The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 31, 1921, Page 16

"HOW I EARN MONEY AT ' - AND IN THIS WAY MAKE UP FOR = 'HENRY’S SHRINKING SALARY £ Avi g - haven’t kept pace with the . to make extra money for clothes, ~Sunday morning in Springtime. - have to “go to work”—so I had = Every Wife or Self-Supporting Girl Can Use Extra Money for é)lothes. Thousfinds s s Are Now Making It Themselves, — Right at Ho By MARY WALDEN < Y dear, you should have - seen her at church this - morning. She looked positively ‘dowdy.’ It’s'a shame! Mary used to be such a well-" dressed girl—until she married that bank-clerk. I should think he’d feel like——" “Sh-h-h! "~ She’s on this car. ’ Over behind you. She might hear.” £ The street car was crowded and they hadn’t noticed me be- fore, but I had heard—and my face flushed red with resent- ment and shame. It was true— I did look “dowdy”’—and I knew - it. There is nothing quite so de- pressing to a woman as an old hat and old clothes on a bright I got off the street car at the next corner and walked the re- maining blocks to my home— and Henry. My cup of bitter- . ness had spilled over, and I need- ed a few minutes to choke back the tears that wanted to run down my burning cheeks. I didn’t want to make Henry . Then I rushed to my room, still car- rying the Magazine Section of the paper, shut the door, and threw myself across the bed for a good cry. Henry came and_ knocked and spoke to me, but I wouldn’t let him in. After a while'I sat up-and idly be- fiag tokturn the agesiI of the Rz]alpe;' I . ~had taken away from Henry. of a feel worse than he did already ~gudden I sat up straighter and gasped. about our money situation. My A woman was looking out of the page - husband is one of the' “white- . fit Iéle. l:iolding afl})mék-ch%cléhin her- » jeq - hand, and across the top o e page collar ~men whose salaries were the words, “How IpMake Money —Right at Home!” I devoured every word of the adver- tisement. When I had finished T felt that I had found the work I was look-_ ing for. I resolved to write for the particulars, but-to keep it a secret mounting cost of living. I had been a private secretary, earn- ing a comfortable living for my- self, when we had married, and since the cost of everything had ' from my husband, After a while I kept rising higher and higher I went out and made up with him, got had-sometimes hinted to Henry dinner ready, and we had a hapl.:lv that I would be glad to take a afternoon together. That night I mail- e o ed the coupon from the advertisement position again, b'Ut he had al- o the Auto Knitter Hosiery Company. ways vetoed the idea strenuous- To make my story short, I found ly. Henry was “old-fashioned,” their prospectus so convincing and and proud. His wife should never ed an Auto Knitting outfit, including’ A F A the wonderful little machine, the Auto— gone on skimpihg and scraping Knitter. - —and wearing “made-overs.” I kept the machine in the bottom But the bitter experience of drawer of my Rurean Wl}:fle Hemry was 433 : : in the house. ile he-was at the this_Sunday ~morning was too bank I used it every -minute I could much. T resolved as I walked_ spare from my housework. At the end homeward that, Henry. or no off% month I sefi:tk;lq%r firsti shipment fif 3 soft, warm, well-knit wool socks to the Henry, I was going to find a yay. company. By return mail came my first check—and oh joy! the thrill of the sight of that first check. Well, I kept on making socks, send- ing regular shipments to the comraqy, and before long I presented myself be- fore Henry in the pretty new accor- and do it, at least until things took a turn for the better. When I got home I was prepared to be cheerful as usual, but Henry was comfortably smoking and absorbed in 0 his Sunday paper, and his contentment dion-pleated frock that I had seen ad- somehow irritated me terribly. To - vertised in Taylor and Parks’ sale an- make matters worse he held up the - nouncement in the paper. : magazine-picture section of the paper His mouth opened-and he just star- as I came into the room, and remarked ed at me in admiration, without a that he had never seen the girls wear word. Final}ly he managed to say, “such good-looking ‘duds as they do ‘° “Where did you get it, Mary?” this year.” Vorohse “I.earned it!” I replied brightly, not Henry is really a perfect dear and = sure just how he would take the news. adores me, buf he should have had 1 i more sense. He sometimes shows no. -had said I had stolen it. Then I made more comprehension of a woman’s ~ him sit down and hear. what I had to ride than a care-free Airedale puppy. say. o ~ : f ‘Now listen, dear,”-F said,. gently lost my temper, snatched the paper _said, . | from him, and cried, but firmly, “don’t you think it is ?er- “If you like to see nice clothes so fectly ridiculous for us-to pretend that much, why don"t you buy your wife ou earn enough—money—just now? some of them?’ 5 3 ou will, of course, in time—but while Mention the Leader When Writing Advertisers =2 2+ “It helped us over the hard spots by turning spare hours into dollars” - Knitter out of the reasonable that I-sent for and receiv-""" .