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Full Title	Chicago Ledger, v. XLIX, no. 5, Saturday, January 29, 1921.
Contributor	Anthony, Wilder.
Date Added	10 December 2014
Format	Newspaper
Language	English
Publish Date	1921-01-29
Publisher	Chicago, Ill. : W. D. Boyce Company
Source	Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Alternate Title	The Mortimer tangle / by Wilder Anthony.
Topic	Popular literature > Specimens. Story papers > Specimens.
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Disclaimers	Disclaimer of Liability Disclaimer of Endorsement

OCR T hat‘and old clothes on a bright A Howl EARN MONEY AT HOME I . A CHICAGO LEDGER 13 - . a -AND IN THIS WAY MAKE UP FOR .HENRY’S SHRINKING SALARY . . " ’Every Wife or Self-Supporting Girl Can Use‘Extra Money for Clothes. Thousands 6 g , Y dear, you should have seen I.‘ 9 her at church this morn- - i.ng. She looked positively 'dowdy.’ It's shame! y 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 the car. - over be- By MARY Are Now Making It Themselves-Right at Home-in this.Easy Way. WALDEN . ILLUSTRATION BY. F. M.iliIcANELLY That night I mailed the coupon from the advertisement to the Auto Knitter Hosiery Company. To make my story short, I found their prospectus so convincing and reasonable that I sent for and received an Auto Knitting outlit, including the wondertul little machine, the Auto Knitter. I kept the machine in the bottom “Well, you've been a ‘contrary Henry hasn't forgotten that I took up Mary‘-but I guess you’rc right. Let’s Auto Knitting without asking his ad- see how you do it.” vice, but he is glad now that I did, for So I took the light, portable Auto it helped us over the hard spots by Knitter out of the bureau drawer, quick- turning spare hours into dollars. , ly clamped it to the table, and showed Whenever I hear a woman complain- Henry how easily it worked. lhad had ing about the high cost. of living and enough practice by that time so that I clothes, I always try to tell her now made a pair of socks so quickly that the Auto Knitter will help her to make hind you. She might hear." ‘ The street car was crowded and they hadn't notice me be- ,fore', but I had heard-and my face flushed red with resentment and shame. It was rue-I did look “dowdy"-and I knew it. - ’There is nothing quite so de- pressing to a woman as an old Sunday mornlngin Springtime. ' I got off the street car at the ' next corner and walked the re- maining blocks to my home-and Henry. My cup of bitterness had . spilled over, and I needed a few ’rnluutes to choke hack the tears that wanted to run down my , burning cheeks. My - 'hnsband is one of the “white-' men” whose salaries kept pace with the ‘ mounting cost of living. I had . been a private secretary, earning a comfortable living for myself, 1 when we had married, and since . the cost of everything had kept. r rising higher and higher I had- i sometimes hinted to Henry that V ' I. would be glad to take‘ a posi- money at home in spare time. I tell her why the Auto Knitter Company, an old, firmly estab- lished American corporation, prefers socks of home manufac: ture to those produced in rush- ing, driving factories. I explain how their wide business connec- tions give ‘them an enormous market for‘ the good, honest, old- tlme wool socks, made by hand on the Auto Knitter 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 of their‘ workers to pay her a liberal, guaranteed wage, on a piece- work basis. ‘ - This contract leaves you per- fecily free-you can work for them as much as you want, or as little-spare lime or full time- ment of socks yhu send them you get your pay check-promptly. ' u are, of course, at liberty to dispose of the output of your Auto Knitter as you see fit; you - can also use the Auto Knitter to make, at a remarkably low cost, - all the hosiery your family needs -wool or cotton tron again, but he had always retoed the idea strenuously, Henry was “old-fashioned," and proud. His wife should never . . , . I have to .“go to work"-so I had gone on drawer of my bureau while Henry was sklmping and scraping-and wearing in tlle,house. >Whlle he was at the bank ' "made-overs." V . I used it every minute I could spare from But the bitter experience of this Sun-vmy housework. At the end of a month I day morning was too much. -I resolved sent my first shipment of soft, warm, as I walked homeward that, Henry or well-knit wool socks to tlle'colnpany. no Henry, I was going to find a way to By return mail come my first check- vmake extra money for clothes, and do it, and oh joy! the thrill of the sight of at least until things, took a turn for the that first check. ' . , ‘ ' 1>9“5-'1'- - ' . was bubbling with happiness, and When I got home I was prepared to be anxiety to tell Henry-but I waited until cheerful as usual, but Henry was com- the next evening. Then, when he came fortably smoking and absorbed in his home from the bank, I presented myself Sunday paper, and his contentment ‘before him in the pretty new accordion- Wmebow 3”"-“Rd 1115 l9TF5b1Y. To make pleated frock that I had seen advertised lnattersyorse he held up the magazines in Taylor and Parks’ < sale announce- picture section of the paper as I came ment in the aper. . into the room, and remarked that he had Henry's mouth opened and he just ‘never seen the girls wear "SlIC1!:g00d-.star'e'd at Inc in adroiration,,without 3 looking duds as they do this year.” ‘ . inully he managed to say',. Henry is really a perfect dear and "Where did you get it, Mary?" adores me, but he should have had more, "I earned it!" I-replied brightly, not sense. He sometimes shows no more sure just how he would take the news. comprehension of a vroman‘s pride than Henry looked for a minute as if I had a care-free Airedale puppy. I lost my said I hadstolen it. Then I made him temper. snatched the naperfrom him. sit down and heariwhat I had to say. and cried, A p -A “Now listen. dear," I'sald, gently but ‘ “If you like to see nice clothes :6 firmly. “don't youthink-it is perfectly much,'why don’t you buy your wife some ridiculous for us to pretend that you of them?" . ' .