People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1897 — A Novel Idea. [ARTICLE]

A Novel Idea.

A New York manufacturer of cigarettes has hit upon a novel idea for prei venting his female employees wasting their time in idle gossip. He employs an expert reader, who successfully engages the attention of the girls by readins aloud the most fascinating novels.