The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-02-12

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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. It does not dsrO-
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 sympathizes with a woman
who is boldly making her way in the
avenues of legitimate business, and adj
mires her, too, for it,"
but all your canvassers are not en-.
dowed with these advantages?"
Certainly not. There are different
kinds of qualities needed for success in
this business as in any other. Perhaps
there is a field for a greater variety, be-
cause there is so many different kinds
of people to appeal to. There are OPP
portunities for energetic women who
they make the most of their advan-
tages. Any business man who engages
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
livings in this way?''
why, there are numbers who have
no need to 90 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 ask? Because
they are like all women; they want
some luxuries that are costly, and they
have the courage to start out and
earn them rather than cucumber their
husbands, or brothers or fathers.
It is only little while
ago a lady came here who was very
well connected and took a canvassing
route. She had seen some costly jew
elry that took her eye and she made up
her mind to possess it. She succeeded,
too, I 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 was sorry for
it, / can tell you. l hope the next
more valuable. There is money in such
a woman"
do not sensitive women fear re-
buffP'
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 refusal it is general
ly a courteous one. The men do not
sometimes fare so well.
Butts there no trouble found in get
ting at many people they wish tc
solicitP'
''Oh, of course. Some men when
they see a woman coming in guess her
business and say they are out. That is
an old trick. and funny complications
often arise from it. One of our ladies,
who twice failed to find a 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 off one canvasser. So he wrote a
letter. I've got it here"
A sheet of paper was laid before the
reporter. Upon it was:
Look here, old Shanghigh, if you come
be business for the Coroner. l won't have
any thing to do with your old prospectus.
And don't fail to recOlleCt il. If you infiict
your bald-headed presence and rum sOdden
cOuntenanee on these premises any more we
will fire you. Remember that. There is no
apprOp riatiOn for crackers and rum in this
establishment for old croakers of your kind.
So lOng!"
The office-boy' handed it to the can
vasser when she called, " the gentleman
continued. ''She is pretty girl, with
a face like a summer day and eyes that
do damage at long range. She never
wilted, but thanked the boy and called
again on the proprietor. He received
her with effusion when he saw her,
and then she laid his missive before
him and said she had notified the Cor
Oner and was ready for him to fire her
He didn't do it, you can bet. He was
clean fioored. When he read the letter
over it somehow seemed to him a trifle
strained and inappropriate. He STAN
| mered an apology and surrendered
right off. We keep that paper, and
she brings it with her when she goes
| after him nowadays. 1t always fetches.
| For he doesn't want the joke to get out,
and a subscription is the price of her
! silence"
do male oanvassers object to female
| competitors"
| "Oh, that is their own lookout. Who
| ever does the best work commands the
| best salary. And / can tell you the
ladies do not get left. They are no
slouches at this business. N Y.
| Herald