Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-05-29

VertiSementS ana nnally round one
where persons were wanted TO address
envelopes ct home for liberal pay.
That was just the thing. BY the time
she had addressed thirty or forty mil
| lions that delicaiesscn store would be
n sure thing IN case Of the failure OF
| the other
She applied NJ Il certain street and
| number. So did about hundred girls.
| fifty old women and number OF
boys. The man IN the office called
her my dear" and gave her thou.
sand envelopes 10 take home that he
might see what sort OF hand she
wrote He also eNacted n deposit of
30 cents for their return. He also
took her for young widow and re-
marked on his gladness to see her
striving to make an honest living in
stead Of attending champagne suppers
at sporty restaurants.
II took the ambitious young wife the
best part Of two days TO address the
! thousand envelopes. and when she
carried them back the man smiled at
her In n brotherly way and handed
! over 20 cents and said:
'NIy dear. you have only TO keep on
and You viii wear diamonds
But the striving wife didn't keep on.
She was so discouraged and indignant
that she left the place without de.
handing her deposit. Something else
must be found. She saw the simple
life galloping down on her and shirt
less collarless and sockless men pass
ing gents furnishing stores with looks
of contempt.
That something else was an ad. A
bright young woman could make from
So TO SO n day by calling at such n
street and number. Nobody would
! dare advertise such n thing unless Il
were true. and young Mrs. Lee called.
! Lady canvassers were wanted TO sell
! newly invented corset. 1t was n
/ corset that would give any woman in
the world n wilowy form. It would
add to her height. straightcn the stoop
in her shoulders. and she would seem to
float IN the air as she walked. No
canvasser had made less than So Il
! day. and some were ashamed OF them
selves for making only so.
The caller allowed herself to be
talked into the canvassing business
up on points and then made plunge.
mot ut home" met her at the door OF
the first four houses she called at and
mot NJ home" and "she wouldn't see
you II she were" at the next four.
At the ninth house she was admit
ted. and the lady offered her a Job as
parlor maid. At the tenth the lady
of the house was in bed with head
ache. but her husband wasn't. He
asked the canvasser TO sit down for n
heart to heart talk and give him her
confidence and when she refused he
said that IL she had to live on turnips
and sleep In barrels all the rest OF
her days 1t was her own fault. That
ended the corset business.
When the sample was handed in the
man IN the Office threw Il down and
muttered something that sounded like
swear word-two or three swear
words connected by dashes.
There was one more trial for the
striving young wife. She advertised
TO give piano lessons at the homes Of
! pupils She received postal cards to
call here and there, and she called, TO
be snubbed by servants, winked at by
young men and TO be told by the lady
Of the house that her terms were at
least one-half too high.
! In two cases she was offered castoff
dresses In exchange for instructions
and called "a stuck up thing when
she refused. Mrs. Lee went home with
tears in her eyes TO find her husband
there, two hours ahead Of his usual
time. The simple life had comet The
shirtless. sockless era had dawned at
last, and the furnishing store had
open the delicatessen.
The poor bride leaned against her
husbands shoulder and sobbed.
There. there. What is 1t, pet?" he
cooed
"Oh, Arthur, IL was trying so hard
to get money TO meet this calamity,
and-and | haven't got cent?
Calamity? What calamity do you
mean?'
"Why, the smash! Miss Headly said
1t would come and that we must open
delicatessen store and sell sausages
and saladsr'
"Sausages and salads be hanged"' he
shouted. "Old maids be hangedl Gone
to smash be hanged. Why. sweet
heart. business is so good that !
bought a piano today and have come
home TO see It delivered. Here II
comes now
And men are going to keep right on
wearing shirts and things?"
Lord, yes. The dollar shirt at IS
cents is MS firmly fixed as the rock OF
Gibraltar"