142. If none of these plans will work, and you know the woman to be responsible, get her to fix some time within ten days or two weeks when she will pay for the corset, and then write out and have her sign a due bill something like this:
- Date . . . . . .
- . . . . . days after date, I promise to pay Mrs. John Brown, the
Spirella Company's Corsetiere, dollars, value received.
- (Signed) "Mrs. John Smith."
143. When she has signed and delivered this paper to you, put it in your pocketbook, remarking that you will send it to The Company, and they will doubtless put it in the bank for collection, so she must look out for it, and be ready to meet it when called on. This will most likely induce her to "scrape up the money" rather than have this obligation placed in the bank; but if not, you may be able to sell it to some of her neighbors at a small discount and thus save at least a part of your profits on her order. If you should get a number of such obligations, your better plan would be to place them for collection with some local attorney, or sell them in a lump to the nearest bank or "note shaver." You must hold on to your orders tenaciously and make them good by some of the plans suggested, for in these orders lie your profits.
You will not need these rules for delivering, except in rare cases, for honorable people will always receive and pay for their corsets as agreed with no word of complaint. In fact, as a rule, the work of delivering the Spirella Corsets is a pleasure, for they are so much better than any other on the market that the ladies are always, delighted with them and pleased to receive them.
144. Never deliver corsets to be paid for in the future, unless the persons are legally responsible, and not then unless they will give you a note like the one suggested above. BETTER HOLD TO A CASH BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY AND NOT GRANT CREDIT ON-ANY BASIS WHATEVER.
SECTION 16.
- What To Do When a License is Demanded.
145. THE UNITED STATES Supreme Court has decided in several cases that all local laws taxing commercial drummers, canvassers or agents who sell by sample only, and who represent houses not located in the State where they are at work, are unconstitutional and therefore void. This court is the supreme interpreter of the laws of the Nation and its edicts must be obeyed. The leading cases in which this decision has been made and affirmed are as follows: Robbins vs. The Shelby County Taxing District, 120 U. S., 489 S. c., 8 Supreme Court Rep. 592; Corson vs. Maryland, 120 U. S., 502 S. C., 7 Supreme Court Rep. 655; Ex parte Insley, 33 Fed. Rep. 680; Simmons Hardware Co., vs. McGuire, Second Southern Rep., 592; State vs. Pratt, 9 Atl. Rep. 556.
