Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-10-10


r q ycar after hl. mnrriare 60 q farm
4 efs d9uahief Iaeob Anson farmer
q son. removed 10 town and opened WIN
/. be proudly termed commission house
. n WIS 10 this way II WIS an old
building at the railroad depot and
Jacob bought butter and eggs Of the
formers for price and shipped them
10 the city ard sold them FOR higher
one lie made ~ much ns cents q
, dozen on eggs and cents pound on
butter. Jacob Arson had Hlwnys said
that he wanted 10 be n business man
when ho grew NJ. and here he was.
He had place. and I've bud n sign aud
! lefferileads and cards. He did 81 worth
OF advertising IN tbc-country papers.
and the whole town congratulated him
on his business enterprise Jacob had
always pafted himself on the back as
some pumpkins. and now he became
very cbesty. One day when he bad
shipped enough butter and eggs TO re-
turn him a profit Of - ne went home
with his head held 30 high mat Il was
two minutes before he saw bis wife
II am glad business Is SO good. she
/ said. but there are Other things need
I ed IN the city besides butter and eggs
fon have the room Ia store them and
the time 10 handle them and why not
add pOini0es. beans, turnlps aud other
thlnesg"
"'fhis thing WIS my Idea IN the first
pluce. wasn't ~ he half demanded
In voice not az ali pleasant
"Of course"
well. ! believe ! have the gump
ton TO carry II through 20 success
without advice from anybody"
but II was suggestion. dacob."
Yes. | get lots of them and would
make failure In a week II needed
them. Leave business to men. Mary"
THAT IL TO say that the women have
no bralnsg"
There isn't one IN hundred that
can take cure OF herself when she be-
comes widow"
There was no further talk OF bust |
ness between husband wife. but In her
earnestuess Of belief the wife did
rather foolish thing that caused some
neighbor now and then to say:
JAKE. that wife OF yours has some
smart IDEAS
"Oh. | dunno"
"She was telling my wife the other
day that you could handle more stuff
just ~ well as not and thus increase
your income"
"And do you think so yoursef?"
why. I've thought 1t over aud feel
sure you could"
And jacob went home to dinner TO
say to Is wife:
$50 you are still determined to med
die with my business are you?"
II have said to two or three women
that thought you could increase it,"
should there be a separation you
would probably 20 into the commits s
'lon business yoursef2"
II might"
"And show me how to make a small
THAT might come too" p
Foolish talk, Of course, but every day
Reno produces something just as fool
sh IL was bone that was gnawed
{ unit separation tnally came
Ten days after Mrs Arson went
ome 20 her mother Dame Fortune
mlled on her A relative died and left 4,
er $1,000 Her husband said to every
ody that he was glad OF her luck and
the same time sorry for the lilSei.
God that she would lose every dollar
it Ia some wildcat Investment C.
Got Ideas aud no experience you -
now" he added IN a patronizlng way A.
Before the wife had decided Just
hat she would do il was the talk of
Ie town that It would be something
olish. whatever It was One day she
ent to the city. and all the knowing
les whispered. "MilllneryP r.
Mrs Arson didn't so to the shop -
ng districts nor enter any OF the
nolesale houses on Broadway. On the
ntrary. carriage took her 10 the r
oduce commission district. and she :, ~
lde many inquiries and transacted 80
nsderable business. Her husband 30
q never even seen the merchant he 70
pped 70, and few inquiries proved y
Il he had poor standing as 10 char IL
er and amount OF business done -
'ot word 81 explanation when Mrs
son arrived home The villagers Il
selected the store she wonld rent Mel
her stock bur She passed h by rre
7osite her husbands place OF bust bus
3 was en empty hail1ns much TAR al
than hie gaariers When tie vll- cen
.ls ccnls ia SNOW ibat It ned been you
en 0n Hve geafs itaso they al q
81 shouted aut: oes
Is Mrs Arson efaay what a To- ---
on tar millinery store" -
lille the building was being put IN -
pc Mrs. Arson drove about the
ntry Tor distance Of six or seven
IS in every direction and had tall
b farmers aud their wives, She No
e them information that astonshed M
n. she signed contracts with many ~
hem that made them see lots OF -
ley ahend no.
The * drumming up trade for her
iDefy store" was the general YER M