The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-07
WllNES Of TRAVELLERS
Y ACCOMPANY HUSBANDS
Commercial Statesmen Nowadays Learning to Find Com
foFt and Even Economy in Having Their Companonship
On the Road
On the Road.

Once upon time q certain COM
dnercial traveller fell in love with a
3frl: but directly he had told her about
U ne was seized with remorse. "What
right have to ask you to marry me?"
ne said. Il am a wanderer, doomed
70 range to and fro and up and down
through, these United States selling
Black & Cos sanitary soaps. To ask
you share my home Is mockery. A
travelling salesman's home is on the
road"
Well. what's to prevent my sharing
that home with your" said the girl.
AND she did. They we're married, and
Tor three years her home for most of
tho year was whatever hotel he hap
Henedi TO be staying at for the time.
Hne did not, OF course, sell sanitary
soaps. but she managed to amuse her.
sRlf, and kept her husbands socks
mended and the buttons on his shirts,
and otherwise made his life more
agreeable than 1t had formerly been.
The extra railroad fares and hotel
charges amounted to no more than 1t
would have cost to maintain a settled
home for her. But at the end of three
years twins were born to them, and
hotels and twins do not go we'll to-
gether. SO they acquired house, and
the father now sees his wife for
hurried day or two at intervals of
some weeks. They are proud of the
twins. but they occasionally look back
with come longing TO the days when
they were con the road" together.
Perhaps this woman set the fashion,
at any rate. whereas it was once al
most an unheard-of thing for a COM
mercial traveller to take his wife with
him regularly upon his trips, it is not
at all unusual today. Some of the
hotels most freQuented by drummers
in this and other cities now make
special rates for the wife in such
cases.
I'VE consider it good policy to do
So" said the manager of one such
hotel In Broadway to q reporter. "The
man who has brought his wife with
him makes better patron, as rule,
than the man who has left his wife
Mt home. To have her along with him
keeps him straight; or, suppose he's
the kind that would be straight any
way. the domestic kind, her presence
keeps him happy and contented. He
isn't SO anxious to get home. Conse-
Quently. when q travelling salesman
NOAAO0 accompanied ny lilo WIG We
make no charge for her except for the
food she eats. And tell our en-
I ployes to. cater to the women always.
The men we'll get anyhow; the women
! we especially want"
. Oddly enough, the members of large
manufacturing firms. those sending
! ont numbers Of statesmen. as rule do
not seem, to like the notion Of the
/ travellers taking their wives with them
though the objection does not appear
to be based ON knowledge, for the d.
pectprs always assert that their sales
men leave the wives at home Per
hapa they do. and perhaps they do not
One we'll known manufacturer Of type
writer's declared to the reporter tina,
wife would be 5ust excess baggage
to salesman ON trip. "Our mer
work day and night when they are
ont" he said" "How could a man
work lf he had his wife along with
hfm7 He'd have his mind on her. be
worrying over the necessity of ieav-
fng her In strange hotels, and wonder.
ing how to keep her entertained. when
he should be selling typewriters. As