‘ earn enough money-just now?. You .’I'hen I rushed to my room, still car- will, of course, in time-but while ‘ tying the Magazine Section of the paper, things are so-expensive, and your salary shut the door, and threw myself across'doesn‘t keep pace, isn’t it fine that I can the bed for a good cry. Iienry came and make this money for the clothes I need, knocked and spoke to me, but I wouldn't and, the little pleasures and necessities let him in. . we couldn't afford otherwise?" After a while I sat up and began to Then I made my final attack upon idly turn the pages of the paper I had Henry's old-fashioned idea that “my taken away from Henry. All of; sud-, wife doesn‘t have to work." , dell I Eat “D straighter and gasped." A “You know as well as I do," I said. woman was looking out of the page at "that-it is the middle-class people who me, holding it bank-check in her hand, are having the struggle nowadays. ’and across the top of the page were the Everybody knows it. at the mar- words, "iIow I Make llioney-Right at ried women who have taken business llomelf' ‘ - positions to help out their husbands! I derourcd every word of the adver- Nobody thinks the worse of them for it. tlsement. When I had finished I felt Isn't my plan for making money in spare that I had found the work I was looking time at home, without neglecting you or for. I resolved to write for the partlcu- little Helen, better than taking a posi- lars. but to keep it a secret from my tionl Why, nobody needs to know a husband. After: a while I went out and. thing about itl" ' made up with hlnugot dinner ready. and That fetched llenry, as I was sure it we had a. happy afternoon together. would. lie said. . p - “It helped its over the hard spots , , ,. i by turning spare tune into dollars” ‘Henry's eyes nearlypopped out of his ad. ‘ -- “And you -say the Auto Knitter Ho- siery Company buys,the socks from you?" he a ked. ‘ v. - ' "Yes," I said, "they guarantee to al- ways take every pair I make-at a guar- anteed price. And they pay the trans- portation chnlgeson ten dozen pairs or "over, besides sending me the yarn to replace the amount used for the sucks I have sent them. So you see the yarn .hasn't cost me anything since the first .lot. I didn’t really need to buy any -yarn to start work,‘ for a generous -amount was given free with the Auto Kn’ t r," :1‘ to Henry was certainly astonished, and when he saw how easy and pleasant the work-was he said he had no objection to my continuing it.- So I kept- on Auto Knitting, sending the sucks I made to the Auto Knitter Company and getting my checks back promptly ‘for every shipment. - The result was that I didn't have to‘ go without any of the Summer things I needed.for myself or little Helen last Summer, and the Auto Knitter again helped to solve the clothes problem the following Fall and Winter. All this without my being obliged to touch a cent of what I call “the family money" -the money that Henry makes, He is succeeding much better now, but I still use the Auto Knitter regularly-‘-some times making socks to send to Buffalo, sometimes making them to sell to friends who have seen the strong, warm. long- wearing Auto Knitter Iiosiery and want some of it; and sometimes to make warm little knitted things for my little girl to wean. . A few evenings ago little llelen was riding on llenry's foot and she asked him to "slug a tune" forher, so he made this up, while he looked teasingly at me: p "Mary, Mary, qlllle contrary. - llow docs your income grow 1 By Auto Knitting hosiery, And woolen socks all in n row!" But. remember this: There - straight out-and-out employment agreement at a Fine Wage on a piece- work basis-a good pay for your serv- ices alone. No matter where you live I feel suro ' that you want to know all about the machine that has meant so much to me. By all means Write to the Auto Knitter Company, Dept. 361-K. 821 Jefferson Street, Buffalo, New York. at-once and: find out about the pleasant occupation waiting for you-Auto Knitting. Find out what substantial amounts even a . part of your spare time will earn for u. -2 5 Remember that experience is unnec- essary; that you do not need to know how to knit. The Auto Knitter does the work. , L I can never be thankful enough that ' I didn't put off 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- vertlsement. 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. ' . n ...-....-..-.....-...-.-.....-..--- The Auto Knitter lIosiery‘Co., Inc, DPDL 361-K. 821 Jefferson Street,- . Buffalo, N. Y. e Send me full particulars about Making Money at Home with the Auto Knitter. I enclose 2 cents postage to cover cost of mailing, etc. It is understood that this does not obligate me in any way” Nanle....:...‘............... . . , . . . . ... Addresa..2.... . . . . . I . (‘I-I32. Slam................'... . .. Boyce‘: ‘Vvklys. 1.22-29.4 or not at all-yet for every ship- , '

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