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Show 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 bv an expert ex-pert at a low cost. This work was taken up some months ago by au eu-terprising eu-terprising young St. Louis business n-oman. She had worked for several years at various positious, as order clerk, cashier, bookkeeper, for all kinds of business 'concerns. "When I started out," the voting 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 puz.led as to what I could mean by my work Tn such cases I gave practical tem.mstva- tons, by helping em to organize and tenijttlzetholracoot.nts. so that ihov m ,nh MW WOre Rcmrny Jt how Jhpfrl 7 Wl'e 1,,llkl1 whether their business was on pnyl asis. I found that so many merchants have Idea that !f they b , I , han se nt a certain ngui., hi -0 per cent or 30 per cent for over-oxpensc, over-oxpensc, to cover salaries, rent, light, etc., they are going to profit at the eud of a certain: "At the end of that time, I: many of them are no betttf when they started. I taw t to discover, through my sp managing books for large that one reason for their f tlon is that they do not cte-for cte-for their own services at : cost figure. They must hsfc-basis hsfc-basis of cost before mate selling price of goods. "I have been able to p'-to p'-to merchants nud shows ttf-do ttf-do It." |