—at a guaranteed price. Henry looked for a minute as if I - [ n,u'-mm]' WI things are so- expensive, and your salary doesn’t keep pace, isn’t it fine that I can make this money for the clothes I need, and the little Pleasures_ and necessities we couldn’t "afford otherwise ?” Lt . Then I made my final attack upon _Henry’s old-fashioned idea that “my ‘wife doesn’t have to work.” “You know as well as I do,” I said, “that it is the middle-class people who are having the struggle nowadays. Everybody knows it. Look at.the mar-. ried women who have taken business %ositions to help out their husbands! obody ‘thinks the worse of them for it. Isn’t my plan for making money in spare time at home, without neg- lecting you or little Helen, better than taking a position? Why, nobody needs to know a thing about it!” That fetched Henry, as I was sure ‘it would. He said, “Well, you’ve” been—a ‘contrary " Mary’—but I fuess you’re right. Let’s A ’ see how you it So I took the light, portable Auto’ ureau drawer, quickly clamped it to the table, and showed Henry how it worked. I had had enough -practice by that time so that I made a pair of socks so quickly that Henry’s eyes nearly popped oyt of his head. . : “And. gou say ‘the Auto Knitter Hosiery Company buys the socks from you?” he asked. e R -~ “Yes,” I said, “they guarantee to al- ways take every standard pair I make T And they send . me the replace . the yarn to _amount used for the socks I have sent them. So you see the yarn hasn’t cost me-anything since the first lot.” Henry was certainly astonished, and when he saw how fascinating the work was he said he had no objection to my continuing it. - So I kept on Auto - Knitting, sending the socks I‘made to the Auto Knitter Company and get- ting my checks back promptly for every shipment. The result was that I didn’t have to.”- go without many of the things I need- ed for myself or little Helen last Fall and Winter, and the A All this without my being obliged to * touch a cent of what-I call “the fam- ily money”—the money that Henry makes. _ He is succeeding’ much better - : now, but T:still use the Auto Knitter - Te, rly—sometimes making socks to: .. gend to Buffalo, sometimes making B 4 e oA AT uto - Knitter again helped to solve the clothes prob- - lem the following Spring and Summer. - me —in this New Way. Them to sell to friends who have seen the strong, warm, long-wearing Auto Knitter Hosiery and _want some of it} and sometimes to méke warm little knitted things for my little girl to T, - A few evenings atgo little Helen was . riding on -Henry’s foot and. she asked him to “sing a_tune” for her, so he made this up, while he looked teasing- ly at mes» - “Mary, Mary, quite contrary, = How does Igour income grow? . By Auto Knitting hosiery, = And woolen socks all in a row!” Henry-hasn’t forgotten that I took up Auto Knitting without askinf his advice, but he is glad now that I did, for it fxelped us over the hard spots by turning spare hours into dollars. . Whenever'I hear a woman complain- _ ing -about the high cost of living and clothes, I' always try to tell her: how the Auto Knitter will help her to make money at home in spare time. I tell her how the Auto Knitter Com- ‘pany, an old,-firmly established Amer- lcan corporation, has an enormous market for the good, honest, old-time wool socks, made by hand on the Auto Knitters of their home workers. 'Then I-tell her, just as I'am telling you, that - - the Auto Knitter Company will make -a contract with each owner of a ma- chine to pay her a liberal, guaranteed wage, on a piece-work basis. is contract leaves you perfectl{ free—you can work for them as muc as you want, or as’little—spare time or full time—or not at all—yet for every shipment of socks you send them you get your pay check—promptly. You are, of course, at liberty to dis- pose of the output of your ‘Auto Knit- * ter as you see fit; you can also use the Auto Knitter to make, at’a remark-. ably low cost, all the hosiery your family needs. - < : But remember' this: There are ab- solutely no-strings tied to the Wage Agreement; it is a straight out-and- out agreement to pay you at a’ Fixed Rate on a piece-work basis—a good return for your-services. No matter where you live I feel sure that you want to know all about the machine that has meant so much to me. By all means write to the Aato Knitter Comgany, Dept. 5410-K, 630- 632 Genesee St., Buffalo, New York, at once and find out about the pleasant occupation _waiting for you—Auto Khitting. Find out what substantial amounts -even a ‘part of your spare time ‘will earn for you. - . ; I can never be thankful enough that - I didn’t put o writing for information - about it that Sunday evening when I took the paper away from Henry, and opened it later at the Auto Knitter ad- vertisement. e N e ..You will never regret writing for it, either. Send your name and address now and-find out all the good things that are in store for you. J THE AUTO KNITTER HOSIERY: B Dept. 5410-K T, 30-632 Genesee St., Buffalo, N. Y. Send “me full particulars about Making Auto Money at Home with the 1 enclose 2 cents postage to :" r cost’ o mailing, ete. -It is unders that this does not obligate me in any way. . ..................................... 9 6 g ® 6 Nonpartisan Leader 10-31-21 Mentionthe Leader When Writing Advertisers