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MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE
How I Turned Pleasant Hours at
Home Into Dollars
to replace that used in the socks sent to the
company. We wait until we have ten dozen pairs because the company pays the shipping charges on ten dozen or over.
The Auto Knitter Hosiery Company is an old, firmly established American corporation, engaged in the manufacture of high-' grade seamless socks. They have always , preferred home manufacture to factory production. They believe in the independent employee, and know from experience that the best work is that done by well-paid, contented people, working in happy homes.
The Company’s wide business connections give them an enormous market for socks—everybody, everywhere, needs them —and the company wall gladly take ,all the socks you can supply them with.
When you decide to become an Auto Knitter worker, as Laura and I did, the Auto Knitter company will make a contract to pay you a fixed guaranteed wage, on a piecework^ basis. In this contract you take no risk—you can work for them as much as you want, or as little as you want—spare time or full time. And for every shipment of socks you send them you will get your pay check—promptly.
You are, of course, at liberty to dispose of the output of your Auto Knitter as you see fit; you can also use the Auto Knitter to make, at a remarkably low cost, all the hosiery your family needs.
But remember this:	There are abso-
lutely no strings tied to the Wage Agreement; it is a straight out-and-out employment Offer at a Fixed Wage on a piece-work basis:—a good pay for your services alone.
No matter where you live I feel sure that you want to know all about the machine that has meant so much to Laura and me, and all the others in our “Make Money at Home Chib.” By all means write to the Auto Knitter company at once and find out about the pleasant occupation waiting for you—Auto Knitting. Find out what substantial amounts even a small part of your spare time will earn for you.
Remember that experience is unnecessary ; that you do not need to know how to knit. The Auto Knitter does the work.
I can never be thankful enough that Laura and I didn’t put off writing for information about it on that May morning when we were both so discouraged.
You will never regret writing for it either. Send your name and address now and find out all the good things that are in store for you.
The Auto Knitter Hosiery Co., Inc.,
Dept. 461-K, 821 Jefferson St., Buffalo, N. Y.
Send me full particulars about Making Money at Home with The Auto Knitter. I enclose 2 cents postage to cover cost of mailing, etc. It is understood that this does not obligate me in any way.
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Mooseheart 1-21
A Narrative
By Edna L. Rivers
neither did I. We stopped worrying about money. In August both our families had a wonderful two weeks camping trip in the woods, and we did it without Laura and I having to give up our “business.” In fact, we took it with us and it paid for our fun while we were having it.
And it didn’t take any more time than we have often spent on “fancy work” that didn’t bring a cent. Besides, the work was so simple that Laura’s Bobby and my little girl learned to help in the “business” too.
When my husband and Laura’s both began to take a hand at using the machines, we named our camp, “The Make Money at Home Club,” and the name has stuck. Since we have been back in town several of our neighbors, women who had also been battling-, with the high cost of living, have
joined our club
That is the
name of the wonderful little machine that has enabled all the members of our club to escape from the worry and heartache of making ends meet. How did we do it? Simply by knitting socks. No, not by the slow old process of hand knitting, which took about a day for one sock, but by using the Auto Knitter.
This marvelous, but very simple, easily-worked machine turns out fine, seamless wool socks with almost magical speed. Now that Laura and I have gained practice with the Auto Knitter we often make a sock in only ten minutes!
And the best part of it is that we have a guaranteed, constant market for every pair of socks we make, at a guaranteed price. The Auto Knitter Hosiery Company of Buffalo has contracted to take every sock our club turns out. Every member has a machine and as soon as we have a shipment of ten dozen pairs finished we send it right off and back comes the pay check by return mail, together with a new supply of wool
AURA COMSTOCK came over to my house one hot morning last May and threw herself down despondently in the
morris chair.
She is my next door neighbor and my closest friend, so it isn’t surprising that we share a good many confidences. I saw from her face and red eyes that Laura wanted to get something off her mind, so I said,
“Tell me the worst at once. Has Frank lost his job? Or has your Bobby put a button up his nose? Or have you spilled ink on the one and only Turkish rug? Or is it a real catastrophe ?”	/
Laura smiled a little in spite of herself and replied,
“No, I wish it teas a real catastrophe; then it would be over sooner—but I just can’t stand this-continual skimping and scraping of money! It’s just economize, economize, economize—and with all that Frank an$ I can do we never do more than make ends meet. Frank ought to get a good vacation this summer and we can’t afford it. I need some new summer clothes and I’ve got to make over my last year’s organdie and re-trim my old hat. And Bobby, well Bobby goes through a pair of shoes in almost no time, and they cost more now than his father’s used to. And to cap the climax Frank got a letter this morning saying that our rent is going to be raised ten dollars. Isn’t it awful? I think I have a right to cry!”
I agreed with Laura about that, for I was having similar worries myself, but I wanted to cheer her up a littls so I said,
“Well, if our husbands can’t make more money for us, let’s go into business for ourselves. You and I would make *fine partners. All that’s lacking is the business. What can we make, or do, that will sell ?”
Laura shook her head sadly.
“My dear,” she said, “there’s nothing I haven’t thought of—getting book subscriptions, embroidering, making fine cakes to sell, stenography, and a lot of other things. But the things I think of either cost too much to start, or they would take me away from the children just when they need me most. There are objections to all of them. It’s no use.”
She reached over to the table, picked up a magazine and began to turn the pages idly, while she tried to keep the tears back. Suddenly she sat up straight and began to read intently. I glanced over her shoulder and saw the words, ‘Make Money in Your Own Home.” We both read the page through without stopping. Then I said,
“Let’s send to Buffalo and find out all about it. It sounds good. I really believe we’ve found that business we were trying to think of.”
Well, we did send, and when the booklet and circulars arrived, we found that we really had found just the kind of business we wanted.
Now, after only a few months, the money situation is entirely changed in both Laura’s home and mine. She didn’t have to put up with her last year’s dress and hat, and