The Robesonian., 1918-07-11
BEWARE THE SLICK AGENT.


ing dreams for real money. He prowl-
eth about while it is yet broad day;
yea, at noon-tide he descendeth upon
the tired and unsuspecting housewife
and openeth up to her realms of STALL
fed ease wherein she can do all hel
work by only wave Of the hand, a
naughty gesture, or tap of the foot.
She is tired, God bless her. Unremit-
ting toll hath woven into every day
a dullness of color that hath bent her
never-to-be-broken spirit; she cannot
see so keenly the line between the
false and the true. And this the
agent knoweth. And so he telleth
his yarn with JUNCTION and the good
housewife believes. On THE dotted
line she signs her name in the mo-
mentary illusion that she is assum-
ing slight obligation in return fer
which work which heretofore has
cost her long hours of toll will be done
for her as if by magic. The agent de-
parts, and doubts and fears begin to
assail. By and by the longed-for pur-
chase arrives. It does not look like the
agent said it would look; it does not
act like the agent said it would act.
1t does not show any disposition to go
ahead and do all the work by itself
while the lady of the house takes her
a - ho 4f4
ed that any such thing is expected of
it. Fact is, it seems much inclined to
do all the resting and loafing that is
to be done about that house. The la
dy protests; she is indignant; she will
not take the thing. But the agent
knoweth stop to this; verify he hath
the cunning Of the devil. Even as
when the agent first called there arose
before the astonished eyes of the tired
housewife visions of realms of pure
delight wherein fancy priced stove
would do everything but go out to the
garden and gather the vegetables
(and they were working on an attach
ment to do that, and a fancy-priced
machine would do all the seasons sew
ing without help other than an occa.
slonal hint as to how dress should be
made and a very seldom request fo1
more material-even so now there
arises before her panied eyes a vision
OF manned man out of employment
wife and children in despair ano
hungry if she fails to take this
thing which by this time has become
veritable monster.
And so she signs some more on,
the agent rides off with the trust,
friend, given as part payment in ex
cnange, which has stood by her though
thick and thin and been friend IN
ueed. FOLLOW heartrending letters +.
tne far-away house whence came II,
gilo agent who now appears in fame,
as the devil himself, with hoofs an,
horns and all. The manager is eorr,
Never had a complaint before an
.ney nave placed many hundred q
tnose same trusty labor-savers An
anyway, they've got the note vo
Know all properly signed, and ther
does not seem to- be anything to Il
about it. " u
Nothing, maybe, except to m,,rda
.he next agent and hang his hide owe
the door as an awful warning.
Aunt Sophia" tells a moving sto,
ABOUT her experiences with an ape,
and S79 machine. 1t is the exn,
rlence, over and over again, of man
another housewife-and househusban
too, for that matter-who has Ii
tened to smooth-talking agents of ia
away houses instead of looking in II
home paper and seeing what the hon
merchant has to offer.
But, bless Pat, maybe she looks
the home paper and finds that Il