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Show 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 storekeeper store-keeper was over, that the little storekeeper couldn't compete with the big one, but the small store Is still doing business. I see now as many of them if not more than ever before; and at this, at first, I wondered; but I don't wonder so much now, since our baby came. "Of course I don't refer here to grocery stores and butcher shops and various smaller stores furnishing fur-nishing food supplies, which must always remain re-main everywhere; I am speaking of those other many smaller stores,' supplying dry goods and fancy goods anJ hardware and housefumlshings. 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? I'll tell you. "The mother with a young child, whether she Is with or without servants, sticks pretty close i to home, the better to look after the baby's wel- j fare. For her minor shopping, anyway, she ' doesn't go far. She finds that in her neighbor- j hood t;re 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 se-lected with taste and judgment, she keeps on buying there steadily. "There are thousands of such shoppers scattered scat-tered everywhere about the city, making business for the neighborhood shopkeeper. The great stores do a great business, whose vast volume annually an-nually increases, but there appears still to be room for the little storekeeper, too, if he will make his store and his goods attractive, and do business in a really businesslike way." |