New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-03
Love of Pleasant Surprises
Capitalized by Clever Women

tn. Christmas season. Of course, II our
! busiest time. and last year we had to stop
taking orders as soon ss ten days before
! Christmas, and three OF US worked nine
! teen hours 3 day for about two weeks TO
| III orders We had already taken for Kriss
| Kringle chests.
| OF course, many Of m. Christmas boxes
we're for the children but lots were for
| lonelies' girl from way cut West sent
US e. and wrote that this was the fret
| Christmas she had been alone with her
sorrow and she wanted real surprise box
| 70 help her feel that some one had thought
OF her. This is lust the kind OF thing which
| makes us hsppiest In our vork-the thought
| that We are helping along the happiness IN
the world and doing our little best TO In.
crease II.
! Easter is another busy season and small
bovs and girls and grown-up ones TOO are
always having birthdays thar must be ap-
| propria'ely recognized. There is one family
| consisting Of two small boys which keeps
us constantly busy. These boys have already
had nine boxes each, on special occasions.
/ and when they have been III. and We are
Just beginning TO wonder whether we shall
rot soon run ont Of ideas for them.
! Next to the reception room, where seyerai
! Of the finished boxes are displayed, Is 4
| large. light workroom stocked with all Inn
aginable novelties to while away the time
! for Young and old, sick and well.
I'VE try TO get as many things as pos
sible that cannot be found in the shops,
| said Miss Pussy. Some we have to I'm
port and some few are our own fnven-
| tons IT Is surprising the things that Will
occur TO one sometimes, just on the spur
OF the moment. | think IL ever We decide
10 give up this business We shall become
novelty specialists
| Besides the boxes piled about the work.
room. there were many quaint baskets
Miss Pussy explained that these were used
for arrangements of fruit and flowers to
be sent TO those going down to the sea In
ships and to the sick.
We take lots OF trouble in arranging the
fruit and flowers attractvely. because We
believe It gives the gle greater value,
continued Miss Pussy. I'm this connections
funny incident happened few weeks
ago A woman who has been coming TO us
! for some time for boxes and baskets Of all
kinds wanted a basket Of flowers sent to a
sick friend who Is very particular and
loves beautiful things. We spent lots OF
| time and thought arranging that basket,
| and when II was ready we decided that We
! had made pretty good thing OF H. A few
! DAYS afterward our customer came In vtsf-
! bly, annoyed-but not at us, we soon die
| covered. Her friends butler. Il seems, had
received the flowers taken them from the
basket In which they had been 20 thought
| fully arranged, put them In large vase
end presented them to his mistress In that
| ashton. When people pay us especially TO
! think for them. naturally both they and We
are aggrieved when what they are PAYING
| for and we are providing goes ell for
| naught- but, then. II seldom does"
| When Miss Pussy was asked whether she
nas not afraid that some one else n1igbs
take up the particular work which she ard
| her sister had developed. she answered
/ that she thought there was little danger
and that II any one did make serious In.
roads into their profits she felt sure that
! she and her sister would think OF some-
thing else to do.
/ IF only women who are thrown upon
| their own resources would stop ard think.
! said Miss Pussy. they surely could dis
cover some other method OF making their
/ living IMAM III ways tndt nav" dNrduS W
| come exhausted. our experience ought tn
Re valuable to them from that point OF
view. because We had never heard OF any
one doing the particular line OF work We
! decided upon after much cudgelling or
brains And We should be very happy IN
/ think that our experience in thinking up
something really new had encouraged some
other woman to go and do likewise.