The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-04
PssssssssssssssssssssseA,
WOMAN'S WORLD.
A COOPERATIVE MARKeTeR.
One Woman Earns ~ Good Salary Bnyine
For MANY Families.

"There are fourteen families for
whom j market and any salary for the
work is $2S00," Miss Elizabeth Arnold
admitted when approached aud asked
to talk about her work. 81 may or
may not he the only cooperative mar
koter, but il there are others l have
never heard of them.
"I began with three families,
friends, who agreed to allow me to do
their marketing aud profit by the per
cent. which could induce the market
men to allow, after the manner Of q
shopping agent. That plan didn't
work SO we'll and i finally induced
them TO try me for six months on a
salary-S100. At tho snd of the time
agreed upon all the parties concerned
--mySelf included--were so we'll
pleased with the result that I coll
tracted for year.
"Realizing that the larger tic guam
ties OF provisions could buy the
cheaper they would be, set about to
find other patrons. I succeeded in
getting ten families on the same terms,
and since that time four others have
been added to my list. These last ad
ditions / would like to say, however,
came to me. / did not solicit their or
ders, because 1 really did not caro- to
take more than ten.
"My work 10 so systematized that
can tell you just how manage it now,
though when / first began / fancy 1t
would have been difficult to make any
ono understand my many maneuvers.
First, of course, [ visit each pa.
tron, and find out just what they wish
for the next day. Next morning l go
to the market with my lists, examine
meats. fish, vegetables, fruits OF what.
ever am to buy, and give my orders.
OF course l see shat every article is
tho very .best of its kind, and buying
in surh large quantities the dealers are
wiling TO allow me the discounts they
give small dealers. Ny patrons get
the benefit Of this discount, 80, OF
course, their supplies come to them
cheaper. Besides reduction in price
by buying at the market instead OF the
corner grocers, they get everything as
fresh as it can be bought, aud have a
MUM BiCsbbCi var iOby W SCicSb IL Ouis
Certainly my experience tells, and
am better uble to select good pro-
visions than the average cook or even
mistress, though it is very seldom these
days that either of them go to market
As q 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 n rule, is all done in
tho morning before 10 o'clock. Gen
orally my actual marketing is over at
$50 o'clock; then L start out on my
: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 j am between $50 and 10
o'clock. However, they are all quite
near together, so L manage it very
comfortably.
II have nothing to do with making
ont the menus, although | fancy it
would come into the province of my
work were not so busy. For a
woman wishing to undertake my bust
ness | would advise her 10 market for
fewer families, aud as far as possible
make out 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 bnr'
gain to make the menus for each day
1t will not only put more money III
her pocket, but sho will be credited
with what she really does. Now / in
reality make the menus for large
majority OF my patrons, but am bene-
fited by that branch of my work
neither financially nor otherwise -
Chicago Record.