Show thac WIDOW BOOK AGENT arho clever way in which a idriz alit woman sold zier her wares the latest dodge g of the female book agent is to C get a room lit in a I 1 fashionable boardinghouse boarding house pay two weeks rent in advance move in her stock of books and sell them to the boarders without lettin letting them know who alio she is when asked for n P reference she brin brings s out a letter from the publisher for whom she works or his local agent A new york boardinghouse boarding house keeper tells how she discovered an agent in a beautiful widow who was stopping with iier her on sunday the widow came into the parlor with her arms full of I 1 illustrated lust rated books of history and portfolios of en engravings r akings she had thou thought alit some of us might like to look over her collection she said and of course we ave did not object although I 1 commenced to think my new lodger was taking it a great deal of pains to P please case the cord comparative para tive strangers I 1 looked over some of them myself and listened to her explain that they were from a collection of a very dear friend who had asked her to td take them to a secondhand second hand store the next lay day and sell them all of a sudden it struck mo me as quite peculiar that every one of those books was new and had been published recently moreover they were all published by one man and tk that at one man was the gentleman who had sent me such a warm commendation of my new boarder I 1 shut up the book I 1 was looking at and began to think a and nd listen and watch tho the widow b by y this time was surrounded by a dozen of my gentlemen boarders and three or four ladies and was discoursing on the merits of the books in ten minutes slie she had bad sold a book to every young man there simply charmed the money out of them by the power of her beauty she was so glad she said to think that her dear friend would realize it at least a portion of what the books were worth chicago news |