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LADIES’ FURS 
We tan hides and make them into 
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237 Elm Street Milford, Ind. 
When writing to advertisers, be sure 
to mention the American Agriculturist 
American Agriculturist, November 15, 1924 
Ways to Make Money at Home 
A. A. Readers Tell Schemes that Have Worked-Our Pattern Service 
H ERRICK, Illinois, is one of those 
small towns where yon almost have 
to include the box ears when enumerating 
the inhabitants. In the spring of 1919, 
when the local milliner sold her stock of 
goods for $150, the local gossips said that 
she had done a very wise thing, for no¬ 
body would ever make anything of a 
millinery shop in so small a place. 
And they gossiped still more when they 
learned that a farmer’s wife, who had 
recently moved to town, had purchased 
the stock of goods. But Mrs. Janie Lee, 
the proprietor of the Ladies’ Furnishing 
Shop, to-day has an income of over $100 
per week. She sells about 500 hats a 
year, ranging in price from $3 to $15; 
300 silk dresses from $15 to $40 each, 
coats from $10 to $60, and suits from $15 
to $35. 
Altering While You Wait 
She carries in stock all kinds of notions, 
and a variety of garments for women and 
children. If you purchase a dress that 
requires altering, it is done while you 
wait, as Mrs. Lee keeps a sewing machine 
in the shop for this purpose. If you 
have in mind a certain dress or hat, and 
she doesn’t have it in stock, she will order 
it for you by mail from St. Louis. This 
mail-order service and her “ alter-while- 
vou-wait” system has won her hundreds 
of satisfied customers, scattered far and 
near. Women have even come from De¬ 
catur, Illinois, fifty miles away, to buy at 
her little shop. And if they come once 
they always come back again. 
Another popular feature of her business 
policy is that if you haven’t the money, 
she will sell you a dress or a hat on the 
installment plan just as the mail-order 
houses do. July and August are dull 
business months, but Christmas and 
Easter are such busy times that she finds 
it necessary to employ an assistant. 
Mrs. Lee has built up a profitable trade 
because she plans to give her customers 
what they want in the way most conven¬ 
ient to them. Again it is proved that 
“service counts.”— Mrs. Carmen Welch. 
Using What We Have 
T is a severe hardship when an un¬ 
trained woman is suddenly left to 
support herself and young children. One 
such woman of my acquaintance had a 
small farm, but she sold it at once and 
with the money, plus a small insurance, 
started anew in the city. 
She bought a lot and built a small 
house; on time payments she bought an 
electric washing-machine. A canning 
factory, employing help only during the > 
summer and fall, gave her its laundry 
work and this income she devoted to im¬ 
provements on her place. The first year 
she secured city water, cement walks, 
paid for her machine and installed a 
telephone. 
She had kept the older child in school, 
using him to collect and deliver the 
laundries outside of school hours. Laun¬ 
dry work for the townspeople paid 
current expenses and started a bank 
account. 
Home Work Keeps a Family Together 
More family work was offered her, but 
she was unable to handle it alone. For a 
few weeks du 'ng the busiest season she 
had a woman to help, but to have eu-. 
larged her business, as would have been 
easily possible, she felt would add to her 
responsibilities and take .way the home 
atmosphere. She had only a moderate 
education and had always had rather poor 
health, but the regular hours, assured 
income and freedom from anxiety agreed 
with her and she kept in good health, 
even during the busy canning season when 
her work was heavy. She refused to work 
on Sunday, and had no vacation the first 
year, but she had established a prosperous 
business and succeeded in keeping her 
children with her. 
To accomplish this demanded the 
qualities which bring success in any line of 
work—constant application to the task in 
hand, willingness to work hard, and the 
ability to deny oneself small pleasures, 
plus a painstaking attention to details of 
excellence.— Vincy Preston Loops. 
Enter the “Middle-Woman” 
ISS IDA PEYTON always wanted 
to go into business. She is on the 
sunny side of fifty. And “sunny” plus 
“efficient and energetic” form a first- 
elass description of her. 
She lives on a little farm, and nearly 
always boards the teacher and, until 
recently, has always had an ailing relative 
on her hands. But now she has a Ford 
roadster and a telephone, and has 
realized the ambition of her life. 
