Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1898 — MONEY MAKING AT HOME [ARTICLE]

MONEY MAKING AT HOME

The Home Market the Best Market for Peraevering Woman. “The home market, at first, is always the best market, Jf the place number five hundred individuals,” contends Inez Redding in the course of a thoughtful article on “Finding a Market,” in the Woman's Home Companion, reasoning that “there should be no more false pride in trying to sell to one's neighbor than in selling to some one at a distance. False pride is generally the greatest stumbling-block in the way of the woman who wants to earn money at home. * * • “If one wishes to dispose of fancy articles of any sort, It is better, if capital permits, to first make up quite a goodly number of articles, instead of depending on a few samples and a glib tongue. The articles once made, a young boy or girl may be found to make a house-to-house canvass on commission. At a church fair one would probably be given permission to put in a table and sell as many articles as possible by paying a small sum for the privilege. Parlor sales of fancy articles are usually well attended. If you can succeed in some such way in first Introducing your articles, the way to success is sure, If one is willing to work hard and well. Even in small places, cleaning lamps, polishing shoes, machine-stitching and such occupation may be carried on successfully. The only way to do is to provide yourself with the necessary tools and then call at every house in the town. You may only receive a few orders at first, but one piece of work well done will surely bring you two more. Don't despise small tilings until you are independent. then turn over the work you do not wish to some worthy girl who would be glad of it.

“Don't write to some person in Boston or New York to know If there is a market there for some work for which you think you are especially fitted, or which you think you do unusually well. In undertaking any new work there are always many details to be learned of which the beginner never thinks. There are avenues open in every city for the sale of everything grown or made, but with the best to select from there is but little opportunity of disposing of ordinary articles. If you study to satisfy the home market you will learn, slowly but surely, how to do the work in the best possible, manner and ascertain just what the purchasing public demands. It will be a preparatory school of work, and it is better to graduate from it before attempting anything higher.