The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-14
PROMINENT WOMEN ACT AS
SALESGIRLS FOR CHARITY
Twenty-Five Spend Day at Gimbels Selling Goods
Tired but Pleased After Assuming Tasks of Wage
Earners-Others Will Try Their Skill To-day.

Composite opinions of the parties OF
the irst. second and third parts last
night. when twenty-five social leaders
ended their first day behind the counters
at Gimbel Bros department store. SELL
Ing for the benefit Of the Bellevue Hos
pital Welfare Service, would have been
something like this:
Amateur shop girls: Heavens. how
my feet ache. I'll certainly never be an
hour and a half buying a thing when
I'm a customer again. Where's that
powder pun
Real shop girls who coached them {:
We'll. they're kinda green. but what d
you expect7 They're real nice, honest"
Customers: Isn't II queer how you
couldn't tell 'em from the regular shop
girls by their looks " some Of EN- didn't
wear real pearls and II they didn't all
have those Red Cross badges on their
arms?"
BY the way. a wonan from Cleveland.
Ohio. who had been too busy seeing New
York to read in the papers about this
latest stunt for charity and so didn't
get the Significance OF the Red Cross
badges. got the Jolt Of her life after she
had kept Miss Dorothy Kissei two hours
trying blouses ON her and didn't buy one
after all. The Cleveland woman. slightly
irritated because Miss Kissel couldn't
find one big enough for her. expressed
her opinion Of the other in French TO the
meek man who accompanied her. 1t was
middle West French. but Miss Kissel
took II in. and probably the meek man
saw the look In her eye.
swist Change 70 Availability.
"sh' my dear" he warned. "Mebbe
h Understands"
New York shopsirls know French g..
Huh - scofed the Then she
turned to the reporter who fingered
near.
Wouldn't YOU think a girl would
learn how to sell things before she hired
" - she said.
"Oh. we'll. don't be hard on Them
said the reporter. ITS their first ex.
perience at this sort Of thing. You zee
New York social leaders are not trainet
In the art OF salesmanship. and they're
doing II for charity"
Social leaders," exclaimed the Cleve
land woman Say. lady. I'll take tina
pink waist. Never mind n II amt bis
enough I'll let it out. Henry sh,
added to the meek a won't Mis-.
Smith be envious when she sees me In 9
waist I bought Of one Of Moo York.
Fou Hundred? To think Of my neve
guessing what that band on her arm
meant?"
Well. II was a great day At Gimbels
and II began early toe. II wasn't
o'clock when Mrs. Joseph X Truesdale
chairman OF the Social Service Sale. ar
rived n punched the time clock. Mrs
T~ruesdale lived up TO the expectation
OF the small crowd of salesgirls and Gus
toners who watched her arrival, for sh,
wore amethyst earrings and a pear
necklace. Mrs. J. w. Fuller Potter to,
was highly satisfactory in a diamond
necklace and other jewels. but too man.
Of the amateur ~saleswonen dressed tn
part in black own n white collars
no pearls or diamonds or anything-an,
thus faileA to create the sensation som,
Of the spectators expected.
New F1oorwaiker Gets Orchias.
Mrs. Truesdale was hoorwalker for tn
day on the third Moor, where millineH.
ladies' wear. &C. are sold. and the regu
lar fioorwalker had a bouquet Of orchid