Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-08
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day. It's a sort of mutual affair, you
know
Here the forgotten floorwalker chimed
ITS like this, you know" he said.
1.-THE customer comes in cool and clean;
she's had her bath and she has all day
to herself, and then she ballyrags these
girls who have been standing on their
feet since before o'clock. It's shame.
that's what 1t is, and that kind Of
women ought to be showed up! That s
what. they ought to be showed up!'
$50 they should said the Interested
One. heartily.
The first girl, who has just waited on a
very corpuient colored woman for pair
of long white gloves, came up.
"Ain't it a sight. that they always ask
for flves. and think it's dreadful that we
don't handle any smaller than five-and-a-
but it wasn't no use. SO l sell EN- any
thing they ask for now, and when they
come back to exchange 'em and get left.
is my time to laugh. It's funny world.
amt it,"
The Interested One agreed and the
brown-eyed one came up just as she left.
Its the pills that'd drive you crazy"
she said, nodding grimly.
Up In a shirt waist department plump
and very fetching brunette answered the
query.
ooh, I don't know. Mean customers
make it awfully hard for US girls. of
course, but we get used to it, I guess
They seem to think it is necessary to
treat us mean to show they are ladies
themselves. We don't always think they
are ladies, but I don't suppose they care
what we think. Maybe If some Of US
had their chances we could show 'em
thing or two. Yes, sometimes we hand
'em remark but that don't make no
difference. Yes. indeedy, do wish l had
lots of things. It's like this. Sometimes
you see something you'd awfully like to
have and some old freak comes in and
takes 1t away. Sure! OF course. | know
I'd look better in 1t than freak. Who
Wouldn't" She laughed mischievously.
''Oh, I'd a lot rather sell them some
thing that looks well on them,' she re-
piled to another question. Il never talk
any one into buying thing that is not
becoming. l don't think it's right. OF
course. you know. if she is bound to
buy something that makes her look as
though she had fell off a Christmas tree.
that's her funeral. but as for me. I'd
rather she wouldn't" She excused her
self to wait on a customer
In one of the few stores that keep
open until $50 on the last night of the
week was found tall girl with the
fresh roses of youth and health in her
cheeks When asked the usual question
che answered with alacrity:
"Oh, the long hours Saturday night"
Upon being informed that the query
had no reference to the matter of over
work. she perceptibly lost interest.
though she was still sweet and friendly.
The next hardest thing is that the
customers seem to regard us as ma
chines,' she said. 1T looks sort of hard
to have them think of us in that way,
when we're just as human as they are
It's very hot in here. and we do get so
tired-anyway, l do-and 1t looks like
they ought to have some feeling Oh,
no. l don't mind showing them things,
if they'll only be half way nice to me-
Isn't it funny that nobody ever comes
in and says good morning to a sales
girl. They say it to their cook or their