Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-05-16

bustles because it is my business To- do
50. ~ woman drummer a-- -o-
. - -. we CAP .hus-llg up trade. So
that wneu / come through asa-u DtN-
week 1 can sell my wares.
IL am drummer. went on She.
laughing at my wondering face, who
introduces novelties. Every year some
manufacturer gets out something new
'on a spec, and / am the one thar
brings them before the public. 1 am
the advance agent. so 20 speak OF the
drummer.
Tell me about it, said /. as mysti-
fed as a newspaper woman ever allows
herself 90 be.
~Weu." said my drummer friend 81
will give you an example Suppose @
manufacture has patented q Jew shce
fastener. Hc wants ro seJ 10 on the
market. Tie sends his drummers 90 the
dealer. Vhe dealer says. We have no
cau for a now shoe fastener And h.
refuses Co bus iL And tre mmu1c;-
rrer must either place mis- own agent -n
the store 10 talk up to sao70'rs, or ale
most give away the GOODS the frs, year.
no avoid doing this he sends me out as
the advance ASCENT.
"ust now ] am travelling - % firm
that is making hus-les. The tendency
is bust,evard. but women are not buy
ing them vet They do not ask for
tbom and dealers will not puc chase any
thing that is not called for Here comes
me work of NJ. ScCville.
Al this size whipped cut neat slip
OF cardboard with;
o.. &c &c. o..
: MISS MINNIE SC0NiLLE,
For Whale5one d Co.
Bustles.
..1 create a demand for bustIes. When
Won saw me I was ON my rounds i'm the
y bufdi1g. Tn one hand had list
~ an the Offices where more women
we're employed than men. As soon as
7 gor inside an Office I hurtou-ho.rd the
Al woman and proceeded to show her
SAMPLES of bustles. There are SIX little
ones I'm this bag; and of curse ! Wear
one show the women my hustle and
allow them to- punch me ON the back.
crumple me mp. twist mo around. and do
pretrv much as they please
.yrbaD shake myself ont and show
+bor, how. admirably my skirts hauEs
Win the hustle 90 support Sc. They
osr- ,,bero can we buy such q hustle
and 7 saw mt the stores of a. B. c and
m mentioning merchants that buy OF
me. .,,
+,,,-,, nv btrs+Ies. OF course they have
had orders for th7w-siN girls inquired
for bustIes I'm one doy-and they order
500 or = GOO Of me. according 90 the size
of the stock they carry.
.-rbis is the way 7 create demand
FOR bnst1es. Queer. isn't it it, said she.
"9rd the Cuecrest thinC about it is the
odd times one has ont selling them.
AXE vour case for instance. I must
have cor the floors mixed. and If Won
hadn't hopu there 7 should have found
myself from force Of hahit. talking mp
nv hustle samples to q sedate lawyer"
"Nrc there many I'm your bUsiuess9'
asked.
"Dr you mean in the drumming bus
i"ess9 40. -ot,as many rs Won would
suppose from the money hove is I'm IT,
IaS. year there we've only forty success /
ttl women drgmmeNS Twice thar NUM-
Der started 1u- br- Nither got sick or
Grew tired of the work It is hard. You
travel am NIGHT and llk all day. but
Won con DO it r. Won I'm Nv how Co spare
Yourself 7 can drum IRON May tim
N0y. from che Pc~-Iar : of Maine and
Oregon 20 the Lakes ana Ehe Gulf, with
out stopping off q f7v EeNCeDt TO sell (
goods but YOU see I kr kw what 20 eat
and what 10 let alone ON THE road. and I |
understand how to dr)0p asleep on a |
usin and wake ND freSh and ready to