. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . d. ()ne day in glanc-ing through a magazine 1 read an adverti e-ment. 1 he advertisement said that any mancould make from a hundred to three hundreddollars a month during his spare time. I didnt it. 1 knew that I had work-nl hard eight hours a day for $ a week,and I figured that no man could make thatmuch during a couple of hours a day spare time. Hut as I read that ad I found tliat it pointedto men who h;id made that much and tlie last paragrajjh the advertiser offered tosend a book without co~t. I still I thought it
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . d. ()ne day in glanc-ing through a magazine 1 read an adverti e-ment. 1 he advertisement said that any mancould make from a hundred to three hundreddollars a month during his spare time. I didnt it. 1 knew that I had work-nl hard eight hours a day for $ a week,and I figured that no man could make thatmuch during a couple of hours a day spare time. Hut as I read that ad I found tliat it pointedto men who h;id made that much and tlie last paragrajjh the advertiser offered tosend a book without co~t. I still I thought it was woj th a two-cent siami),so I tore out the coupon and put it in mypocket and next day on my w,-iy home fromwork I mailed it. When I look back to thai day and realizehow elo-e I came to passing up that nd. it sends■cold chills down my spine. If the book hadcost me a thousaiid dollars instead of a two-cent stamp, it would have still been that I have today—an automobile, my home,an e-tablishedbusiness, a contented family-. all these are due to the things I learned that little eight-page booklet. There is no .secret to my success, I hawsucceeded beyond any dream I may have hadthree years ago, and I consider myself anaverage man. I believe that I would becriminally selfish if I did not tell other peoiilchow I made my success. All the work I have done has been pleasantand ca<y, and withal, amazingly simple. I amthe repre-entative in thi; territory for a rain-coat manufacturer. The booklet that I readwas one issued by that company. It tell: anyman or woman just what it told me. t ofTcrsto anyone the same opporlimtity that wa -offered to me. It will give to anyone tlu-same success that it has brought to inc. The Comer Manufacturing Company arc-one of the largest manufacturers of high-graderaincoats on the market; butthey do not sell through hey sell their coats throughlocal rcpre entatives. I helocal does nothave to buy a itock
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