A CLEVER WOMAN

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 88, 14 April 1894, Page 2 (Supplement)

A CLEVER WOMAN

"There are more ways than one to make a living," said a demure little woman with flashing black eyes, who came down town in a School-street car the other night. " I know a woman who was left penniless in New York. She was riding on the elevated road one day when she was struck bythe sameness of the advertisements that are posted up in the cars. She thought that she could write good advertisements, and she thought out a lot of little four-line rhymes for a certain article. She submitted them to the advertising manager of that firm, and they were accepted, and now she is making a lot of money 'every j ear with her verses extolling various wares." "Pshaw?" said the blonde who eat next to tlio demure little woman. "I know of a case right hero' in Buffalo that discounts that." "I don't believe it," Baid the demure little woman. "Well, I do, and I'll tell you about it to prove it. A friend of mine who has been doing some newspaper work got the craze for writing advertisements, and she went around to a lot of stores, only to find that they were well, supplied with people to look after that branch of their business. She did find one firm who was willing to let her try her hand, and she began work. In less than a year she was comfortably well off. for the rest of her life. '• Did she invent some new style of writing, or something of that kind ? " asked the demure little woman. < "No," replied the blonde,' but she married the senior partner. — Buffalo Express.