The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1900-02-20
WOMAN'S WORLD.
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n COOPERATIVE MARKETER.
One Woman Earns Good Salary buying
For Many Families.

For Many Families.
There are fourteen families for
whom 1 market and my salary for the
work is $500, Miss Elizabeth Arnold
admitted when approached and asked
to talk about her work. ''I may or
may not he the only cooperative mar
keter, but il there are others ! have
never heard of them.
"I began with three families,
friends, who agreed to allow me to do
their marketing and profit by the per
cent. which | could induce the market
men to allow, after the manner of n
shopping agent. That plan didn't
work so well and L finally induced
them TO try me for six months on a
salary-Sl0O. At tho end of the time
agreed upon ell the parties concerned
myself iucluded-wers so we'll
pleased with the result that l con
tracted for year.
Realizing that the larger TIC quau-
ties of provisions / could buy the
cheaper they would be, / set about to
find other patrons. l succeeded in
getting ten families on the same terms,
and since that time four others have
been added to my list These last al
ditions | would like to say, however,
came to me. / did not solicit their or
ders, because l really did not care TO
take more than ten.
My work is SO systemahzed that |
can tell you just how l manage it now,
though when L first began I fancy 1t
would have been difficult to make any
one understand my many maneuvers.
First, of course, ! visit each pa.
tron, and find ont just what they wish
for the next day. Next morning / go
to the market with my lists, examine
meats, fish, vegetables, fruits or what
ever am to buy, and give ny orders.
OF course / see that every article is
tho very best Of its kind, and buying
in such large quantities the dealers are
willing TO allow me the discounts they
give small dealers. My patrons get
the benefit OF this discount, so. of
course, their supplies como to them
cheaper. Besides n reduction in price
10y buying at tho market Instead Of the
corner grocers, they get everything as
fresh as it can be bought, and have n
much greater variety 10 select from.
Certainly my experience tells, and
| am better able to select good pro
visions than the average cook or even
mistress, though it is very seldom these
days that either of them 60 to market.
As rule they content themselves with
ordering through their grocer and
butcher and take whatever he brings
them at whatever price he charges.
''My work, as rule, is all done in
the morning before 10 o'clock. Gen
orally my actual marketing Is over at
$50 o'clock; then / start out on nv
:ound of calls to receive orders for the
next day. make it point. of course,
20 visit my fourteen households each
day, and YOU can easily understand
how busy / am between $50 and 10
O'Clock. However, they are all quite
near together, so l manage it very
comfortably.
81 have nothing to do with making
ont the menus, although | fancy it
wonll come into the province of my
work were l not so busy. For a
woman wishing to undertake my bust
ness / would advise her to market for
fewer families, aud rs far rs possible
make ont the menus. Every house
keeper will ask her advice, and will
in the end leave the greater part of
the selection to the marketer; so, il
she would begin correctly, let her bar
gain to make the menus for each day.
1t will not only put more money IN
her pocket, but she will be credited
with what she really does Now [ in
reality make the menus for large
majority of my patrons, but ] am bene-
fitted by that branch Of my work
neither financially nor otherwise. , 49,
Chicago Record.