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Show ' SMALL STORES BOOMING. Certain Retailers Have Not Been Injured by Croat Enterprises. HUM "When, a while ago, the great stores bad aq 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 email storekeeper store-keeper waa over, that the little storekeeper couldn't compete with the big one, but the small atore Is still doing business. I see now as many of tbem 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 store and butcher shops and varloua smaller atoree 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 an hardware and houaefurnlahlngs. These sre the little stores that were to be put out of business, but which do not seem to have gone. And what haa the baby to do with all this? I'll tell you. "The mother with a young child, whether she Is with or without servsnts. sticks pretty close to home, the better to look after the baby's wet- ' far. For her minor shopping, anyway, she doesn't go far. She finds that In her neighborhood neighbor-hood t'are are many little ahops where they sell msny things, and If she finds these places to be Bice little shops, where they keep nice things, selected se-lected with taste snd Judgment she keeps on buying there steadily. "There are tbousanda of such shoppers scattered scat-tered everywhere about the city, making buslneso for the neighborhood shopkeeper. The greet stores do a great business, whose vast volume annually an-nually Increases, but there appears still to bo room for the little storekeeper, too. If he will make his store and his goods attractive, and do business In a really businesslike way." |