The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . to hardware and tools, to household uten-sils and domestic appliances, to lamps, china andglass, and every other Interest, the proprietors andclerks all thrown out of busineiss, and the ownersof hundreds of buildings formerly used as stores de-prived of their rents for seven or eight years untilmatters were rearranged, under the conditions ofwhat was called an age of progress. If our legis-latures at that day only had had the foresight tohave passed license laws covering each d
The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . to hardware and tools, to household uten-sils and domestic appliances, to lamps, china andglass, and every other Interest, the proprietors andclerks all thrown out of busineiss, and the ownersof hundreds of buildings formerly used as stores de-prived of their rents for seven or eight years untilmatters were rearranged, under the conditions ofwhat was called an age of progress. If our legis-latures at that day only had had the foresight tohave passed license laws covering each distinct lineof business, these department stores, having undertheir control one hundred lines of business, wouldhave had to pay one hundred licenses, and this mighthave been on a rising scale of costs, according tothe number wanted: this might have arrested thecommercial revolution. The young man aid: Well, that was before mytime. I never knew anything else than the methodof the present day, where everything from longskirts for the new-born babe to wheel chairs andcrutches for the old man are all sold under one. Pan of Folnsettla. Grower Hale, Oratig;e, N. J. roof, foods and package medicines, luxuries andnecessities, all displayed under the most attractiveconditions of association with music and flowers,pictures and statuary, all tending to develop an in-tense desire in the mind of every man and womanto purchase things beyond the limitations of theirpurses. He added: That is our game. The mad-dened throng will purchase anything; the greaterthe crush, the quicker the sales. He further remarked that for three months inthe year he was assigned to the seed department,which had developed to an astonishing degree, bothin counter and in mail-order sales. Why, he said,I know a department store in Chicago with twenty-five millions in paid-up capital, which has issuedover one million catalogues, and this year, it is said,will issue two millions of one thousand pages each,these mailed al
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