Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-07-11
SHE GAVE IT UP.


"Oh, Mr.. Brown" she exclaimed, Eat |
last I'm TO be given my way, and I'm just |
too delighted for anything! I've argued
all along that there was no reason why
couldn't sell goods on the road just as
we'll as IL 1 were man, and the firm has
consented to let me try it If you will lay
out trip for me and give me all the nee
essary pointers in regard to the people,"
The veteran travelling man laid aside
his cigar as a mark of special courtesy and
then got out bundle of time tables and
order books.
you're sure you want to try itP" he
said.
ooh, positive" she replied. "The old
fashioned notions about woman's sphere
are all exploded now, you know, and
there's no reason why shouldn't be as
successful as man."
The veteran travelling man said "An
right" Then he winked one eye at an
other veteran travelling man who was sit
ting at the next desk, and after that he
made out the plan of nice little trip.
"A short one, you know, ;" he explained.
You won't want a long one at first, be-
cause it's apt to be pretty wearing"
81 suppose So, she replied doubtfully,
"but I'm pretty strong and can stand u
good deal of fatigue"
"Well, I'll try to fix It so that you'll get
it," he told her, and he winkod at the
other veteran again. Then ho spread out
the map and ran pencil mark through
the various cities she was supposed to take
in. 1.-THE first one" he said. "is dead
easy. You get there early in the afternoon,
and the only man you have TO sec Is old
Tompkins. He's n mark. He'll start In
u
your line, but If you 20 mt him right YOU
can fix him with about three Ein f!ZZes SO
that you can sell him most luythiIg yOu
want to.
"Thrco whatS"
"Gin fixes. The cid man thinks ihu-c'y
nothing like gin fizz, and II you hrnor
him and tell him that they probably make
finer gin fizz In the hide rlucu neat &c
his store than Is made in all Chicago he'll
warm up to you AMI you can sell. "
But, don't you see, can very well -
THAT'S so. You can't. can yUuy' broke
in the veteran. II never thought of ilat
Well, then, | cant give you any pointers
on Tompkins. You II have TO do the best
you can ON your own hook nut you
needn't waste much time, even " you
don't sell to him You Gun get away In
the caboose of freight train little after
IL o'clock that night and hu III the next
town you want to mako at In tho morn.
ing"
"Three In the morninGi" she exclaimed.
"Why, u
"Oh, of course it's not much fun" in
terrupted tho veteran, but 1t saves you
over half day, and you'll find half days
count on tho road. However, you won't
have the gin Izz question to bother you.
Bob Billings, the only merchant there
who does much in our line, is teetotaler.
But you'll have to load him up with Oh
gars. He thinks that's what travelling
men are for, and he's a regular fond on
the subject of smoking-always trying a
now brand Of tobacco or new cigar OF
some sort. He'll probably have something
| there that Is strong enough to knock down
a horse that he'll want you to try. I've
had to give him more good cigars and
smoke more cheap ones in order to sell
him a-but, wait a minute. Perhaps I'm
getting q little too fast again. Still that's
the only way know of selling him any.
thing, and maybe you'll have to get on tc
the next town without having a chance tC
even get out your samples"
"How can get to tho next town." she
asked in a tone that indicated she was
getting somewhat discouraged.
"Drive over. 1t will only take about an
hour to finish up your business when you
get there, and guess that's good thing
| too, for the man you have to sell to there
has wife who has a jealous disposition
| and fiery temper that are something aw-
full. Every little while she smashes an
| umbrella or something of that sort CvoI
tho head of some woman whom she thinks
has been trying to tiirt with her hus-
band"
"Couldn't skip that town."
Impossible. He's been doing business
with us for eight years, and the firm never
would get over it II we lost his trade.
| However, you can get right out Of town
as soon as you have sold to him, and tell
you the next stop is a hummer. We sell
to three firms there, and the head Of the
| biggest one Is poker fiend from the top
Of the creek. If you want to do business
with him, you'll have TO sit in with his
little party at the hotel, and II the game
breaks up before z a. IN. 1t will be the first
time on record, and II they don't beat
you out Of everything you've got, includ
ing your sample case, it'll be because you
can play poker better than they can and
are on to all the tricks. Why, what In
thunder has become of that woman"
| Then the veteran again winked at the
other veteran, and little later the senior
partner drifted back that way and re-
marked casually:
| IA woman never does know her own
mind, does sheY That little Miss Sweet
| has been trying for two years to get me to
let her go out with sample case, Just to
show the absurdity Of sex distinctions even
in that branch of the business, and now
that have decided to give her chance
she suddenly turns round and declares
that she will resign before she will do such
an unwomanly thing. Oh, these women
are all puzzles-the very worst kind of
puzzlesP'
"Thats what they are," assented the
veteran travelling man.
| Then ha Minkad snYeral times in ranid