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It was the same old story of the world beating a path to the door of the person
with quality merchandise—except that Mrs. Rochester did not wait for this
path to be beaten. She went out and told merchants about her handkerchiefs.

Today Mrs. Rochester not only sells handkerchiefs to merchants in every
state in the country except three, but to foreign countries as well. Foreign
orders grew so fast she opened a branch factory abroad to expedite export
business.

Start a Pie Bakery

F

IVE years ago in Benton Harbor, Michigan, the John Mayers started a pie
bakery. If you want to buy cake, cookies, bread or doughnuts, you have to go
elsewhere to make your purchases; the Mayers’ idea was to do one thing
superlatively well and they have succeeded in baking pies that are good
enough to keep people coming back for more. The market for their pies
consists of hotels, restaurants and the near-by summer resorts. Quite a few
are sold direct to consumers at thirty-five cents a pie.

The usual demand in any American community for good pie has enabled the
Mayers to build up a profitable business, keep up a nice home which they
own, have a car, and provide a comfortable living. There is a limitless market
for pies as practically every other man who enters a restaurant orders pie even
though he knows it may not be particularly good. Just why there are so few
good pie bakers in a country where dessert generally means “pie,” is one of
the great unsolved mysteries. There is really no competition for the person
who has the knack of baking pies like those “mother used to make.”

$100 per Month with Felt Work

R

UTH G. JONES , a widow living in San Antonio, needed money and needed