Show WOMEN SUCCESSFUL AT DUNNING MEN New NeV York Sun And this man said the young Oung wo woman woI woman I man referring to the last lust name nam on the I list will win give me a check tomorrow without fall fail The manager mana r shook his head doubt doubtfully doubtfully fully full I dont take any stock in his promises lie he said raid He is tight as the bark on a tree and slippery as an eel He never pays anything till he has hIlS to Hes been giving us that same old ld gag about paying tomorrow for the thelast th thelast last six months And he will keep his word this time said saki the young woman conil confidently confidently dently And he did The next evening when she sIte reported at the office the young wo woman woman woman man turned in a check for the full amount owed by the tight individual The situation was so extraordinary that the manager scratched his head in perplexity Well he said you certainly certaInly er are a remarkably fine fino collector And after the young woman had eat eaten eaten eaten en her dinner and had t ken time to digest both the meal and the compliment compliment compliment ment she came to the conclusion that si s o e was indeed pretty good at the business It took me a long time tune to find lind out what I was good for she said saidI I tried my hand at teaching stenography stenography stenography raphy amateur gardening dressmaking ing lug and photography successively and was Waa a failure in each Then rhen I turned tu ned my mind to collecting My first employment was as with a small publishing house up town The owners owed everybody eve bod and everybody owed them They y paid nobody and nobody paid them It took me just about two days day to demonstrate to my myown myown own satisfaction that I had at last struck the level of my abilities I began straight off to take in money and when at the end of the first week the man manager manager manager ager footed up his receipts and anti found foum that I had collected subscriptions and advertising bills to the amount of 1000 which considering the size of individual accounts was a sum s m as high as Pikes Pike s peak he lie fell feU on my neck and called me blessed The Inn Orm was too deep in hi the mire however to be pulled out even by the hand of a enborn euborn collector Their liabilities HO so I far exceeded their assets that their 1 only salvation lay in bankruptcy and this last lut refuge they finally sought ought I when I had bad collected 99 cents on every I dollar coming coining to them I do not nott tell lj this in a spirit of vanity but bu simply to t refute the statement that a woman j earn arn her salt at collecting I 1 know a dozen women in this tow who ho hoare are so employed and amI each Is considered consid rell rella a x gem gem of great price by her employ employers ers era ersA eraA A West Side furniture dealers who has employed em loyed a woman soman collector for several years ars Id that if there was any anyone one thing he could take time to talk about even in Ills his busiest moments i FOtI l it was the merits of the woman col collector collector lector Jector There was a It time he said when I vowed that I have haye a petticoat around my m store in any ca en capacity capacity parity My lIy attention was first attract attracted ed to the subject by the quick way one woman collector made me pay a n bill Physically the work for this store Is hard There is much walling walking to be bedone bedone bedone done and many stairs to be climbed Moreover many of the people who buy our goods on the installment plan are disagreeable to deal with when It Itc comes c mes to collecting But that is where I find the woman collector coU invaluable Her fund of patience is inexhaustible and she Is inventive and resourceful to toa toa toa a degree If she cannot get around a creditor one way she will another and what is best of all she never gives up It is a curious that it is not in inthe inthe the field of distinctly feminine labor such as dressmaking millinery and the I like that the woman woman collector seeks to win her laurels When asked why this was was so one successful collector re replied replied replied plied that it was W a n case Cuse of the refutation refutation tion of the theory ory that like cures curee like It may take tak a thief thi f to catch thief but it doA d n t take tak a woman to t make m ke another woman pay pa her debts she said I am the manager m of or a n large 1 collecting agency I L have both men and women in my employ and when 1 I have a bill against I I invariably invarIably send a man luau td lect It Women who owe money nione know well enough that another woman sent to collect a bill can see right through their subterfuge subterfuges subterfuges fuges fuge no matter how ho flimsy flims or how plausible They do not Jot care a straw for her opinion however but they the dont want to be found out by the themen themen themen men menA menA A A Nassau street lawyer lawyel employs a woman collector whom he regards as asan asan an honor to her sex and the calling 1 dont always ahra 8 collect the money I set setout setout setout I out to get she said when complimented on her achievements and anti con consequent consequent consequent sequent reputation lon fA A year ago agol I set setout setout setout out to collect 1250 1256 fr m im a client of or my employer Go up to his office every everyday everyday everyday day were my employers instructions Dont give him a x minutes peace Hound the very life out of him till he pays Just walk alk right in no matter mattel who is there and demand that 1250 He cant turn you out because I did for him what no other lawyer In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York could have done and it behooves him to be humble For three months I obeyed those instructions literally I traveled up and down the elevator so often that I everybody bodY In the fhe fh building came to know me as s dun d n and the man listed hated the very sight of me One day I was sick and go down town A second day I stayed away awa and still sUIl U third About 2 oclo k on the after afternoon afternoon noon poon of the third day as my employ employer er ci sat t In hi hi his private Office talking to a client the door was opened suddenly and an 1 a towheaded little boy stepped stepp d au audaciously audaciously into the room Say he said Im s boy an ans I my mYbon boss wants to know why that wo woman woman man aint been over for that 1250 1 50 he I owes you r I T r positively refused to call after t that tha and we never did get the money But you dont come corne across many peo people pie like Uke that |