Evening star., 1934-07-15

electrical dealers to handle the an
nouncers and he showed them to count
less home owners, doctors and dentists.
For this service Mr.. White Collar re-
ceived "a for one direct sale of $40. In
his anxiety 10 make a permanent con-
nection with this company he did not
stop 10 think that 1t was an impoSSi-
bility to sell such a decided luxury at
this time. Then, of course, there was
the inevitable attempt TO sell life in
surance.
NNCE my husband entered the adver-
Using field He was asked to solicit
space on a stage screen for the local
woman's club. After the space was sold
he found that he was expected to wait
until the woman's club was paid be-
fore he received his commission. This
meant he had to carry the response
bility for the advertisers credit. For six
weeks hard work he received $6l, which
ne had to collect himself.
One month it seemed we had been
very fortunate. My husband earned $44.
Then I stopped to think how he had
earned it, Twelve dollars he had re-
ceived for washing the windows in a
new two-story house. The cold Winter
wind was blowing such gale that he
could scarcely stick to his ladder. An
other $12 he earned selling garage Serv-
ice coupon books. That was easy. The
other $40 came from using a pick and
shovel on a new municipal golf course,
in cold rain and snow and terrific wind.
i Shudder to recall that memory.
Then the boarders! The first col
lege girl whose type never knew existed
in the flesh. I thought she was met
only in the pages of the risque maga-
ZINES. We rid our home of her very
speedily. Then we had the socially
attractive widow who had speculated
too heavily in the stock market. She
had "mooching" down to the nth degree
And it took me four months to get wise
to her. She could very cheerfully live
off an unemployed family for made
Quate compensation while she kept her
self faShionably dressed and groomed to
'step out" with her friends.
We had always made practice Of
never accepting anything from any one
unless we were prepared in advance to
make an adequate return. So we nat
urally drifted into barter" At a meet
ing of a community service club a new
friend overheard me say to a seam
stress that I dreamed of having her
make a dress for me sometime. Right
then and there our barter started. The
SeamstresS needed some repairing done
TO her home, and my new friend do
mated a few yards of silk in exchange
for some labor in her garden. Another
friend heard of the fun and brought
some woolen material for a street dress
for this hooked a rug. To pay the
seamStreSS Mr.. White Collar repaired
plumbing and door locks and reuphol-
stored an easy chair. Our children had
a big thrill from mothers two new
dresses. Daddy had truly gone a-hunt-
ing" for the traditional rabbit skin.
That barter started several months of
straight manual labor for him. He
painted three kitchens, the exterior of
three houses and two garages, and in
stalled a sprinkler system in a neigh
boris garden. He and an unemployed
carpenter built two garages.
COMETIMES the people he worked for
tried to chiSel-and / noticed that
women are much better than men at
chiSeling on labor. They think they
know just how to cash in on the fact
that a good workman is out of a job.
One woman, for whom my husband did