The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-04-11
4 SEWING
MACHINE STORY

For a sewing machine agent TO sell
whole consignment of another com-
pany-s goods is something unusual
said the young man who smokes RE-
that is what I have just done ! did
it through the Vaccinations Of Mrs
Johnson Potter Mrs Potter Is hon
est She lives up to her word When
she came down TO see about getting a
machine she said some Of the most
astonishing things you ever heard
come out of voman-s mouth
Il don't want to rent a machine
she said. neither do ! want to buy
one j simply want TO have one sent
in for two or three weeks 50 I can
get my spring sewing done And
don't want to pay anything for It,
have spent all nv money for material
for new clothes and I have no money
left to pay for machine to make
them on l rhorght you might lei me
have one On trial.
Mrs Potter's extraordinary czndor
almost floored me-
1t is the usual superstition I re
piled, cautiously. that when We leave
machine at house on trial the
party intends to buy it eventually
II know it is returned Mrs Pot
ter, airily, but you have been IN the
business long enough to know by this
time that half the people Who get ma
chimes on those terms don't really IN
tend to do any such thing They Sim
ply wish to get the use Of q machine
for few weeks free Of cost and then
send it back ON the ground that IL II
unsatisfactory The difference BE-
tween these people and me is that I
tell you the truth and they don't
don't want to buy and say SO. they
don't want to buy and say they do
Il told Mrs Potter that I zpprecf
ated her fiatfooted honesty
But 1 can't see,' said /. where ne
come in What do we get out Of the
deal7'
oh. as to that said Nrx Potter
I intend to try to sell a machine fo-
you The woman in the nat acruss th~
hall is going to buy and If you VIII
| send one of your machines around TO
/ the house this afternoon. 50 can start
/ right in sewing and show her What
excellent work it does before she DE-
cides upon something else am quite
sure l can persuade her TO buy Of
| YOU
AS soon as Mrs Potter got shrvu<h
7 talking I vent back and told the Ezn
ager and his assistants what she had
said We all agreed that Mrs Pos-
| ter vas curiosity but We didn't
know what TO do with her
1t Is my opinion said L that xe
~ - L.
reward for her unparalleled truthful
ness OF course 1 don't take 1zr
stock in that yarn Of hers about Ex-
/ ing to sell = machine for the use O.
her own NevertheEess- I think We
ought to- accommodate her merely Is
An encouragement of veraeIsx
AT last I talked the manager
around to my way of thinking
But don't let her have one OF oz-
machines he said Put her OF With
. renter She viii never know the Dr.
ference
The Managers suggestion Erred mv
brain with \ brilliant idea
What's the matter 1 said With
| letting her have that second hand ~
/ fair made by the A h c company that
re got the other day IN trade, We
xin never be able 10 do anything viii
L. and even il Mrs Potter sAoula
smash it an to pieces we wuus6ars ee
snt anything
IAN right, said the manager IL
5 your funeral Fix her oct any way
-ou please
So Mrs Potter got her machine
We heard nothing from her fo<
-hree weeks Then one day she came
INTO the once, She brought sever
women with her and the way they Al
bowed and scrapeS and smiled nj M
actually made me dizzy
That machine you sent me Is =
treasure said Mrs Potter tt does
your life All these ladies sly they
never saw such tuekIng and stitching
and hemming- and they have decided
10 sell their old machines and buy
new ones Just like IT, In fact. 1 an
30 pleased with it that am going 70
GUY one myself, although / can't -
how I can afford it Just ROW. We all
i've in the same building. and woals
like eight machines sent mp to tAz-
address this afternoon
Mrs Potter's Wholesale order sur-
prised me into an honesty that VAS
auttlone only by her own
But we do not handle that make
Of machine confessed We merely
happened TO have one On hand Bux
we can sell yoa our own machine ~
the same price
Mrs Potter looked at the other
women collectively and individually
and the whole bunch Of them shook
their heads
No thank YOU said Mrs Potter
We have set our hearts ca that ssyse
OF machine, II yo0 don't handle them
we win hook up somebody Who does
YOU