The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-04-19
GOOD ADVICE TO CLERKS.
dry Goods Chronicle I

1t Is a poor recommendation for pro
motion for a clerk to be seen nloping
about or stealthily reading novel 1t
is as injurious to the employer, as a
printed advertisement would be, that
business is dull.
Ii clerk OF either sex does not take
enough interest In the prosperity and
welfare OF an employer to refrain from
lounging about in lazy attitudes, or let
ting customers see that time hangs so
heavily on their hands they fain must
read to Till it, that employer would gain
more by the absence of that clerk.
70 seem busy and interes' ed at all
times is often up hill' work, but re-
member that your sleep!ess diligence is
factor In your employers success, and
ever increasing success to him means,
or ought to mean, larger remuneration
to the ever faithful clerk
Every clerk that seems listless and
assumes an indolent attitude imparts
that same spi-it, or lack of spirit, to his
or her neighbor, for indifference and
| lazlness are contagious.
Be animated, cheerful, helpful TO Your
fellow clerks, when your own work
slackens-fnd SOMETHING connected
with your business in which to be in
terested, for if absolutely interested you
cannot feel or act lazy.
In idle hours, fault too prevalent
| with saleswomen is gossiping with each
other OF their own private affairs-the
! new gown one aspires to-"Joe's" latest
witticism-or love passages of which the
| hero evidently had not expected such
public repetition.
Sometimes absorbed in their foolish
| egOtiSm, neither narrator nor listener
apparently can tear herself away to at
tend to business, and customer waits
several minutes to be served, her re
quest unheard or ignored
Could they but know the rialcale the
cheap and slangy recital calls forth
they would reserve their confidence for
another time and place, or better STILL
learn to enjoy something In life besides
such idle driyel and nonsense
Not that saleswomen do not need
nay MUST HAVE, recreative hours, but
the glamour of repeating silly sayings
intt nded for but one ear in the vanity
of displaying the alteration of some
poor benighted being, is reprehensible
in the extreme. It weakens the barrier
which every woman should jealously
guard-a feeling of delicacy too potent
to allow such matters talked over with
others.
As "a mans house is his castle" " so is
woman's modesty and self respect hen
crown of honor.
; Aside from this, why does she dull
| L. \
incidents Of her few leisure h. n y 4.
, PRODUCING them here-crowding then
into her business lie that needs hel
! every attention and interest?
She is as much on duty as sentine
stationed for the care and protection o
some stronghold.
Her stronghold is her employers ap
proval well deserved, and her time i.
/ | bis, let her fulfil her trust and all will
be we'll
: For sALEsNEN too, there il needed
i. some thought in this direction. All th
P careless clerks-all the indolent anf
trlflng clerks are not by any mean
b women
e TIE sly shrinking Of duties belongin,
to no special lndividual-the merel
Il putting in" the time until closing hou
and the fiirtations attempts to ogle lad
IF customers are faults that too much pre-
6 vail.
The latter may be only ''fun" an,
d thought harmless, but GENTLEMAN vii
e always bear ID mind that these attem pt
to lookeron may seem to be somethin
q more than idle fun
IS With true instinct exery lady likes {
be waited upon by a GENTLEMAN, an
will always seek him behind the counte
~ in preference to vain and shallow COZ
ae comb who thinks more about the in
III preston be is producing than the selin
of his employers goods.
!. A gentleman clerk will be assiduol
a to please lady as to her purchase
~ gallant, courteous and attentive bl
never for moment forget Tor what
= is behind the counter.