours has attained-in
other words, did you have any mental
picture of what you wanted to attain"
This was the first question put to her
by the writer.
NO" she replied, 81 started out in
life with visions of becoming a profess
sional musician. There is saying that
man proposes and Nature disposes, and
obviously this will apply to q woman in
: her ambition.
my father had little drug store over
by the c., H. & D. depot and his passing
made necessary the coming Of bread
winner. 1 put a clerk in charge of this
store, entered the Cincinnati College Of
Pharmacy and was graduated in my
nineteenth year.
THE location of this first store was
residence neighborhood in those days and
this, together with the commuters who
used the c., H. & D. railroad. made it a
fair location. l early saw the fact that
there was a good deal of tragedy about
having prescriptions filled and buying
medicines and supplies for the sick, and
/ made the store cheerful with lunches
Of cheap flowers and other little touches,
as much as my slender means would
permit.
Another thing learned here was that
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HE[e0asa CzncZHn6Fz'
R61IrHScY School

large volume. There is the old-time
druggist. for instance, who would rather
make thirty-five cents profit out of a
dollar bottle Of something than sell ten
bottles at seventy-one cents each and
make twice as much profit.
I'VE were called cut-raters from the
start. on the principle of small individual
profits and large volume.
This same principle is operative in
eleven stores rather than in one store.
as we find in the profit of selling one bot
tie of something at thirty-fve cents as
against selling ten bottles at seventy-one
cents and making twice as much profit
there is no money in just one drug store
any more"
. =
Miss Dow's diversion was music and
she was one of the most liberal patrons
of this art In Cincinnati. She always
said she had a talent for the apprecia-
ton Of music rather than what she first
supposed was a talent for the production
of music.
Her particular activity aside from her
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~ HERE died the other day in
Cincinnati one of the most re-
markable business women OF
Ohio, a woman who, by her
own efforts, had built up a fortune and
at her death left over a million dollars,
$4,000 of which she willed as an en-
dowment fund to the Cincinnati Sym
phony Orchestra.
Hers was one OF the really great COM
mercial achievements of this country by
q woman. A business starting with one
little drug store, doing less than $50
day, she expanded to a chain of more than
twelve drug stores and a wholesale drug
house, doing a business of over 100000
a year, and accomplished it all in twenty
six years.
Music was her suppressed function and
for this all music lovers in Ohio should
be thankful The money left to the Gin
cinnati Symphony Orchestra will reflect
itself in better music over all the state.
Cora Dow was a fascinating woman to
meet. Not long ago the writer inter
viewed her in Cincinnati and herein is
set down some of the sidelghts of her
career, interesting to women as well as
to men, to women especially as showing
what one woman can do in the business
world of today.
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The writer stated to Miss Dow that he
had been coming to Cincinnati for years,
that he had noticed where she had pur-
chased many a corner drug store that
had failed for want Of patrons, that she
would close it up for week or ten days.
and after its opening again it would re-
main a prosperous corner. The writer
asked IL there was anything psychic in
this-anything that all of US do not I'M
derstand.
NO" said Miss Dow. "it is simply good
merchandising.
Broadly speaking" continued Miss
Dow, there are two causes of failure
in the retail drug business. One is dry
rot and the other is insufficient capital.
For instance, there is the young man
who saves q few thousand dollars, goes
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raj outgrowth of quantity buying and out
Of her warehouse at the corner OF 9th
ST. and Broadway there goes each day
for use in her own retail stores what is
equal to the complete contents of one
ordinary drug store. In conjunction
with her business she operated a large
ice cream factory. into which she was
forced in order to provide wholesome ice
cream for her soda fountains and in this
alone there is more than $1,000 expend-
ed each month for real cream.
The Dow drug stores fill more than
100. 900 prescriptions annually-the pre-
scription business. it is stated, is increas-
ing in spite of the fact that all doctors
are writing fewer prescriptions.
@ 9 .
Had a man done all OF this II would
have been a remarkable achievement.
but it is even more striking in that it
is all the accomplishment of a single
woman-and twenty-six years ago il was
a more difficult matter for women in
business to succeed than it is today
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moon shines full and bright.
The dog bowls at the moon
long and loud. The neighbor
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Tie C1ncEn,1aH JWz
ONoHeSf0

moved in. So you see my ambition and
the growth OF our business was matter
Of evolution"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-03-04
FINALLY "G0T" HIS AVERSION
Jealous Trout Made q Jonah Of His
Rival, Swallowing Him
Whole.

