When these feather comforters were made in the manner above described, they sold readily for $20 to $30 each, and, inasmuch as she made as high as twenty to twenty-five of them in a single season, her income from goose and duck feathers may easily be estimated. A comforter made from the breast feathers of ducks alone often brought $40.
PLAN No. 449. BOTANIST FOR U. S. SEE [PLAN No. 217]
PLAN No. 450. MAKING GAS MANTLES PAY
In an eastern town, where gas is still used for lighting stores, a little lame old man is said to make from $60 to $75 a week by taking contracts to keep gaslights in stores and offices supplied with mantles, which he makes himself, and by cleaning and polishing the fixtures. His charge is 50 cents a month per light, and he has many hundreds of these to look after, sometimes having as high as forty or fifty in a single store.
PLAN No. 451. BUSINESS MGR. FOR U. S. SEE [PLAN No. 217]
PLAN No. 452. ONE GOOD SELLING PLAN
Mail-order people have many different selling plans, most of which bring good returns, but an agent in Ohio made quite a success of the plan briefly outlined as follows:
Selecting from the articles offered by a mail-order supply house one that usually retailed at 15 cents, but which cost him 8 cents, including postage, etc., he had a neat circular letter printed describing the article in detail, its uses and advantages, and offering it at 9 cents, if ordered within a certain time. These letters he sent to all those names he had secured in former mail-order transactions, explaining that every once in a while he offered special bargains in some article or other, and that this was one of those occasions. As most people already knew it was really a 15 cent article, he received a large number of orders, and when sending the article he enclosed another circular letter, quoting the prices on the other lines of articles, on most of which there was a fair but not extravagant profit. These also brought many orders from new customers, and by continually enlarging his list, and quoting his articles as close to cost as possible, he gradually built up a permanent and profitable business.
PLAN No. 453. EARNED HIS WAY THROUGH COLLEGE
Two young men in a northwestern city wanted to be lawyers, and both wanted to go to Ann Arbor, Michigan. One had some money, the other had not. The one with money loaned his friend $100 and with $50 saved he had a total capital of $150.