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
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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is theproportion maintained on the payroll of a leading corsetmanufacturer. Here is a field one would think peculiarlyfeminine. When a manager who himself had previously been onthe road and was thoroughly posted, or thought he was,about the relative ability of men and women drummersin handling this article was asked why he did not employmore travelling saleswomen, he answered: good traveller merely wont sell goods or command therespect or attention of merchants, who, by the way, dontalways have on their party manners. There are very few women drummers selling womenssuits, cloaks or millinery. Groceries, chewing gum, per-fumes, notions, neckwear and other fancy articles,though, are handled frequently by travelling sales-women. No, the story that business women have to suffer in-dignities when travelling is all bosh. The right sort ofwomen can travel anywhere in the United States nowwithout incurring any disrespectful attentions whateverfrom men drummers or any one else. But, if a woman
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Robert Slimmon & Co., 96 Church St. Cant get em—the kind, I mean, who would justifyour sending them out on a trip certain to eat up aiot of good money for travelling expenses and salarywhether goods are sold or not. As a rule women haveless good business sense than men, and some of theexceptions who want to sell goods on the road haventgood enough health to stand the strain of travelling allnight and working all day, which often happens a weekor more at a time. A percentage of the women who ask me for a jobof this kind say that they just adore travelling and choosethe work because it will give them a chance to see agood deal of the United States; and I have no doubt theytell the truth. Probably they would make splendid travel-lers and not mind average hardships at all. But being a is thinking of playing off her good looks, good clothesand pretty manners to get business, she is apt to getless business than indignities. An attractive woman who seemed to have a lot ofsense and cons

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