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to raise most of their own food and make their own clothing, 

 and get along without many things we now enjoy. Many of 

 us have luxuries now which kings and queens did not enjoy 

 a century ago. 



On what conditions do we get things from the store? 

 How do people get money now to buy so many things? 

 Develop in a simple way the^dvantages of division in labor, 

 showing how much better it is for a man to work at one 

 thing and get money enough to buy many things, than it is 

 for him to try to raise and make everything himself that his 

 family needs. In olden times there was but little money, 

 and so the people could not buy so many things. 



LESSON IX 

 SOURCES OF SUPPLIES FOR THE STORE 



Does the merchant raise or make what he sells? Where 

 do most of the grocer's supplies come from? Where, for 

 example, does he get his flour? grain? potatoes? fruit? 

 vegetables? cheese? vinegar, etc. ? On what condition does 

 he get these things from the farmer or producer? Does 

 he sell them to us for the same price that he pays the farmer ? 

 Why not? Why are we willing to pay the storekeeper 

 more than he pays the farmer for the things we buy 

 of him? 



Does the farmer sell all that he raises? Why does he sell 

 only the surplus? What, then, does the farmer have to 

 buy? How does he get the money to buy these things with? 



The pmpfls should visit a store and notice the kinds of 

 goods sold. They should learn where the goods come from, 

 and how the storekeeper gets them. They will soon 



