_Will they be sedate and serious, As the years speed on apace? Or grow more mature in wisdom, And more matronly in grace? Shall youthful effervescence, Disappear in lightsome gleam, And the "Flapper" be a woman, Yes, the woman of our dream._ --With apologies, J.P. Edmonton Wholesale News EDMONTON wholesale is busy with outfit 1921, getting food supplies ready to ship north. It is with considerable satisfaction we feel that while other houses are slowing down we are obliged to keep going at full speed. MR. JOHN SUTHERLAND, of Fort McMurray, spent several days in Edmonton last month, and MR. H. N. PETTY, accountant at Grouard, has been transferred to McMurray in the transport service. +-------------------+ | VANCOUVER | +-------------------+ [Illustration: _PICTURING a group of H.B.C. Vancouver store elevator operators, with the starter and sentry._ _These young ladies have more "ups and downs in life" than others, yet withal preserve an equanimity and amiability throughout the day that has endeared them to their fellow employees and added much to the popularity of the store._] ========================================== Rest Room Antics AFTER all, associating with the store family day after day is not so unlike going to school, is it girls? There is no pleasanter sight than to watch the younger set enjoying the tripping of the light fantastic toe at the luncheon hour in the employees' rest room. Another pleasant feature of this hour of recreation is to see with what good humour and patience the senior employees gather around the walls in order to allow the young folk scope for using their superfluous energy. Always, too, one or another can be found to play the waltz or two-step for the merry-makers. This is as it should be, and the spirit of "give and take" thus inculcated will be of inestimable service in the building of character. ========== MR. H. T. LOCKYER, our General Manager, was recently made a member of the Vancouver Rotary Club. "He Profits most who Serves Best." MRS. MCDERMID is back in the children's section again after an illness which lasted nearly two weeks. ARE WE, or are we not going to have a cricket club this year? Have we the players? If so, will they organize and get ready for practise? Any employee of the store who wishes to play this year should send in his name to Mr. Winslow as quickly as possible. MISS A. K. SMITH is in England purchasing notions, laces, and other lines for the Victoria store, as well as for her own departments. MR. W. R. BOYLE is in the East making purchases for his department. A line of dresses he bought to sell at $19.75 and $13.95 were sold off quickly. MR. S. D. WILSON is in the Eastern markets after having attended the shoe convention in Milwaukee.