A "DAISY" FEMALE DRUMMER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1509, 22 May 1886, Page 3

A "DAISY" FEMALE DRUMMER.

" There is a new racket on the road," mid • commercial traveller $ "its a female drummer. 1 met her tbe other day, and she is a dandy. Of course she travels for a Chicago house, and she sella goods like a January thaw. She has been out so long now that ehe is as independent as a hog on ice. She lira in an ordinary railway car, and charges np sleeping berths in her expenses just like the rest of us. She walks to the hotels from the stations, and charges ap the hack fares just as We do. She beats the landlord down to Idol 50c a day, and charges the house 2dol 50c in the regular old style. She can taks care of bersrlf eyery day in the week, and she kuows how !o order np a bottle of wine and work it on the expense account, too. Why, when I saw her la c * wore a new silk drpss ahead of -ih« firm, and by New Year proposed to hsre a sealskin sacque oat of her expenses. And that isn't all—she has half of the hotel clerks in the North West mashed on her, and tha way the little rascal knocks 'em down on her bills is a caation. Fhe has a regular trick of staying oyer Sunday where one of her admirers runs the house, and she walks off on Monday morning forgetting to pay her bill. What does she sell ? That's the funniest part about it. You would think ahe would handle jewellery or millinery, or dry goods, wouldn't you ? But she doesn't. She sells gents' furnishing goods, and the fly young men usually keeping that kind of stores buy of her as if they hadn't Been a commercial Unreller for six months. She's a daisy, •nd I tell you its mighty lucky for the boys that there ain't any more like her on the road ."—Daily Herald, Chicago.