The times., 1900-03-18
THE NEW EN- DLEss CHAINS.
Mrs. EIi>"n Fails to Take Advantage
Of Great Offer.

OF a Great OGcr.
Mrs Rliyou said TO Mr Bixon, when he
arrived home from The ofHce that night:
DO you remember the people who lived
at the corner On y Street before we moved
away
No" said Mr.. Blixon, but why?"
You don't remember their name. nor
who they were. nor anything about them?'
No. Tney had a big. illmannered
dog.
Nothing else?"
No"
We'll do. remember that their name
is FrocRmore and that the woman wore
black always for a sister OF his or hers.
Well. she called this morning This with
an air OF triumph
she called 10 show me how TO get a
s. silk shirt waist for "a cents
Mr.. BlNCH veE,ured no remark. either
of questioning or cTeduity. He guessed
that Mrs BiiNon had not invested the 20
cents. and was content 10 wait quietly for
the confusion Of Mrs. Frockmore when
Mrs BliXon should explain more fu ly.
'It is q new plan" said that lady. Il
give Mrs. FroCkmore 20 ceGts- She seads
it. with a dollar more. collected from five
other women 10 a company. with all OF
our names. In return she receives from
the company her -hirt waist and We all re-
ceive books containing six coupons each.
We then 20 out among our friends and do
what Mrs. FrocEnore has done. When
He have secured six subscriptions we hll
he coupons out with names, send on tie
money. and receive our shirt waists too.
1T is great plan 10 get a shirt waist
cheap but would not do what she has
done. Why. she had to enquire OF the
fra-Hrrug 10 gra Lr-
we mad moved. She said so. We hardly
nodded the entire wear we lived in the
block. / did ask her about her baby once
when she was sitting on the porch with
il last summer as ] passed. It's won
derfui, isn't it, the things that some
women viii do?
she sent up her card. didn't remem-
Der who she was for a moment, but went
down. She said it was too bad We hadn't
been letter acquainted in X Street We
talked a few minutes about the babies
and I wondered why she had called. Then
she told me.
d" one Of the objects OF my call today, !
she said. is to tell YOU how TO get fine
shirt waist for 20 cents. ! know it's no
fraud, Tor ] have one from the company
already. ] am getting another now for
mother
And what did you say to her." asked
Mr.. Blixon
Il told her ! did not believe ! was on
sufficiently friendly terms with six peo-
pie TO carry out my part Of The plan.
Surely you must have six friends she
said. And then She went away.
"IJ is very interesting Mr. BlixOn
said. Mrs Frockmore's cali, mean.
The plan 7 know. ! was also introduced 10
1t today 4 man down town tried TO in
same way. Man ! meet at my lunch place.
Told me ought not TO eat pie 50 often,
one day The only time he ever spoke to
me before
The plan is simple. Il is a kind Of
every man his own-Franklin Syndicate
game. Il is an over the country. Shirt
waists and skirts. bicycles, automobiles.
fountain pens and white elephants are
only a Few OF the things you can get for %
cents or s..
There are several objections TO g. how
ever one of them you have explained. j
ttmpts a certain class Of persons 10 call on
one when they wouldn't call otherwise
This is really perhaps the chief objection
The others an have TO do with its dishon-
esty.
THE plan is not usually worked as Mrs
FrockmOre worked 30. The fellow that
'braced me didn'; ask for my s. but told
me 10 send il 20 the company myself. lie
viii have 20 wait FOR his reward until AL Of
his friends send their money TO the com
pany. Some OF them may never send and
be will lose his bicycle. Mrs Frockmore's
plan is the best Tor her She has he hand
ling Of the money She makes sure Of her
shirt wais; as soon as she secures her sub
scribers providing -he compan, does not
fail And IL 10y any chance she fails 10 iii [
out her coupons. 81 is nos impossible tina: /
She may keep the money she collects 10 /
pay her for her trouble
The company wins anyway. ID sells lis
silk shirt waist which probably costs it
about So cents for S1.a0. il never sends /
out a shirt waist uutU ID receives It's Sl-20
from Mrs Frockmorc OF from her six
friends And when. as must happen in the
large majority OF cases, an Of the people do
not send on their money. it pockets what is
sent in aud keeps !hc shirt waist 100
only suppose the shirt waist scheme
10 succeed perfectly suppose that Mrs.
Frockmore finds six subscribers and gets
her shirt waist for % cents. and that
each Of the six finds six more. This will
mean six shirt waists and thirty-sx new
agents al work for the company. Sup
pose no one falls out on the endless chain
1T would only lake a short time for all
the women n the world including the
friends would enlist PIG new
They would drum mp l.2sG
others. shirt waists FOR these ,24G ladies'
could only be- secured by interesting 7,77G
ladies iu the plan. The next remove would
De 10 656. and the next 279 s36. Only
eight steps away from Mrs. Frockinore
] 67q SD ladies and children would be en-
listed. and another step would make the
number 10 077 $50 Before the next step
could b. taken American ladies would |
have 10 send to their friends in Europe
for there are not 60 000 600 females in
Guiding babies, in the United States.
Three hundred and sixty millions and odd !
would be the eleventh link in the chain
and more than i00. .O00 000 persons would
constitute the twelfth link. Before this
was reached the ladies Of this world
would have TO answer the question il the
planets are inhabited and draw upon
them for recruits
Mrs Blixon smiled.
Mrs Frockmore would see them all II
necessary she said.
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