Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-06-24

Tie word given shove stands for one Of the
chief social plaques Of these last few years.-
Agents are part Ct the genera, status qao
post 5e.Iun. They swarm In every community
ike the frogs Of Egypt, invading every house,
shop aud Office, and buttonholiug unsuspecting
men upon every street corner Their name is
legion, their wares mul,iarous, their '' gentle
manly pertinacity amazing. Books and clothes
ines, pictures and thiil-couplrgs, stencil plates
and recipes for soap, hygrometers AMI mop-pails
newspapers and fire hampers. sewing machines
and life insurance, iaiissoluble cement and in
lellible INK With gsss pens to apply it; and
Whatever else can be copyrighted or patented
sad conveniently Carried about, are offered every
where. and pushed aal praised, anl sold by itn-
Grant hueksrlls. The aAe specimens Of the
ce4us .;ics IKE buns. -ud the femGle-luckily
tl.y age t--7-I.a uo.iHrks whenever a man
tarpsr-- -pas-.fot'en book. or a new notion,
Iader ,ur nose. ,,e alv,s -Cioice, even in the
midst OF cur md -u.;iau. that it is not 4 woman.
st the same tisle vs. r-siiiy c.neeie that wo-
ra-u his the same abstract " licE." to be an
"ogen:" as a man Bu, it costs more, ard
takes longer, 60 get rid Of be-; for sc feel our
selves obliged to use none but the Gentlest and
-1aves- methods, and her persistence IS more
i4au huaan-i, If feminine.
Take NJ yeur newspaper, and le; your eye
an down he long list @: Advertisements, and
,.ds fo- " Agents Behold the inducements
What cl5aiag promise What attractions for
the al Pecunious
$50 day fr al'' SO - day aid expen-
SEES paid 80 " SO TO 500 Pc month and ez-
penses, or commission from bich tioice that
amount can be made "S5 to $50 per day
900 Per cent. profit. No risk" The foregoing
are copies from the first paper We took up, e re-
lgops sheet.
Let US t-y another Of the same stamp. To
besin with, it is agent " Itself for nesrlyeyery-
thing that one can cesire, from teaspoon or
CIRQUE; sci, toa $1,000 piano, paying back 70
the .u5scribers or the :" agent $500 out Of
every S250 This certainly makes the papcr
very cheap But the Advertising columns re-
veal other ways for making money. Here is
90 500 per month sure F." to the vendors Of pa
ten, everlasting metallic clothes lines. Here
i smother like chance of clearing 500 monthly.
&c lady canyassers realize So to SO weekly"
F. e i IA "sgeucy - hgsiness that calls for
hut - to $40 capital, and nets the "sgent
6Iu per cent profit, or from SO 10 $50 per
LAY. No competition and 10 risk Ciergymen,
teachers, sc. wanted. By the way. the help Of
ciergymen is often sought by the book men, by
Offering thea SO, OF some such sun, for every
fifty copies Of = work disposed Of by each and
eve-y agent whom they shall recommend.
q hat marvel that the highways and bypsths
are flied with peripa:etic merchants: g Thir-
,y-dollars per day - How It looks to the
Young man who has now 10 lsbo- month for
the came sum And how to the young woman
who feels this; house work at $500 per week, or
school telching at SIS (without board) is IN
remruerated drudgery. Six huno'red per cent
No Wei. err that they ask US to purchase.
But most of them make no such profits
Some saceeei, not a few fail utterly, very many
make but fair living. The truth is that many
who enter 1fpoa this sort Of work, are wholly
untitled for it. 1t requires q somewhat rare
comb ration Of qualities for it's successful prose
cution But the pity Of it is, laside from the
frequent apnoyances to the non-" agents.