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Show light, etc., they are going to make a v profit at the end of a certain period. "At the end of that time, I find that many of them are no better off than when they started. I have been able to discover, through my experience in managing books for large concerns, that one reason for their miscalculation miscalcula-tion is that they do not charge enough for their own services at a correct cost figure. They must have an exact basis of cost before making out the selling price of goods. "I have been able to point this out to merchants and shows them how to do it" NEW PROFESSION FOR WOMEN Itinerant Bookkeeper Works for Merchants Mer-chants Who Do Not Need Her Services All the Time. A profession that Is comparatively new, especially for women, is that of Itinerant bookkeeper, the New York Evening World states. It enables merchants mer-chants who have not enough work to fill the time of a regular bookkeeper, to yet have their work done by an. expert ex-pert at a low cost. This work was taken up some months ago by an enterprising en-terprising young St. Louis business woman. She had worked for several years at various positions, as order clerk, cashier, bookkeeper, for all kinds of business concerns. "When I started out," the young woman stated, "I had cards printed stating my work. These I sent out in large numbers to business men. Then I followed them up by personal calls. I found business men much puzzled as to what I could mean by my work. In such cases I gave practical demonstra-. demonstra-. tlons, by helping them to organize and . systematize their accounts, so that they might know more accurately just how much they were making, and whether their business was on a paying basis. "I found that so many merchants have an idea that if they buy merchandise mer-chandise at a certain figure, then add 20 per cent or 30 per cent for overhead over-head expense, to cover salaries, rent, |