The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1888-06-23
HARASSED BY AGENTS.
Woes Of q Weary Woman on Her
Busy Day.
The Fsmals Agent with Corsets and Hose
supportsrs-The Masculine Dealer
who Tried to Dispose OF $50
cial Etiquette"

cial Etiqustts."
1t was Just after Christmas that got
round so that had day to run my can
dies. That was great dav for agents.
too. Agents! Ishould think so. Seems
to me as il all the agents in New En-
gland took y bee line for Potsville.
I'd hurried round and got the wash
in an ironin' an a lot o. bakin' done
up the fust O. the week an Wednesday
/ got up early. ready to make sassage
and run candles.
Tdgot my fat on. an my meat ready
to chop. when there came rap at the
settin'-room door. Before l could get
there, however. it opened. an in
walked fattish kind of q woman.
carryin' sort of leather case in one
hand.
"How d. ye do ma ann" she asked,
talkin' as II her life depended on it,
an never waitin' for an answer.
Amt it a nico day? How's your
healthp Are your folks we'll? Did l
understand from lady up the road
here that you had seven children? How
are they all? Oh! you aren't the one?
Never mind, have here, ma'am"-
she's been unrollin' her leather case all
the time, and here took out roll of
somcthing-"I have here a new style. Of
corset that gives most stylish air to
the stoutest figger. This is the most
remarkable corset ever produced in
this age or any other Why. it makes
a stout person look slim as girl. or a
slim one look nice an plump! should
advise you as friend, ma'am, to buy
this corset. 1t has an electric spring
in the back that will keep you warm in
the coolest day and 30 equalizes the
temperature as to prevent your becom-
ing overheated In the warmest weather.
It has galvanized iron springs in front
that are SO comfortable you'll hate to
take them of at night, while they iin-
part a grace and beauty to the female
figger that is unequalled in the history
of corsets in the past Just let me put
one on you. You've no idea how it
will improve your figger. Why"
just here smell my fat burnin' and
rushed out there in hot haste; but she
follered.
1T win impart a truly marvellous
charm to your manner. and You will be
admired by everybody. You know
men just love an elegant figger."
She said this last in such lacka-
daisacal way it maddened me, and I
broke in:
'.Menr' says /. "Men! an 1 mar
ried womanl What business have
goin' round incitin' the admiration of
menP Hain't l pardnerP Don't he
admire me just as much in loose
calico sack as he would in set of
electric spring, galvanized sheet-iron
corsetsp don't want to hear no more
such talk. an won't, neither"
She see she was on the wrong tack,
70 she begun over again.
well, you wear corsetsa All ladies
do, of course. We SELL"
mo, ma am" says L Il don't wear
corsets. nor never did. Iput on some
once. an felt as i'll been run into q
plaster-o'-paris mold. such AZ they put
on folks with spinal an kindred dis
eases"
20. but these you could wear, Tn
surer' she went on. determined to get
round me some way. you wouldn't
be without them a single day if you
realized how they. would improve your
6gger."
my figger." Invent on calmly pickin'
up my chopin tray, lis just as the
Lord made it II He'd wanted gal
vanized trap around ne, He'd a built
one there to begin with. So long as
He and my johnson are satisfied with
1t. 'be"
She see it wasn't any use to talk cor
set to me any longer. so she got out
some tape stuff and begun again:
LET me sell you some hose sup
porters, them"
''Hoes-supporters," says !. Good
land! what won't they get up nextP
Why, John alters keeps his hoes hung
up in the shed chamber through the
winter. till plantin' time: and then he
supports them himself-except when
the neighbors come up an lean over
the fence to talk politics. Idon't think
he'd think necessary to buy any hoes
supporters
The woman laughed and said in .
good-natured way that she guessed We