Show 4 SMALL STORES BOOMING certain retailers have not been injured by great enterprises when a while ago the great stores had sq increased in size and in the multiplicity of things they dealt in that they could supply about every human requirement said a city dweller some people thought that the day of the small tore store keeper was over that the little storekeeper compete with the big one but the small store Is still stiff doing business I 1 see now a as 11 many of them it if not more than ever before and ind at this at first I 1 wondered but I 1 don dont t wonder so much now since our baby came of course I 1 don t refer here to grocery stores and butcher shops and various smaller stores furnishing food supplies which must always remain everywhere I 1 am speaking ot of those other many smaller stores supplying dry goods and fancy goods and hardware and these are the little stores that were to be put out of business but which do not seem to have gone and what has the baby to do with all this 7 tell you the mother with a young child whether she Is with or without servants sticks pretty close to home the better to look after the baby a wel fare for her minor shopping anyway she doesn doean t go far she finds that in her nei neighbor gibor hood tre are many little shops where they sell many things and if she finds these places to be nice little shops where they keep nice things selected with taste and judgment she keeps on buying there steadily there are thousands of such shoppers scat seat everywhere about the city making business tor for the neighborhood shopkeeper the great stores do a great business whose vast volume an dually increases but there appears still to be room for the little storekeeper too it if he will make his store and his goods attractive and do business la in a really businesslike way |