The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-18
THE NEW ENDLESS CHAINS.
Mrs. BIiNon Fails to Take Advantage
of Great Offer.

Mrs. BIiNon Fails to Take Advantage
of Great Offer.
Mrs. Blixon said to Mr.. B.ixon, when he
arrived home from the office that night:
DO you remember the people who lived
at the corner on Street before we moved
away
No" said Mr. Blxon, but Why"
You don't remember their name, nor
! who they were. nor anything about them?
No. They had big. ill-mannered
dog
Nothing else?''
We'll, do. remember that their name
is Frocllmore 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 to show me how to get a
s. silk shirt waist for 20 cents
Mir. BliNoB- veniured no remark. either
of questioning or cTedulity. He guessed
that Mrs. Blixon had not invested the 20
cents, and was content to wait quietly for
the confusion of Mrs. Frockmore when
Mrs. Biixon should explain more fu ly.
1T is a new plan said that lady. Il
give Mrs. Frockmore 20 cents. She sends
il, with a dollar more, collected from five
other women, TO company, with all of
our names in return she receives from
the company her lhirt waist, and We all re-
ceive books containing six coupons each.
We then go out among our friends and do
what Mrs. Frockmore has done. When
@e have secured six subscriptions we fl
the coupons out with names, send on tie
money. and receive our shirt waists, too"
1T is a great plan TO get a shirt waist
cheap; but would not do what she has
done. Why, she had to enquire of the
Gardners, or somebody, 10 find out where
we mad moved. She said so. We hardly
nodded the entire year we lived in the
block. did ask her about her baby once
when She was sitting on the porch with
it last summer as ! passed. It's won
derfui, isn't it, the things that some
women will do?
she sent up her card. l 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 Street. We
talked few minutes about the babies
and / wondered why she had called. Then
she told me.
g One of the objects of my call today
she said, is to tell you how to get a fine
shirt waist for 20 cents. ! know it's no
fraud. for ! have one from the company
already. l am getting another now for
mother a"
And what did you say TO herr" 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
1T is very interesting Mr.. Blixon
said Mrs Frockmore's call. / mean.
The plan ] know. | was also introduced 10
it today. A man down town tried TO in
duce me 10 own a bicycle for 81 in the
same way Man | meet at my lunch place.
Told me ought not 10 eat pie so often,
one day; the only time he ever spoke to
me before.
THE plan is simple. II is kind Of
every man his own Franklin Syndicate
game II is all over the country. Shirt
waists and skirts, bicycles, automobiles,
fountain pens and white elephants are
only few OF the things you can get for 20
cents or s..
There are several objections TO it, how
ever. One Of them you have explained. 1t
tempts a certain class of persons TO call on
one. when they wouldn't call otherwise.
This is really perhaps the chief objection.
The others all have to do with its dishon-
esty
THE plan is not usually worked as Mrs.
Frockmore worked H. The fellow that
'braced' me didn't ask for my s., but told
me to send it 10 the company myself He
Will have TO wait for his reward until all of
his friends send their money to the COM
pany. Some OF them may never send and
he will lose his bicycle. Mrs. Frockmore's
plan is the best for her. She has the hand
ling of the money. She makes sure Of her
shirt wais; as soon as she secures her sub
scribers. providing the compan. does not
fail. And if by any chance she fails to nil
out her coupons. ii is not impossible tina:
she may keep the money she collects TO
pay her for her trouble.
THE company wins anyway. 1t sells its
silk shir, waist which probably costs it
about so cents for Sf.20. Ii never sends
out a shirt waist until it receives its s1.20
from Mrs. FrockmOrc or from her six
friends. And when, as must happen in the
large majority OF cases all OF the people do
not send on their money. ii pockets whal is
sent in and keeps he shirt waist, too.
only suppose the shirt waist scheme
to succeed perfectly suppose that Mrs.
Frocknore finds six subscribers and gets
her shirt waist for 20 cents. and that
each of the six finds six more. This will
mean six shirt waists and thirty-six new
agents at work for the company. Sup
pose no one falls out on the endless chain
it would only take a short time for all
the women in the world including the
little girls TO get shirt waists. Mrs
FruckmOre's friends would enlist PIG new
canvassers. They would drum up 1886
others. Shirt waists for these ,29G ladies'
could only be secured by interesting T,77G
ladies in the plan. The next remove would
be ~. 656, and the next 1896. Only
eight steps away from Mrs. Frockmore
! ,679 616 ladies and children would be en-
listed. and another step would make the
number IL. OF $50. Before the next step
could be taken American ladies would
have to send TO their friends in Europe
for there are not 60, 600, 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 200, 600 600 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.