St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-14
SHE HAD A LITTLE LIST.
One of Her Victims Didn't Know
#, However-A Story from the

One of Her Victims Didn't Know
IT, However-A Story from the
Hub.
Boston Transcript.
1t seems that the business of collect
ing subscriptions is no exception to the
rule that there are tricks in every trade
A man or woman with a gift for the
business may collect of the same men at
least twice as much as another would.
A little incident will Illustrate.
They were getting up subscription a
little while ago for the Home for De-
cayed Apple Women. There is no more
deserving institution. as everybody
knows, than the Home for Decayed
Apple Women; and moreover, an
influential coterie of Back Bay
women, headed by Mrs. Charity
Drummup, had become interested
in the home, and were pushing the
subscription. When Mrs. Charity
Drummup sails into a counting room
with a subscription paper i'll her hand,
the bankers and men of business know
perfectly we'll that it is of no possible
avail for them to turn her a cold
shoulder, unless they are anxious to
lose caste or custom among the wealthy
circle which revolves around her.
Down town there are two solid men
in business, one as a retailer In a large
way, and the other as financier, who
are very good friends. The financier is
mercurial, eXcitable, and passes for a
free-handed, generous sort of person.
The merchant is phlegmatic and slow,
and has the reputation of being very
shrewd and close in money matters.
Well, when Mrs. Charity Drummup
came down in behalf of the Home for
Decayed Apple Women, she made one
of her calls upon the flnancier and
promptly showed him paper, already
signed by at least a dozen bankers, mer-
chants and other wealthy men; and
upon this paper there was not a single
subscription for less amount than $50.
you see what they're all doing"
said Mrs. Charity Drummup, with an
engaging smile.
The financier gave low whistle.
Nothing but $50 subscriptions, eh?"
he said. ''Well, I'm afraid this is
little too steep for me. You are quite
right. Mrs. Drummup, in assuming that
| should not care to lead the break-off
into smaller figures; but, see here, is
this the only paper you have got. Mrs.
Drummup"
"The only one," said the lady. with
little confusion. ''Why, this is the sub
Scription paper, sir"
''But is it the only one you have got!"
Pressed for an answer, Mrs. Drum
mup produced from her reticule paper,
upon which there were several $25, $40
and even So subscriptions.
.Ah. this looks more like it," said
the tinaneier. You may put me down
there, if YOU please, for S25." And he
went down there, high up on the list.
That night the fnancier and the mer
chant met at the club.
"Well," said the merchant. "did you
have Call from Mrs. Drummup to-
day?"
ayes"
"Stuck you for $50, SUPPOSED"
"Oh, no; | only gave S25."
"What? Why. there wasn't a single
subscription on her list for less than
s5O!"
mot on the list she showed you. my
friend; but you should have called for
her other paper"
He explained the scheme to the close
fisted merchant, who became fairly
black in the face with chagrin. He felt
that he had been overreached; and the
financier. who seemed to have come in
for share of his wrath, is of the opin-
ion that he did not sleep that night, and
that it was, indeed, several days before
he regained his usual calm.