Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-10-16

LOOKING OVER THE MATRIMONIAL PAPER
Looking over our home paper l found
q column Of advertisements offering EN-
paoyrnent at ones own home. and stating
without equivocation that from g 10
t23.30 per day would 30 paid % willing
AID Intelligent young men. was will
ing-haye always been so regarded-and
intsiligeut-even ten years ago, with no
advantages at all, was Intelligent
and SO l wrote 10 a number of these
men They said that / could easily
make FROM $500 TO $500 per month with
cut publicity, and some advertised to
pay that amount-an way.
These men lied
Most u them said they would place a
large fortune at the disposal Of most any
young man Of good habits Ny habits
are good enough for me, and so pen
ciled of letter 20 ten or q dozen Of
these men who wanted TO do good.
Que man sent me q printed leeeer and
pictures Of scroll saw with which
was to make $40 per day at my own
house, and as I already had a piece IN
my scrapbook telling how TO live on
niue cents q week l felt sure that
eo,h accunulaee considerable means
by Cr1is1mns, but had TO send to New
York for desins-several Of these were
d-signs this man had on the public-and
then had 10 buyiumber. Thenwhen
xoe at IL thwe were days and days that
I dish1o< make over tie. Imade holly
whatnot and tried 10 sell II. but all my
near neighbo have all the whatnots-
or what's not rather-that they require,
aud so had 10 go some distance from
home; but money was scarce, and so at
last had TO exchange 10 for nights
lodging among the peasantry east OF
Potato hill.
Some of the propositions made me by
these men were scandafous. Most Of
them lived in New York. One man
wanted me % take hold of sleight OF
hand outfit he had and sell il among the
yeomanry Of Buncombc county; also
To handle false rnoustache and a sub
own worst enemy.
Two hundred dollars per week At your own
hosar. light employment. no publicity. For
lars. No capitafreaufrei.
This was one of the advertisements
that 1 answered.. enclosing 81 for In
structious." [ got circular saying that
the above wages would be paid 10 good.
active. conscientious man who would
bo willing to give massage treatment to
plumbers who need artificial exercise.
Much suffering" said the circular. lis
noted m the sbodes of wealth among
plumbers who viii not take exercise.
They are willing 10 pay almost any
price rather than exert themselves.
You can PRACTICAL name your own fig
urea
One man wanted me 20 introduce q
potato bug destroyer which cost very
little. never failed and required very
little capital Nine dollars would huy
the prospectus and sample with instruc-
tions. Osher farmers I End now have
received the same thing II consists OF
two Pbilsdeiphia pressed bricks-num-
bered one and two. The instructions
say. place thu bug on No /. and then
bv pressing on him with No. 2 death
viii in rFst eases euste.
( hare people who viii do that way 70
total stranger.
Fodder Is mostly pulled now. and
sveet potatoes in North Carolina have
arrived at their maturity. The hight
min. h-g now and then II night gltm-
r,ers painfully. and with an effort like
Bug hxht IN Boston hsreor IN fog.
lis davs are gliding swiftly by.
cften think how many Of "a there
ars Ike the lightning hng. In hfe's
bright summer time We "joggle 'em uP,
A. pr Par,lae SAYS with lavish hand.
bsst when safurn comes where are we
A each wear gees slowly past the
GRAND st,s,d where our lives are being
reviewed. va notca that we 10 rot ly
81 high. and there Is kss glirumer under
eur wings. L.ocking hack over my own
pa=t sae isow bas headed have been.
snd isnpnlsive too
That - the reason wss expelled from
VIE. was too irnnulsive. The presl-
dent .s,id me- I could not seeD NJ VITA
~ classes unless I burned more mid
r. st Oh. aud none q the stores kept il
shere. and a. came away.
70 vas tke same as P~snsetea- We
hi the same trcnisle svsr lights. DR..
n Gosh sid talked 100 rslrch threugh
nv hat he then rad me expelled
.haui,s have ts-sss7 mere ,sareful ard iess
fr.sh. can sea IL new Oh. bow bit
terlv We bewaii these Fst opportunities
-han Il - ia ia1ei IL tad hDlshsSi