The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-02-04
4 BOOK AGENTS STORY.
a Young Woman Relates Her Dis
- 5lFee able Experiences.
The Door Often Shut In an Agents Face
Experience Meetings OF the Women
"A Premium on Impudenee
and a smooth Tongue.

yxperience Meetings of the von,en
a Premium on Impudepea
and smooth Tongue.
eWhy don't take up boolx-canyass-
iue.as t tired that enee,-and let me tell
You would be a scrubwoman rather
than hook AGENT
She was bright. canable rirl anx-
ians.to rot honest en- nlovment Some.
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hut IN very little else HAD eoyerea
nv expenses and had ahont f;ftv dol
lars besides INT the bum;l;at;on tba
fatigue had undergone. the rebuffs.
eood.nat1red contemnt and insults I
had received were sometl;ne bevon5
calculation
u signed \ contract IL eanvass for 4
l,oJS which so,d Tor two dollars and
bsIf and ,,b;cb .bsol,+alv ,v,s not
s,,rfh Eva conts n was The h;storv
Of a mans life from the cradle 70 the
grave How he was chased NV 4 bnIl
when n how. how he fought. hled and
died in the ebellion-unniti0a
rubbish that nobody wanted to buy.
and nv business was to talk people
tirca rntil they would buy to be rid
Of me.
1xl4s-only to visit offices, banks,
manufactures, etc, never private
houses for there / would encounter
wuu}efa, and you know that. if there is
any creature on earth that woman
hiS no mercy on it's n woman book
agent. III tell you some thing about
that presently
1T was the author of this great lite
rary fort who engaged me to canvass.
He and his wife were the shrewdest of
Shrewd people. They had aIsystem all
their own. They mapped oJfttheir ter
ritdry and divided it up into sections
ard mt a knot of agents here and
there, and then kept an espionage over
them 1hat was worse than the police
system. --s.----4ss-4.s..
II Was required to start out every
morning at eightso'ctock, rain or shine,
wind Or snow. | was given five Offices
and must spend those four hours in
i've ollices-. No matter il ! was told
asa.aAnd again trat my book was not
wanted must keep on talking, talking,
unless / was shown the door, as hap
pes4atEeaee- Twice.
After dinner l started out again,
and il ! did not get ten orders % day ]
was met with considerable GOODNESS and
saFcasm wlien reported once a week
tony employer.
ut was his custom to hold weekly
experience meetings, at which each
agent vas required to rise and state
her eSperience, her WAYS and means of
getting orders, her worst struggle for
name and other odds and ends of in
formation. The girls who had received
tae greatest number OF orders got
pri2csr ese4s44l watches, diamond earrings
and money. The others were reproved
and eXhorted into greater activity.
"Each one had her own particular
story to tell. was educating a little
eu&6 whose parents had adopted me
when was an orphan. Now they had
lost heir money and fwas irving to
rctun their kindness One Of the girls
was supporting her aged arandparents
another wished to finish her musical
edGcalion, and so ON. Ittaxed our in
genu4g sometimes to get up enough
snf'e, to go round. Nice business,
isn't 4, that teaches young girls to get
money under false pretenses?
',ean't begin to tell YOU the experi-
euee had. was persevering and a
giib talker and generally brought
d7or n. NV face-and | didn't blame
ain, In many places book agents are
not allowed to enter / used to hide
r NJ tpob under nv wrap or muff and
SIP n Once | found myself in a long
row Of Offices separated by steel rail-
ings and communicating by gates.
began ito talk in Office; number one.
.Nsen The man rose and without one