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Show FEMALE BOOK CANVASSER. Russian Woman Who Is Said to Earn 850,000 at tho Calling Society Folk Her Customers. New York. Tho most successful book canvasser In this country Is u woman. Sho Is u Russian, nnd came over hero ten years ago, unablo to read or writo English. Now she Is earning 60,000 u your selling "special limited editions" tor u Philadelphia houso. This woman thinks It nothing to sell a set or books for $10,000, of which sho receives 40 per cent. Tho books, of course, aro supposed to bo bound In covors of special design, tho paper, printing nnd Illustrations aro of the 11 nest,' nnd tho edition Is snld to bo limited. Tho womnn sells tho books mostly to wealthy women. Sho drives up to their homos In n mngnlttcent carriage, car-riage, attended by a footman In livery She nover falls to Impress tho prospective pros-pective customer with hor rullneinent and frequently sho poses bh a Russian .-ountess. There is hardly a society woman In tho country who has not purchaser a set or books from this woman. |