Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-29

I offer to take her machine for $40 and sell her
| new one for $50 or more. If It's rival machine
| he asks: Don't it run hard? Don't you find
| it noisy and constantly out of order?''
| l admire women who firmly refuses to have
| anything to do with agents and cRnvasseTs, and
| tells them promptly to get out. like the spirit
| of the woman who answers None of your busl-
| ness to the first question the sewing machine
| agent asks. II all women would treat the I'M
lpudent canvassers and agents as they deserve TO
be treated the business would soon be broken
| up. ] say impudent adVisedly, for realize that
| a house to house canvasser can be nothing else
but impudent, no matter how polite he may be
| in making his advances. His presence is an
family. He haslo right in common law. He
| is a trespasser WI he puts his foot on the bot
tom step OF the porch or on tne slI Oh Ine oO0n
should be abated by ordinances or legal enactment
/ of the legislature.
In the big city there is no excuse for the exis-
| tence Of the peddler who goes from house TO
| house. Aside from being a nuisance to house
| keepers, he is q nuisance to merchants, who
keep stores, pay rents and taxes and advertise
their goods. The agent or canyasser rs ped
| der, and nothing more, and he can easily be
duty and save annoyances by refusing to buy
anything except from legitimate business men
at their stores.
a REMEMBERED ToNGUE-LAsHING.
It will take year or more to drive the pests
out of the business, but it can be done in the
city. In the country tina peddler with his psck
is more Of a necessity than nuisance, and peo-
pie will go on encouraging him to the end Of
time. Every woman in the city has been more
or less plagued by fluent agents selling or trying
to sell everything from lamp burners to carpet
sweepers or other labor-saying devices.
A woman without a servant may be called 20
the door dozen times O day by these peddlers
of one thing or another, and angel could not
preserve her temper under the frequent trials
housewives have to undergo. / remember that
the worst tongue flashing 1 ever got was from
woman in Kinney street who came to the door
with dough or her hands and abused me roundly.
By comparing notes at the Office subsequently
learned that she was the wife OF one OF the most
successful and most pertinaciOus agents IN New
ark.
Even she had no sympathy with the business
which gained her bread and butter. I am thank
full that am out of the business now, and sorry
that staid in it for week, for know now that
my face is hateful to thousands OF the best
women in Newark. Horse driving is 3 noble
employment compared with the ''genteeP oe-
cupatiOn Of cSnvassing.
Men who employ canyassers Will tell you mat
not one man in ten succeeds as canVasser
Shall 1 tell you why2 it is because only one
in fifteen or twenty has the efrontery and
impudence to stick to 1t.
The young man with sensibilities soon be-
comes Disguised with the work, not merely
because he is unsuccessful for lack OF impn-
dence, front, - as the old ones call 1t, but
because he has heart in his bosom and is pos
seSsed of something like conscience.
L never put it to people that had = wife and
family depending upon my impudence for a liv-
ing, but that was truly the case. andI am thank
full that they no longer have TO DO 1t.
doubt now that ever could bring myself 70 jerk
door bells again while there was q chance 20
earn an occasional half dollar by shoVeli1g snow
or coal.