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Evening Star, Issue 4125, 17 May 1876, Page 3

WOMEN AS COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS. A t the annual meeting of the American Commercial Travellers’ Association in Philadelphia, the vice-president, in the course of a humorous address, said— Another vital question was the competition of female labor. Several houses had adopted the practice of sending out female drummers. He need not say that his heart beat high for women, but he also had old-fashioned ideas on the subject. Women was too high, too holy to descend into the arena of everyday life, where inevitable contact with the rude and muddy world must soil and muss the angel robes of her soul. What was a woman without modesty ? Aye, and what was a drummer with it] * (Cheers). He had seen female book agents, and their boldness had brought a blush of shame to his cheek—very nearly, that is. No ! Let woman keep to her sphere. Let her be the faithful wife whom one could leave at home when he was on the road; the tender maiden with whom flirtation on the oar was possible; the devoted chambermaid or tablemaid, on whom oride made an impression that gold could not have made on the blase belles of Saratoga, but never, never let her enter a profession where sho has everything to gain, and .they everything to lose. —(Applause.)