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The Modern Store

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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
May
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
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THE MODERN STORE

It Has One Department Little Known To Customers.

The great department store of our time has one department usually unvisited by customers, and yet very essential to the good of the store. It is the hospital department. The hospital is a feature of the equipment of the great modern department stores, because experience has proved its advantages. It is not more a mark of humanitarian progress than of commercial sagacity. It is not there for the benefit of customers, though its use would not be denied them. It is there for the benefit of the clerks, a majority of whom are women, and these women are those who almost exclusively use the hospital. It is not an uncommon thing for the young woman employee of the store to sink down exhausted or to drop fainting to the floor. Her shop-mates promptly care for her, and she is assisted to the store hospital where she may rest and have the needed restoratives.

WOMEN THE SUFFERERS.

While the existence of the store hospital points to the sympathy of the management with its employees, it also emphasizes the weakness of the women for whom the hospital is established. Women who work must be prompt and regular in their duties or they are not wanted. The back may ache, every step may jar along the spine until the head throbs pitifully. The reaching up for a box of gloves or the stooping to pick something from the floor may cause acute pain, but the woman behind the counter must hold on until she drops, and she generally does. Then comes the hospital, a brief rest, and some pallative for her present pain. Next month she may repeat the same experience; for it is noted that this liability to physical collapse among women is much greater at certain periods. The hospital is good in its place. But what these women need is health, sound health. And sound health for them means the cure of those womanly diseases which are the primary cause of the physical weakness such women feel.

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THE BEST MEDICINE FOR WOMEN.

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NO NEED TO BE SICK.

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