Show 11 f-f f 1 I t I t I t t IM H t t t t r r t r r r r r r t t t t t MAKING GOOD IN INA INA A SMALL LL TOWN Real Stories About Real Girls Gir By ay MRS HARLAND H. H ALLEN l H-l-H 1 I I 1 1 MH H 1 1 I I I I IM I'M I 1 1 M 1 I 1 11 1 I I 1 1 1 I 1 I I ITEA WEAVING TEA VING AS A MONEY WINNER WINNERT T EVERY VERY small community has hos one onek k- k who Is 18 known almost as ns the smartest girl In town In a small Missouri town to where families are old and events are slow and people do like novelties no there Is Just such a girl She Is n a professional professional pro pro- w weaver enver She makes sports blouses sweaters scarves girdles girdles- distinctive e and seasonal ones ones all all J light and soft MS liS cobwebs but durable durable dur dur- j dur-j able too She he began an In u a small way ay by selling ceiling her handiwork to the towns town's one smart shop now no she has hRs her own shop and workrooms No I didn't Just happen to weave she told me I III took toole It up deliberately deliberate ly Iy and seriously as fiS a profession I Y j 1 served ser as fiS an apprentice for tor two months a at a weaving studio in a dt city I near here and I really think I learned leaned more than I would have ha If r Td rd simply b 1 f I taken tal lessons This wn way you yO s see e when I started In business for m myself I knew not only how to weave but how to Instruct others who may work for or me occasionally how to buy materials materials mate mate- rials and most Important of ot all how to sell my products Here Heie are a few of the factors which she site feels were Important In making her success She n ah always B used good materials she practised her originality original original- ity ty and got a reputation for possessing possess ing It she It-she she knew that considering the small size of ot her town It would ne er do to make two things alike and she didn't want to Incur the wrath of some customer who had met herself herself herself her her- self on Main Street She was pleas 8 I ant Her prices were not so low that she couldn't make mone money neither were they so high that the they prohibited plentiful sales The girl who knows how to weave or decides to learn and who expects jo pi make weaving wea a profession should hould start b by making little articles ut at home showing them to her friends with the announcement of a n public sale gule that thatis la is coming soon Then preferably at some Borne pre holiday time she ma may give ghe ghea a tea selling her handiwork to friends and acquaintances If It she marks the articles sold as she die dla- poses poges of them It will help sell the others Later she may market all or part of her wares through some retailer The The shops offer another r opportunity opportunity to the town small-town weaver girl whose village Is not far tar from some metropolis 1924 UH W at m X Union ILI |