The neighborhood where she resides is 
two miles from the post-office and eight 
miles from town. 
She goes around and gathers everything 
that the farm women have to sell even if 
it is only an extra cucumber, and puts it 
with what someone else has. She sells 
everything over the telephone; gathers 
them up, packs, and carries them to the 
post-office and ships by parcel post. She 
carries our berries to town three times a 
week herself, to be sure that they get 
there fresh and in good shape. 
She begins with cowslip and dandelion 
greens in the spring, and sells a surprising 
amount of them. Then come asparagus, 
Swiss chard lettuce, onions, radishes, etc. 
Mrs. Eaton sends light homemade bread 
and biscuit, Mrs. Tallman doughnuts 
and cookies, and Miss Elsie Gray pin- 
cherry jelly, the prettiest eatable you 
ever saw as well as excellent. Cottage 
cheese and dressed poultry also sell well. 
Pop corn is an excellent seller. Miss 
Peyton will not take anything that is not 
fresh and first class. She packs her 
garden truck in strong paper bags tied 
with a string that is unbreakable, a point 
that is appreciated by the postmaster. 
She calls herself a “middle-woman” and 
I do not know what we would do without 
her. None of us are getting rich, but we 
have much more than ever before, and 
Miss Peyton says she is satisfied with her 
percentage. “I saw how short our farm 
women were for money,” she says, “my¬ 
self even more than the rest, and I saw 
much going to waste that might be sold, 
so I started out to see what I could do to 
help all of us a little.”— Mary S. Hitch¬ 
cock. 
Selling Late Vegetables 
HE best money for garden truck is 
made before and after others grow 
garden ordinarily. 1 have sold fall garden 
truck to good advantage and it is at this 
season that it is easier to grow as it 
comes on so much more rapidly. You 
can plan t corn after potatoes, plant beans 
for snapbeans in August and sell them 
freely for canning, plant beets about the 
same time, greens like mustard and 
spinach, even peas of the early sorts, and 
you will find them welcomed at this 
season when so little garden truck is 
available. Housewives like to can vege¬ 
tables in the cool fall weather and if they 
can buy them at a reasonable price will 
use them in quantity, and it is this 
quantity selling that makes it especially 
profitable.— Bertha Alzada. 
A VARIETY OF PATTERNS FOR HOME DRESSMAKERS 
TO ORDER: Write name, address, 
pattern numbers and sizes clearly, 
enclose proper remittance, in either 
stamps or coin (stamps are safer) and 
send to the Pattern Department, 
American Agriculturist, 4G1 Fourth 
Avenue, New York, N. Y. 
No. 2153—An attractive house dress which 
is comfortable and loose on any figure. It cuts 
in sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches. Size 36 
takes 3*4 yards of 36-inch material with pi 
yard contrasting. Price, 12 c. 
No. 2227—A one-piece style with short 'or 
long sleeves. If your last year’s dress was 
spotted down the front, make it over with a 
new panel front by this pattern. Sizes, 16 
years, 36, 38, 43, 42 and 44 inches bust measure. 
Size 36 takes 3*4 yards material. Price, 12c. 
Hot iron transfer pattern 706, in blue or 
yellow, 15c extra. 
No. 2256—Is the new straightline tunic- 
blouse with short or flowing sleeves. It cuts in 
sizes 16 years, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust 
measure. Price, 12c. Skirt No. 2073 comes 
in sizes 14 and 16 years, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 
and 48 inches bust measure (to scale). Price, 
12c. Hot iron transfer No. 729 (blue or 
yellow), 15c extra. 
No. 1528 — A cunning 
romper for a little boy or 
girl. Suitable for linen, 
gingham or ehambray. 
Sizes 2, 4 and 6 years. 
Size 4 takes 2 yards of 
36-inch material with 3/s 
yard contrasting. Price 
12c. 
4a 2153 
No. 14 3 9 — Girl’s 
bloomers and underwaist 
for wear in the “gym"* or 
on cold days. Sizes 2, 4, 
6, 8. 10, 12 and 14 years. 
The 8-year size takes \j4 
yards of 36-inch material 
i'or bloomers and */i yard 
36 for waist. Price, 12 c. 
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