Ever hear Of a trout being in love
turning cannibal and committing muir
der?
Last autumn two trout, each meas.
urtng ten inches, were taken from a
small spring at Wintergreen estate
Highland lake, and placed in a deep
spring, ten feet below walls, where
Pete, a tame trout, fifteen inches long
had made his home for seven years
without companion, according to a
Winsted Comm dispatch to the New
York Herald.
Pete at once took a liking to one OF
the trout, but whenever the lid of the
spring was raised he would glide
through the water after the other one,
and whenever close enough. tried to
bite the fleeing fish. It also was. no.
ticed at feeding time, when bits Of
meat were dropped into the water.
that Pete did not object when his
friend rose from the sandy bottom to
get bite. but kept his eyes on the
other fellow and Immediately gave
chase If he tried to get any food. Jeal.
Gus Pete more than once filed his
mouth SO full Of liver that he could
not close 1t.
The protracted drought caused the
water level to drop from eight feet to
two, and the trout whose life Pete
had sought for three months fell a vic.
tim to the big trout's prowess, the
shallow water not giving him the room
he had been accustomed to when fee
Ing from Pete's assaults. When the
lid Of the spring was raised the other
day only two trout were to be seen
Pete and his friend. From Pete's
mouth protruded the tail of the miss
ing fish.
Pete was easily captured and the
dead trout extracted with difficulty.
Pete appeared none the worse for his
experience and seems contented with
his one companion.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-03-04

HER INHERITANCE
BY FRANK FllsoN.

! Little Miss Raymond read the letter
| beside her plate and looked up in q
dazed way. It announced that she
had fallen heir, most Unexpectedly. to
the sum Of $1,000.
When one is thirty years Of age
not prepossessing, and . stenographer
on SIS . week. the future does not
look very promising. Miss Raymond
had bought new suit that very week.
She had almost decided to let It 60
back, although she knew that she
looked most attractive in It. But
now. Of course, there would be many
suits and dresses.
Then the thought of Philip Barton
struck home to her, and she flushed
guiltily. and the mirage of new dresses
suddenly disappeared.
Philip was her only friend in the
big city. He had lived in the same
rooming house for three years, and
they had been fast friends all that
time. He had confided to her that II
he had q certain sum he could start
profitable undertaking in the manu-.
facture of certain mechanical appli-
ance now made at q disproportionate-
ly high price by the firm which en-
ployed him at $50. And he had fixed
the exact sum at $4,000. Not that he
expected ever to have that amount.
But he had confided It to her as one
Of those unrealizable dreams that
come to all Of US.
That was last Saturday night. For
. whole year they had dined out each
Saturday night together.
Philip was two years younger than
herself. A mere boy. she considered
him. She priced their friendship the
more because she realized that some
day love would come into his life.
Poor, timid little Miss Raymond! No
love had ever entered hers, though
she was overlooking with charity and
affection for all humanity. She was
the sort of woman whom men seldom
apprize at their true worth. When
. man does, he draws a rich prize in
the matrimonial lucky-bag.
Miss Raymond thought about the
legacy the whole day at the office. She
was amused at the independence
which It seemed to give her. She
trembled no longer in fear Of dismis.
sal when rumors few about that
hands" were being laid OF. She was
. "hand"-or had been. Now she was
beginning to feel a human being
again.
When she got home she put on the
new suit and looked at herself crit.
ically in the glass. Whether 1t was
the new suit or whether It was the
legacy undoubtedly she was begin.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-03-04

