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can do. “Visit every place of business that you might serve; do not ask for
work, but leave your name and address, with telephone number, and suggest
that in an emergency they might be glad to know that you would work for
them. Ask the president of the woman’s club, the church societies, and other
organizations to announce that you are available. Contact the doctors and the
Red Cross nurse and the local Red Cross head. Ask other women, who are
doing what you are doing, to pass opportunities on to you when they are too
busy to accept the work. In turn, you must remember to pass work on to them
whenever possible. Have a telephone number, even if you have to pay a
neighbor to take calls for you. Many a hurry-up job has been lost because a
woman could not be reached by telephone. Don’t refuse small jobs—if it is
only for one hour’s work, take it; many such short periods of work add up at
the end of a month.”

The best way to discover how you can make money in your spare time is to
make a list of the things you can do. When you start to make this list you will
be surprised at the number of accomplishments you have acquired through
the years. The following list contains a number of activities that most women
can follow—in fact, you may be able to handle a half-dozen or more of these
jobs without the difficulty of their conflicting one with the other:

B ook revieW groups—Any woman who is “well read” will find an enjoyable
and profitable diversion in getting a group of fifteen to twenty women to
organize a reading club, and let her review current books. A club of this type
meets at the members’ homes about once a week, and a nominal membership
fee is charged from which the reviewer is compensated. One such reading
club in the Chicago suburban area has thirty members who pay $10 for a
series of twelve lectures or reviews. In this case, the woman who does the
reviewing arranges with a local woman to call up friends and get them to join
the club. In return for her cooperation her dues are canceled.

s hop for out-of-toWn Customers—The professional shopper in the small town
saves time and railroad fare for her customers. She need not charge them a
fee because the shopper’s discount given by city stores runs as high as 10 or
15 per cent. The shopper who makes a weekly trip to the city may earn as
much anywhere from $15 to $40 for the trip, and even more.