The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-09-29
WOMAN'S WORLD.
a KIND HEARTED DEALER IN "PObL-
TRY, EGGS AND CALVES"

japanese Women Awakening-1E san
lords Operations IL Corbett's Advice tc
vomen-8Tiss Yavv's Phenomenal Voice
Long Stockings Are Doomed.
In Chicago there is woman whose
business cards bear these words: Gen
eraI commission merchant, dealer IN
poultry, eggs and calves =
The address designated on the card is
South Water street, and as we make
our way to the desired number we are
convinced that this woman did not
choose her work with a hope Of any ses-
thetic pleasure in it. A row Of ugly old
brick buildings, n narrow street crowd
ed with wagons and carts, the sidewalk
nearly covered with boxes, barrels and
poultry crates, and an odor Of fish, fowls
and hides pervading the air-al Of
these suggest profit, not pleasure, as the
ruling motive.
When we reach the place, we find a
long, narrow store, whose bare walls
are decorated with caIfskins and whose
other furnishings consist OF boxes and
crates set around in any order con-
venience demands. Not until we reach
the second floor do we find any hint of
the sex of the presiding genius of the
establishment. Here we are invited into
a large, light room, furnished with win
dow shades and pretty floor mating a
couch and table and several chairs and
two large desks. At one Of these sits a
lady of medium height, slender and
somewhat girlish looking who smiling
" consents to tell US something about
the commission business. She tells us
she has been in business three years;
that she usually gets to the store about
IA y T,-r- 2
o'clock, and that she has never taken a
vacation nor been absent from her post
more than half a day at time. She re-
grets that business exacts SO much Of
her time. So, with the noble unselfsh-
ness that characterizes her life outside
Of business, she makes a special effort
to arrange her employees work 50 that
it is possible for them to enjoy more
leisure than she is able to procure for
herself
Nearly all firms doing commission
business employ road man to travel
and solicit shipments of goods, but after
giving that system trial of six months
our informant concluded to undertake
both branches of her business herself
drumming up trade in the country
and selling goods in the city. She now
solicits entirely by mail, and therefore
ducements are offered and how truth
fully the market is reported and is
never embarrassed by the dissatisfaction
among shippers caused by the collapse I
Of hopes inspired by the persuasive elO- T
quence of the solicitor, who led by his
zeal to procure a customer, often mis-
the advantages to be gained. +
That this plan of correspondence sue I
eeeds IS proved by each years increase
0f trade, ard if this merchant continues I
to enlarge her business as she has in the (
past two years she may confidently ex-
Dect to become q rich woman IN the
near future-that is, she might expect
20 be if she were inclined to invest her
earnings in property paying interest
whereas now she puts out most Of her
income where the returns are paid iD
owe and gratitude
But the creditor seems satisfied, and
perhaps her present prosperity and fu-
ure wealth are to be counted ia more
goods than dollars and cents
Boston Woman s Journal.