The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-03-02

whom all those resources OF rhetoric
and optics would soon be brought 70
bear Then he scoosted the gentleman
who owned and operated the line Of
female canvassers and asked where he
got most of his recruits.
From the very best kind of people,"
said the manager Of this aggregation
of tongues and eyes. mo one else
would do. You will find that all those
ladies are people of culture. Many Of
them are highly educated. Some have
been brought up in affiuence. How do
they come to canvass, you asks That
is easily told, There is no country in
the world that witnesses SO many vicis-
situdes of fortune as this, and none
where q woman has 80 manv ways Of
earning an independence. Your woman
of spirit does not sit down and SWIVEL
when she finds herself without means,
or look to her relatives for precarious
living, which is often yielded pretty re-
luctantly. She buckles on the srrnor
and starts out to fight her own battles.
Thank goodness, our American women
are not hedged in by the restraints that
are somewhere imposed on the sex.
They can do business with business
people without detriment to their WON.
anhood.
"They can 60 about with nearly all
the freedom of q man without suffering
social outlawry. They know this and
they act upon it. There are hundreds
of women who could not earn their
salt at sewing, embroidering, teaching
or music. They have brains and tact,
though. and they use them. They be-
come canvassers, and often great deal
better ones than the men. There GER
tainly is nothing reprehensible in their
calling at purely business place on
matter of business. 1t does not dero-
gate from their ladylike qualities an
iota. In fact, the more womanly they
are the better they succeed. There is
as much buncombe about woman stick
ing TO her sphere as there is about her
getting into the other sex's, and there
is not a sensible man on the top of the
earth but svmpathizes with woman
who is boldly making her way in the
avenues of legitimate business, and ad-
mires her. too, for it,
but all your canvassers are not en-
dowed with these advantagesr
Certainly not. There are different
kinds of qualities needed for success in
this business as in any other. Perhaps
there is q field for greater variety, be-
cause there is so many different kinds
of people to appeal to. There are OPP
portunities for energetic women who
are not gifted mentally to get along If
they make the most of their advan-
for N haros xuk
them should have tact enough to dis
criminate and assign each to class of
people to which she is adapted"
''Do most of the ladies make their
Gvings in this wayf"
why, there are numbers who have
no need TO go into the business at all.
They are quite comfortably situated.
Some OF them, indeed, belong to families
that are quite well to do. What makes
them canvass, then. You aska Because
they are like sll women; they want
some luxuries that are costly, and they
have the courage to start ont and
earn them rather than cucumber their
husbands, or brothers or fathers.
1t is only little while
ago q lady came here who was very
Gil SohhCCtCo anu gOOk % CouNdSSlnS
route. She had seen some costly jew
elry that took her eye and she made up
her mind to possess il. She succeeded,
too, can tell you, She worked like
beaver and turned in list of patrons
that fairly dazzled me. In less than
no time she had her coveted ornament
Then she stopped, and 1 was sorry for
it, / can tell You. hope the next
thing she takes fancy to may be a bit
more valuable. There is money in such
woman"
do not sensitive women fear re-
buff?'i
That's where they have the best of
the men. No one but brute will be
harsh to an honest woman, They
need never fear insult from gentlemen,
and very soon they come to know that
If they meet with a refusal it is general |
ly courteous one. The men do not |
sometimes fare so we'll"
''Butis there no trouble found in get |
ting at many people they wish to
solicit?"
"0h, of course Some men when
they see q woman coming in guess her |
business and say they are out. That is |
an old trick. and funny complications
often arise fromit. One of our ladies,
who twice failed to find downtown |
merchant, left a note for him stating
her business, but not giving her name.
He read the note, and, not Knowing the |
sex of the writer, thought he would /
kill of one canvasser. So he wrote
letter. I've got it here"
A sheet of paper was laid before the
reporter. Upon it was:
Look here. old shanghieh, IL you come
nonkeyinE around here ans more there will l
be business for the Coroner. wont have
any thing to. with yonr old prospectus.
your bald beaded presence and rum sodden 1
eountenauce on these premises any vaoro We
win IRE 1uu.o Remem Der that T1ere u no
appropriation for CRACKERS and ry1m in this i
establ snment for old croakers OF POUR kind.
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