Part 3

HOW YOU CAN EDIT AN INTERESTING COLUMN IN YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER

Go to the advertising manager of your local newspaper and buy one column of space to be used each day. Head the column:

“BARGAINS BETTY ROSS FOUND YESTERDAY”

“FOR WOMEN ONLY”

Next go out on a general shopping tour. When you run across something that appears to be an unusual bargain, or something very new and attractive, tell the storekeeper you will include it in your editorial to-morrow if he cares to pay you your regular rates of so much per inch. Your description of the article will depend upon how many inches of space he is willing to pay for. Your charge per inch should be about double the amount you pay the newspaper.

The value of this advertising is much greater than the average advertisement, since it appears to be a news item. Women will learn to watch for the bargains and new things you list, and it will be a genuine service to both women and storekeepers, as well as very profitable to you. Suppose you sell twenty-five inches of space each day at $1 per inch. The space would cost you 50 cents per inch, so you would make $12.50 per day.

“BARGAINS BETTY ROSS FOUND YESTERDAY”

“FOR WOMEN ONLY”

The Leader Store has received an assortment of white voile blouses in many pretty patterns which they are offering at $2.79. I find this price about $1 lower than the regular price for this quality of blouse.

The Star Furniture Company are offering small rugs 2½ ft. × 5 ft. for $4 each. The patterns are excellent copies of Oriental designs and are a great bargain at this price.

The Duplex Department Store has just received forty models of hand-beaded crêpe de chine frocks in all the latest colors, which will undoubtedly go very quickly to the wise early shoppers.

(Signed) BETTY ROSS.

P. S.—Telephone me at Main 246 if you desire information regarding where to buy. My services are free and I am always glad to become acquainted with my readers.

TEA ROOM AND GIFT SHOP

The tea room idea has become a permanent fixture in the average town. Women look for them and patronize them regularly. There seems to be a tendency toward tea rooms of the Colonial type. Read the monthly women’s magazines and you will find in most of them a column devoted to descriptions of tea rooms.

ROOMS

In a recent magazine there appeared an article written by a girl who had made a tremendous success operating rooming houses. Here was her plan:

She found ten girls who were rooming at private homes and taking their meals out the same as she. She told these girls if they were willing to pay her two weeks’ rent in advance, she would rent a home and furnish it. Each girl was to have a large bedroom completely furnished, and was to have access to a well-equipped kitchen and laundry. Cabinets were provided in the kitchen for each girl to keep her food and utensils in and a large refrigerator was also installed, which was always full of ice. Two large rooms downstairs were furnished as a parlor and reading room.

With her first two weeks’ rent, which she collected in advance, she paid one month’s rent for the house and made her first payment on the furniture which she bought on the installment plan. To-day she is operating six of these houses and is now serving meals to each roomer.

HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO SELL REAL ESTATE?

Read this woman’s story:

“Two years ago one of our neighbors moved away unexpectedly, so did not have time to sell their house. They told me I could have all above $5,500 that I could sell it for. I put a For Sale sign on the house, but made no sale. Next I ran a small For Sale want ad, but still no results. Then I had a picture taken of the house and had 2,000 handbills printed fully describing it. I distributed them all over town and posted many on fences and telegraph poles. Within one week I had dozens of people come to look at the house and sold it for $6,500. My total expense was $4.90; my total profit was $1,000. My advice is to go into the real estate business. Go out and find houses for sale, then make the owner a proposition to sell them. My profits this year will run over $5,000 clear.”

MONEY IN DYEING

Here is a profitable business you can get into without capital.

Go to your druggist and buy a few packages of dye. Experiment by coloring old clothes or rags. When you learn how to do the work perfectly, either advertise in the want ad column, or solicit work by personal calls. Every one has clothes, curtains, carpets or something which can be made to look good as new if they were only dyed. The cost of the dyes is negligible—it is practically all profit.

KINDERGARTENS

Why doesn’t some clever girl start a “Kindergarten of Culture.” In addition to the regular kindergarten course, devote one-half hour each day teaching the children the correct way to eat and act upon all occasions.

The idea will undoubtedly be successful.