. Hardware merchandising March-June 1917. ho were not for-tunate like Granny to have a John. When you get a few hundred men and afew thousand women with the same beein their bonnets, there is going to besomething happening. o-o-o—And it did. o-o-o It was not until a few years after thatit happened, and John helped it to hap-pen, for John took unto himself a wife. The old rag carpet met its Waterloo, forthe two new home builders voted itselimination and forthwith bought a rugto cover the centre of the floor. It was arag rug, though, for in those days theAxminster and Wilton were not commonand J
. Hardware merchandising March-June 1917. ho were not for-tunate like Granny to have a John. When you get a few hundred men and afew thousand women with the same beein their bonnets, there is going to besomething happening. o-o-o—And it did. o-o-o It was not until a few years after thatit happened, and John helped it to hap-pen, for John took unto himself a wife. The old rag carpet met its Waterloo, forthe two new home builders voted itselimination and forthwith bought a rugto cover the centre of the floor. It was arag rug, though, for in those days theAxminster and Wilton were not commonand Johns purse placed the rag limit. But John, dear, what are we going todo with the edge of the floor? said hiswife. Now John hadnt planned on divorcingthe old carpet fi-om the wall without con-sidering the consequences. He paintedthe floor a nice shade that blended withthe rug—wifey was pleased—say, it didlook fine and clean, shone like a niggersheel. o-o-o Every day the little house-keeper wentover the bare floor with a dust rag, or. cleaned the floor ever so often with soapand water—was alright at first, but asdays grew into weeks and weeks intomonths, and the months began to looklike years, many a complaint was regis-tered with loving John—and Johnthought again. o-o-o Being of a rather inventive turn thisyoung home-builder devised a contriv-ance which cut-out the knee-drill andallowed wifey to dust and clean thefloors standing up. It was a mop—amighty crude affair, but a mop just thesame. Then John moved to the city. Here hisnew home, built to his own specifications,was finished with hardwood floors, forMa and Pa were sold on the sanitationidea. They wouldnt bring up the littleJohns and Marys in a home where thecarpet hugged the walls, leaving a har-bor for all kinds of chicken-pox andmeasles microbes. o-o-o Sav, John, somebody has taken youridea. This is what the dutiful husbandwas greeted with one day on his arrivalat home. And Mary went on to tell himabout havin
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