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Show Woman Is Auctioneer; Husband Is Her Clerk Bournemouth, England. When Mrs. Ernest Comer of Chrlstchurch road. Boscomhe, mounts the rostrum of one of the leading auction rooms In this town and begins wielding the hammer, dealers sit up and take notice. For although Mrs. Comer Is a pioneer pio-neer of her sex In the strenuous profession pro-fession of autloneeriug, she Is ac- , fcowledged by male competitors to be one of the cleverest In England. With true womanly Intuition she Is I keen to drive a burgaln, and this ability, abil-ity, together with the feminine "gift , "f gab," has contributed greatly to ber success. Mrs. Comer took up antloneering about ten years ago, when, owing to her husband's illness, she was com-pelled com-pelled to become the family bread winner. Mr. Comer acts as her clerk. Furniture Is Mrs. Comer's specialty, and her husband Is an expert on pictures. pic-tures. "But I have sold motor cars and "'any other articles by auction with success," she added. |