The Door-to-Door Selling Nuisance

Ladies' Mirror, Volume 5, Issue 5, 1 November 1926, Page 37

The Door-to-Door Selling Nuisance

Hints on How to Heal With It bother! Another of those people selling things!” This is no infrequent exclamation of the busy lady of the house nowadays. All manner of people with wares to sell are causing interruptions and distracting attention from duties in hand through their efforts to sell goods by calling at the home. Invariably the seller has goods to sell which, he claims, are much cheaper than can be purchased elsewhere. But will his claims bear analysis? Or is he merely making a statement, wasting your time, and inducing you to waste your money? As most of us cannot judge the value of a particular material, garment or commodity except by comparison, the only really safe course in buying such goods is to buy where the comparison can be madein the stores. But there is one other very important factor in the buying of goods which must not he ignored. The sheer joy of buying new things where one can pick, choose and compare is more than half of the tonic effect which comes from zvcarhifi them. The beneficial, the tonic effect of buying, and using or wearing new tilings is a fundamental principle which is becoming generally recognised. There is a lot of wisdom under Stephen Leacock’s fun when he describes one of his characters as having “all the mental vigour of a man in a new suit.’’ The wise woman, therefore, will not permit herself to be robbed of

this pleasure for the claimed saving of a shilling, which claim, by the way, has no foundation in truth. She cannot prove value without close comparison. But there is another side to the question of buying in the home—namely, that some goods can be bought better in the home than anywhere else. No woman can extract any elation from buying a new floor scrubber or pot cleaner, yet both articles have real use and importance in the household. Throughout the world, men and women arc devoting their time and thought to means of reducing the labour entailed in the running of the ordinary household. One of the greatest contributions to this end is that of the Fuller Brush Company. Yet in the very nature of things the only really sound place in which to buy brushes is in the home—where a demonstration of their uses can be given. The products of this Company are the result of concentrated thought on the problems of home cleaning, and are built to change a labour to a light duty. But the accomplishment of the purpose for which they were built depends, upon their proper use. In no way can this be better shown than by the demonstration given by the Fuller Man. The Fuller Men are trained in the science of home management, and bring to the woman in the home a fund of help and information. But, more than that, give it freely and happily, whether one has a need for Fuller products or not. Advt.