Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-16
\ SEWING MACHINE STORY

 said the young man who smokes. But that Is what I have just done. l did Il through the machinations of Mrs. Johnson Potter. Mrs. Potter is hon: est. She lives up to her word. When | she came down to see about getting | machine she said some of the most | astonishing things you ever heard | come out of woman's mouth.
 "'I don't want to rert a machine , she said. neither do I want to buy | one. I simply want to have one sent i ia for two or three weeks so I can 1 get my spring sewing done. And l l don't want 70 pay anything for it. have spent all ray money fer material for new clothes and have no money 1 left to pay for machine to make 1 them on. thought you might let me have one on trial
 Mrs. Potter's extraordinary candor almost foored me
 "It Is the usual supposition, I re- piled, cautiously. that when we leave machine at house on trial the party intends to buy it eventually "I 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 ] .eud to do any such thing. They sim ply wish to get the usc of machine for few weeks free of cost and then send 1t back oA the ground that il is unsatisfactory. The difference be- tween these people and me is that tell you the truth, and they don't l don't want to buy. and say so: they don't want to buy, and say they do.' T told Mrs. Potter that I appreci- ated her flat-footed honesty.
 But can't sec said I. where we come in. What do we get out of the deai?'
 Oh, as to that said Mrs. Potter, T intend to try to sell machine for you. The woman in the fiat across the hall Is going to buy, and if you will send one Of your machines around to I the house this afternoon, so can start | right in sewing and show her what | excellent work it does before she de I cities upon something else, am quite | sure can persuade her to buy of
 you
 As soon as Mrs. Potter got through | talking went back and told the man.
 ager and his assistants what she had tsaid. We ali agreed that Mrs. Pot l ter was a curiosity. but We didn't
 know what to do with her.
 It is my opinion, said I. that we ought to let her have a machine as
 reward for her unparalleled truthful
 ness. Of course, I don't take any
 stock in that yarn of hers about try ing to sell a machine for the use of her own. Nevertheless, I think we
 ought to accommodate her merely as
 an encouragement of veracity.'
 At last I talked the manager
 around to my way of thinking. But don't let her have one of our
 machines he said Put her of with
 renter. She will never know the diff
 ference
 The managers suggestion fired my
 brain with brilliant idea. Whats the matter I said. with
 letting her have that secondhand af-
 fair made by the A B c company that , we got the other day in trade? We
 will never be able to do anything with it. and even if Mrs. Potter should smash il all to pieces we wouldn't be
 out anything
 "'AIl right, said the manager. Tt
 is your funeral. Fix her out any way
 you please.
 50 Mrs. Potter got her machine.
 We heard nothing from her for three weeks. Then one day she came
 into the office. She brought sever
 women with her, and the way they all bowed and seraped and smiled at ms
 actually made me dizzy. "aThat machine you sent me is 2 treasure said Mrs. Potter. It doe: < the loveliest work you ever saw 1T : your life. All these ladies say the, i never saw such tuckipg and stitching and hemming, and they have decided 10 sell their old machines and bu, , new ones just like 1t. In fact, I an ], so pleased with it that I am going t :, buy one myself, although I cant se' !, how I can afford it just now. We al
 live In the same building, and woui' like eight machines sent up to tha address this afternoon.
 ]. Mrs. Potter's wholesale order sur 1, prfsed me into an honesty that wa :, outdone only by her own. ., But we do not handle that mak !, of machine confessed. We merel !, happened to have one on hand. Bu
 we can sell you our own machine
 fhe same price
 4 Mrs Potter looked at the othe IF women collectively and individual, a and the whole bunch of them shoo :" their heads.
 .y "'No, thank you said Mrs. Pottel It We have set our hearts on that styl
 of machine. If you don't handle ther W we will look up somebody who doe n much as we should like to deal wit d. you
 rel And then, before could put in al other word in favor of our own stocl ,oi Mrs. Potter and her seven neighbol ,., had marched out, bound for the hea
 quarters of the rival concern. I'll teI manager had been standing neart h and had overheard the whole conve
 sation. As soon as he caught h ,s breath, he did little figuring for n
 beneft.
 o, There's eight machines at q Q, apiece gone up the spout, he sal u That comes of your idiotic plan Ir fooling a customer with machil
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