Identifier: crockeryglassjou74newy (find matches)
Title: Crockery & glass journal
Year: 1875 (1870s)
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Subjects: Pottery Glass Glassware
Publisher: New York : G. Whittemore & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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m or theiremployees how to use our manufacture. She does notask them to buy, nor will she take orders for the goods.Should the dressmakers want to purchase, they must goto the merchant in town who sells our goods. I have no prejudice against women drummers, butthe fact is there are not enough good ones in the market.The women who have applied to me were not in my drummer lacking ready speech and plenty of it may becounted out at the start. For this reason most women,supposing they have other nece sary qualifications, makebetter drummers than men do. Nowadays the drum-mers job appeals to many bright women who like tomove about and see something of the world and yet haveno means to gratify that desire. Given a chance someof these women do well. Others expect too much inthe way of politeness from the merchants with whomthey deal and from their business associates of the othersex. I myself did at first, and I came mighty near throw-ing up my position after the first trip—would have done
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East Liverpool Potteries Co., 76 Park Place. opinion well enough equipped for the work. A woman commercial traveller who has been ten yearson the road, who likes the work and finds it highly profit-able, says that a far larger number of women haveapplied in the last two or three years for employmentas travelling saleswomen than ever before, and that thenumber is increasing. The fact that more of these women are not employedis partly due, she thinks, to a certain prejudice felt againstthem by men drummers as well as by merchants. It wasalso true, she conceded, that a percentage of the appli-cants were not fitted for the work, being in some casestoo young, in others too frail looking or too lacking thegift of gab, to quote her literally. Said she: There may be times when silence is golden, but a it in fact only that my employer gave me some sensibleadvice and praised my work. It made me mad to have some of those Westernmerchants answer roughly when I tried to show themgoods. Rebuffs tha

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