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

Well iy does lock fresh as daisy,
said be, and IT you'll come IN. liz g=-
Clo i1r my wife. anyway, So she can
look decent when we 80 -clVe.i-s this
summer i sold him hundred dozen
before let so of him.
THE brightest lit.'5 drummer on the
coast" sai- she. lis ka,e TODD. She
introduces shell novelties. and confines
her route to the Atlantic and Pacific
cities, except one tour a year. when
size ,3kes i'm all the interior places. She
is bright because she is 50 clever.
Now, I've got TO tell you what l
mean. Well Kate Todd can sell shells
WHOM the res of us would have 10 eat
them to- du mp on. We would sJarye
whore she lives like a NikGdO. She is
clever.
Kate Tcdd is a woman drummer
who makes her customers call on her
When she sets iu town she gees 10
Che best hr.el aGC calls for blue room.
She gets orc q pale sea color, if she can.
Then she uup.cks her truck and fur
L.s her room viii novelties. When
she Gets through she has he sweetest
little sylvan retreat you ever SOW.
There Gre shells banked i'm the fire
place shells ON the mattel, shell clocks
ticking hc-e and there shell vases hold
i-s mp sea grasses, shell shades for cleo
Uric lights, and she'll Jables-a most be-
w.lderiug array of the pink and blue sea
things. all of pearl and all giistening
like cut glass.
con the QUeerest shell book she sends
ont BIER viati0us naming the hour
for the buyers TO call. and when they
sl away. Rates room is stripped Of Che
shells. The buyers have begged her
for the vases I'D take hCmc-ald OF
course they have purchased supply
foc the store. That is the way she
works
Mary ZiUtel is another clever drum
NOR. She takes mp the prosy things.
She is ON now with criss-cross wash
board that can be let out or shortened
Up. warranted 10 tjt any tubs ard any
arms. never wears out. and takes the
dirt out with one rub. She rolls up
her sleeves and washes. right in the
ore. and begs for the dir,iest towels.
Once I'm q while. when they give her
one stained with shCe-blackecing or ink
She slips I'M "a l,-le acid, because no
mortal hands could rub ou- such spots
as that She is 50 energetic that she
has avsra1ed q thousand boards day
since moving time began When she
GETS through with wash-bCacds she will
take up a magic mop and then a dish
pan chat washes and rirses the dishes.
She sells good things, too Mary does.
And the smarteSt manufacturer in the
world couldn't fool her into starting out
with ANYTHING that wouldn't wear
DO know any other women drum
uers9 Yes. 7 know Kittie Murphy,
the cuuniugest little ribbon drummer
YOU ever saw. She wears her goods
around her neck and shows her custo-
mers how pretty a satin striped ribbon
can look with a velvet skin anc irish
blue ewes. And I krOw a girl Tno Is
beginning 60 sell horses. Describes
th5ir points and gets an order for he
horse If satisfactory on his ARRIVAL
here. She is doing well.
lis my work the easiest Of al? Nc,
don't think it is. because there IS -
much uncertainty about novelty. But
If YOU really feel Interested il women
drummers and want TO help me along
please so in the next mop y III see and
ask for a hustle. Il WI pick up my
branch of trade amazingly
CONSTANCE MERRIFIELD.