felt her heart beating 30 tumultuousl,
that she could hardly speak for fea
Of betraying herself.
Wonderful news, Claire!" he cried
shaking her hands in rapture. "Yo'
can't even guess 1t. I'll tell you aftel
dinner. Not before or during dinnel
after! And you'll be SO happy To-
my sake when you know"
They went out to the little Italian
place where they had dined SO often
and. during the repast Of man!
courses little Miss Raymond watched
his happy face in mute sorrow. Sh'
felt that this was the beginning OF thu
end Of their friendship.
After dinner he drew the typewrit
ten letter from his pocket and read II
to her. An anonymous person. who
had the gravest reasons for doing %
wished to bestow the sum Of $4,000
upon him. That sum had been depos
tied in . certain bank to his account
and he was asked to make no effort to
discover the identity of the sender.
He had been to the bank, and the
money was there. The manager had
told him that the mysterious deposition
was q woman; she had explained to
him that she wished to remain I'M
known to him. The manager knew
nothing Of her, but he had accepted
the money subject to an investigation
Of Philips record. So the money was
as good as his.
"And after this I am going to pay
the bill every Saturday night" said
Philip gleefully.
And he began telling her all about
his plans; how he could get part
ner to go in with him to similar
amount, and Of the tiny factory that
he was planning, with success assured
and a prosperous life. They fingered
in the restaurant until everyone else
was gone, and the sleepy walters eyed
them resentfully, and then they
walked home together, and Philip was
still talking.
And Of course I shall move from
here" he said, as they stood before
the rooming house together. II have
got little fiat already planned, and
Claire, want to tell you something.
There is the sweetest, dearest girl
In the world whom l am going to ask
to share it with me. have never told
you Of her."
NO." answered Claire Raymond
quietly. He was too eager to see the
clutch she gave at her heart, and she
was glad of that.
"And then," she said, with . tremu-
lous little laugh. II suppose our long
friendship will be ended"
well, Of course things will be DIFF
ferent," he admitted, "but I hope we
shall see good deal Of each other.
Claire"
Il hope So" she answered mechan-
ically, feeling that his eyes were
turned quizzically on hers. And all
the while she was repeating flercely:
I'm glad did 1t. I'm glad! I'm
glad!"
And suddenly she felt his arms
about her. and his Inns on hers you
are the girl, Claffe!" he cried trf.
umphantly. Didn't you guess?
Didn't you know? Tell me you can
love me! You must, you must,
Claire!"
"Oh, dol" she sobbed, overcome
by the revulsion. II have always loved
you-always, Philip"
Copyright. 1914. by W. q. Chapman3
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-03-04

@~'sS s'Sssys
Ming TO look quite pretty. Her face
was flushed, and the excitement had
added luster to her eyes and an ex.
pressiveness to her mouth. Miss Ray.
mond was beginning to feel quite
proud Of her appearance.
And then the thought of Philip came
to her. An old maid Of thirty! A
young man Of twenty-eight! What
would not life mean to him If he
could have that three thousand!
She thought Of the drab years be-
hind her, the colorless years that must
stretch before her, away and away.
Little Miss Raymond put her head
down upon her hands and cried.
1T isn't for him." she told herself
defiantly. as she sealed up the type
written letter. ut is for-the sake Of
the girl who isis to take my place."
And little Miss Raymond cried
again. Then. lest the thought of
selfish pleasure should make her re-
pent, she went out quickly and
dropped the letter into the post office
box.
Quixotic? Little Miss Raymond was
made that way. That was why she
had never succeeded In the stern
struggle of life.
She listened from her room next
evening, which was Saturday, to hear
Philips step on the stairs. She was
dressed-in the new suit, an unwar-
ranted extravaganza now-and wait
Ing for him to take her to dinner.
Each paid for his own dinner. That
had been the first test Of their com.
radeship, and he had always respect
ed her independence.
But when he came leaping up she
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-03-04
Knitting a Scotch Invention.

Knitting, at which every woman ia
now getting plenty of practice, is a
Scotch invention of the fifteenth cen.
fury, and Scotch knitted stockings
soon found their way to France. A
guild of stocking knitters, too, was
soon formed, with st. Fiacre as their
patron saint. Hand knitting was not
long left without machinery as a
rival, for 1t was as long ago as 1889
that William Lee invented the knit.
ting frame.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-03-04
PoWderless Gun.

An electric gun, recently invented in
England, aims to put the powder mills
out OF business. This weapon reverses
the usual procedure by pulling the pro.
Iectiie instead Of propell:ng it. This
purpose is accomplished by an inee-
NOUS arrangement of magnet on the
outside of the tube