Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-02-20

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 atiluence. How do
they come to canvass, you askp That
is easily told, There is no country in
the world that witnesses so many vicis-
studes of fortune as this, and none
where a woman has SO many ways of
earning nm independence. Your woman
of spirit does not sit down and snivel
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 armor
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 wom-
anhood.
"They can 20 about with nearly all
the feeedom of 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 canyassers, and often great deal
better ones than the men. There GER
tainly is nothing reprehensible in their
calling at a purely business place on a
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 sympathizes with a 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 advantagesP
Certainly not. There are different
kinds of qualities needed for success in
this business as in any other. Perhaps
there is field for greater variety, be-
cause there is so many different kinds
of people to appeal to. There are op-
portunities for energetic women who
are not gifted mentally to get along if
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 wayP"
"Why, there are numbers who have
no need to go into the business at all.
They are quite comfortably situated.
Some ofthem, indeed, beleng to families
that are quite we'll to do. What makes
them canvass, then, You ask? Because
they are like all women; they want
some Inquiries that are costly. and they
have the courage to start out and
earn tlybn rather tlrsn encrffbrf 'Their
husbands, or brothers or fathers.
1t is only little while
ago a lady came here who was very
well connected and took q 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, 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. | hope the next
thing she takes fancy to may be a bit
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 a 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 NEE. with refusal it is general +
y courteous one. The men do not
sometimes fare so well.
"Butis there no trouble found in get J.
ing at many people they wish to
solicit?"
"Oh, of course. Some men when .
hey see woman coming in guess her
business and say they are out. That is
IN old trick, and funny complications
lften arise from it. One of our ladies,
Who twice failed to find a downtown
merchant, left note for him stating
Ter business, but not giving her name.
lie read the note, and, not knowing the /
lex of the writer, thought he would
kill off one eanvasser. So he wrote a
etter I've got it here.
A sheet of paper was laid before the
'eporter, Upon it was:
Look here, old Shanghigh If you come
around here any more there will
'e business for the Coroner. l won't have
my thing to do with your old prospectus
Ind don't fail TO recollect IL. If you lnfiict
our bald headed presence and rum-sodden
ON thesespTsrtSes any more we
will fire YOU. Rerlembe that There is no
appropriation for crackers and rum i'll this
blshment for old croakers of your kind.
10 longl"
'The ef1ice-boy handed it to the can.
Tasser when she called, " the gentleman
continued. "She is.a pretty girl, with
face like SUMMER day and ewes that
10 damage at long range. She never
vilted, but thanked the boy and called
gain on the proprietor. He received
Ter with effusion when he saw her,
md then she laid his missive before
lin and said she had notified the Cor.
ner and was ready for him to fire her
lie didn't do it, You can bet. He was
lean floored When he read the letter
ver il somehow seemed to him a triiie
trained and inappropriate. He STAN
nered an apology and surrendered
light off We keep that paper, and
he brings it with her when she goes
fter him nowadays. Tt always fetches, y
or he doesn't want the joke TO get but,
nd subscription is the price. OF her
ilence.n - "a
"Do male canvassers object to female
s..si'
"Oh, that is their own lookout. Who. I
yer does the best work commands the
est salary. And l can tell you the
aides do not get left. They are no
touches at this business. ~ T. I
Ierdld. -
"A soldier. w. p. Moore, was
obbed of eighteen dollars and fifty