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market for all sorts of clothing, equipment, toys, furniture, and other things. It
also means a sizable market for equipment, clothing and supplies for the
mothers. It remained for a woman to think up a service that would appeal to
the majority of these two million mothers. She knew that they would like to
find someone who would relieve them of the incessant laundry work
connected with the baby’s first year. She talked the idea over with her
husband, Albert Lau. He was skeptical at first, but decided to give it a trial.
The Dy-Dee Wash, Inc., Chicago, was the result.

The service appeals to practically every woman with a tiny baby. The
company is developed somewhat on the towel supply service idea. It supplies
the babies’ napkins, calls for the soiled laundry and leaves the clean
“necessaries.” Naturally a business such as this must be built on the basis of
absolute cleanliness and sanitation. A trip through the plant of the Dy-Dee
Wash proves beyond a doubt that these two requisites are not just slogans,
but absolute facts. So successfully has this idea taken hold that over a dozen
branches of the Dy-Dee Wash are now in operation. These are not branches
in the real meaning of the term as each plant is independent of the parent
plant. The operators of the branches merely pay for the privilege of using the
Dy-Dee license.

This money-making business is another proof that where there is a genuine
need for a service in a community, the man or woman who undertakes to
provide that service economically and efficiently will soon be on his way
toward making his first thousand dollars and many more thousands.

Put a Billiard Table in a Store

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HEN a tenant operating a cigar store in a building owned by H. L. Martin,
Columbus, Ohio, renewed his lease for only one-fourth of the store, Martin
was worried. It was almost impossible to get store tenants at that time. No
one seemed willing to rent the rear of a store, and Martin soon gave up hope
of finding a tenant. Then he considered the possibility of profitably using the
space himself.