The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1898-05-26
WOMEN NRtMMERs.
MAKE REouLAR TRIPS FROM
NEW YORK CITY.
What q Man says % it-Triais which
Beet the Piueky Feminias Dru@msr's
way-caaao, treat Hsr Customers as
Men Do


There Is a new profession In the field
for women, and one which. whether Il
requires harder work and more expos
ure or greater amount Of tact and
diplomacy than women generally pos
sess. so far has very few adopts In H.
There are hundreds and thousands Of
women buyers In almost every branch
OF trade. bur few. unless their attention
is called to the fact. know that there
are also women drummers." says the
New York Telegram. Il seems & nat
ural thing for a woman TO go among the
wholesale houses 10 buy. shopping Is
woman's second nature and in many
trades she is much the more compe-
tent 10 choose what shall be worn by
her sisters. Therefore We have come
20 look upon women buyers as a per-
fectly natural outcome OF the greater
Independence OF women. and accepted
them as altogether best the adapted for
that purpose But with the drummer Il
Is another story. Even when women
nowadays do assert an equal right with
men there is a certain amount Of hard
ship and exposure attached 10. the
drummers life which does not seem
compatible with woman's more dell
cate organization. II n true that the
mode OF travelling today Is much more
comfortable than II was ten years ago,
but for all this a drummers life Is far
from being an easy one. There are In
New York city. all told. not more than
a dozen or fifteen women who are
drummers in every sense Of the word
that Is. that they start OF on Ions
trips with sample trunks. go to drum
mers hotels. engage a regular room
set apart for their use. unpack their
samples. set them out 10 the best adj
vantage aud then send word TO the
merchants that they are In town and
ready TO do business Women may be
all very well as far as they 90. a tray-
cling man said. but We have one ad-
vantage over them. and that IL this:
You must nearly always treat the man
TO whom you want 20 sell bill OF
goods. and they cannot very well dc
that so. you see. we have one i'm
mense advantage over them at the very
start. OF course, am not attempting
20 run them down. for some OF then
are very clever and good workers ant
We men help them as much "a posslbl,
and would do anything In the world foi
them II they we're in distress: but ID,
road Is no place for them. and know
what am talking about. / would no
allow relative OF mine TO go out as
drummer. She should scrub floor
first" There Is one woman In the city
widow with three children 20 sup
port. who took her husbands place OF
the road after bis death. He had beer
In the hardware business and had bull
up a splendid trade when the burden o
the famlly's support fell upon hel
shoulders She conceived the idea o.
taking up where her he had left OF ant
offered TO her husbands firm to max,
trips for six months on commission
and II at the end Of that time she sue
ceeded she was 10 be paid her husband'i
salary. Her arst trip was fairly sue
eessful. She interviewed all her hus
bands customers. explained her posi-
tion to them and asked them TO Civ,
her a fair trial. With mems usua
courtesy TO woman In distress thel
agreed to DO what they could for her
She is today in receipt Of the sam
salary paid her husband and is support
Ing herself and children as they wer,
supported before his death"