Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1895 — A Pencil Sharpener. [ARTICLE]

A Pencil Sharpener.

A bright boy in the wholesale dry goods district of New York has a long list of customers whose pencils he keeps sharpened and who ajso patronize him for new pencils. He has a patent sharpener and goes from store to store and office to office, and he makes between $5 and $7 a week, working four or five hours a day. The manual of arms debars one from : social intercourse at a very early age. | “At-ten-shun company.’*