Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1892 — A Milliner’s Drummer. [ARTICLE]

A Milliner’s Drummer.

Women have long been drummers for articles of female apparel. Many milliners send their representatives from one small town to another to take orders for hats and bonnets. Such women have a right to be enrolled in the noble army of drummers without further question. I knew a milliner s drummer once, says Charlotte Adams, in the New York Journal. I met her at a New York boarding-house. She was a very pretty girl and she wore a pea-green cashmere gown made with slashed sleeves and plenty of diamond jewelry. I took her to the theater and ice-creamed her freely after the performance. She was also a buyer of milliners’ goods, and her business at New York was to purchase for half a dozen business houses. The last time I heard of her she had taken a young man to support. Why, indeed, should women not be drummers? They are quite as able and active as the men, and have far better manners. They do not ogle ladies, they do not run after actresses, they do not run up hotel bills at the expense of their employer and they do not buy new elothes out of the money allowed for “extras.” CoMPiiiMEXTs which we think are deserved we accept only as debts, with indifference; butthose which conscience informs us we do not merit, we receive with the same»gratitude that we do favors given away.