The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-10-29
SOME MAKE AS MUCH AS $4,000 A
YEAR AND EXPENSES.
ONE A COLLEGE GRADUATE
In the Business to Stay-Some crowd
Male Competitors - h1rrowing
Tale Of Millinery Salesman
Women IN Many Lines.

New York. oct. 2S.--Women drum
mcrs have come to stay. The com
mcrciai travellers prosperity CON
grcss recently held in New YORK
afforded q good chance for inquiries
on this point. The replies were
inonotouously unanimous.
"To stay? Why you couldn't get
them out with ton Of dynamite
There is something ueful In a
regular knight OF the giip when he
talks about his professional sisters.
one of them ran up against his first
female competitor last fall when he
started out with a line Of Holiday
goods.
lie was going on ut a lcasurely
gait. taking good line of orders
from his old customers, when he
struck Cleveland and disaster. The
first dealer he called ON met him
with the bllthe announcement that
he had come too late; sweet aud
amiable young woman had been
there and had received the entire
holiday order.
Not the entire order?" stammer'
ed the dumbfounded man.
yes. everything she wanted"
Every customer the man had in
Cleveland had gone over to the
enemy
He hustled on TO Columbus. She
had been there before him. II was
the same at Cincinnati and a little
more of the same at Indianapolis.
lie finally caught up with her a.
Denver and proceeded to find out
for himself what sort OF wizard this
swet and amiable person was.
lie had to admit that she was
the clcverest, NEST diplomatic wo-
man he had ever met and that her
success was legitimate. lie found
out atterward that It was her first
trip and that when she had been out
three weeks her house had I.
wire her to hold on n bit. for she
was sending in orders faster than
they could nll them.
81 know a young woman who sells
hats (and so do | when can keep
ahead OF her)," said another drum
mer in relating his experience; but
let me drop in behind her and it's
all-day with me, for when she
strikes a town she carries away
every order in H."
But in this she has the odnn.
tagc of me' she is trikingly pret-
" for u milincrs model and tries
on every shape she has for sale
among her samples and she places
them all on her pretty head In
such a coqucttlsh and graceful man.
ncr that IL shows off the beauties
OF the hats TO perfection Now. |
would look pretty trying on ladies'
hats, wouldn't !?
These women are as rule
strong, healthy, clear headed and
in every way belong TO the twentieth
century Some Of them do exactl,
as men do-ylsit the merchants per,
soually and solicit orders Others
rent suite OF rooms I'm the best
hotel in which 10 display goods
notify their customers and await
them there.
And there is still another elias,
Of these drummers who cater {,
individual custom, and these. too, ar,
very successful. quite n number o
New York women work in this man
ner.
There is one young woman VIII
travels for one of the largest DIR
god houses in Cincinnati She {
of Irish 1arentage and has the beat
tifu' eyes and complexion we $
often see among the lrsh-America
girls. Her. figure is simply pcrfe,
tion and all OF the madeup garment
among her samples are shown I
her FORM so that they NJ like IN
paper on the wall, and whom sh
once dons them she shows ther
20 the best advantage and she Sc
dom fails 10 get an order
"Shc told me she was gradual
Of one Of the leading colleges 70
women in America, and has sine
studied every art that might he O.
benefit 10 her I'm her business. Sh
has had many offers Of marriag
from some OF her best customer
but she is happy and content t
live on her salary which IS $500
year and commissions which o
ten run It up 10 $1,000. besides a
of her expenses.
"Her trade is worth 100000
wear ia her house and this