Evening star., 1922-07-16

so far as her trinlv snod fast were
concerned, is purely hgura,iVe. TOT
Nan drove the car to the station. Her
father. who had played hooky from
business to see her off sat beside her.
Her mother was in the rear seat.
shes so reckless" mourned Mrs.
Wrenn to herself. "Oh, how l wish
shed never seen that book.
-he book she referred to was Mod
ern Woman and Business 1t was
supposed to be inspirational. AT that
moment however. Mrs. Wrenn would
have catalogued it among the works
of the devil.
oh, dear she murmured as Nan
came to a stop at the station plat
form. III I'd only been firm
Nan. however. was swinging free Of
the steering wheel with the 1.-the
grace of her years, which totaled
twenty-five. There was not such an
awful lot of her. but what there was
was crisp and decisive. Her hair was
frankly brown unalloyed, but il was
pretty. and she was wise enough to
wear it in a way that revealed the
lines of her shapely little head AS
she thrust a stray |wisp of it back into
place she turned gray. beautifully
dashed eyes toward her mother.
Now do be a duck. little mother.
she beseeched III be with Aunt
Jennie and nobody is going TO kinadp
me-"
THE train was whistling for the
curve. and so she broke off TO
give her mother a kiss and a hug.
Then she turned to her father, He,
having swallowed his emotions, man.
aged to smile quite creditably.
Well Nan" said he. Il suppose
you'll come rolling home in five
thousand dollar automobile and lift
the mortgage on the old homestead.
Mans mother produced a handker-
chief Give my love TO Aunt Jennie"
she whispered. "and be sure to wear
your rubbers."
And so Nan went to Boston. her
fortune for TO make. She had set
herself definite goal (as the book
rccommendedl, and a week later the
Leicester Item. which ever follows the
fortunes of Leicesters sons and
daughters afeld. announced her first
step on the journey toward this
Miss Nanctte Wrenn of Wes;
Leicester has accepted a position in
Endicotts. the big Boston department
store. She is employed in the china
department, on the fourth floor there
Her many friends wish her all sue
GEES
Now. Endicotts, in Boston. is
typical department store. with two
hundred odd departments. The fourth
floor is the province of china, bath
room fixtures. kitcherl3are. glassware.
candlesticks. laundryttSrnishings. Are
place fixtures and OF vast, barren
vistas. with here and there a sup
porting pillar. behind which sales
ladies may hide. like startled nymphs,
from prospective patrons. In short
the fourth floor of Endicotts is like
unto the fourth floor of any depart
ment store displaying similar wares
Or at least it was until Nan appeared
there to assist the blonde and viva
cious Miss Mulcahey.
Miss Mulcahey's friends called her
Mae That privilege she graciously
extended TO Nan forthwith.
80 long dS VIC SteSf> ~ sAA'S
hole" said she we might as well be
friends. Us girls ought to stick to-
gether. That's my motto
Composedly she patted the blonde
puff that fared wide from either ear.
II don't hafta work." she explained.
Ma was simply wild when 1 gotta
Job. But no girl wants to stick about
home"
Nan tried to look impressed and
apparently succeeded. For:
I'll show you the ropes" offered
Mae. I'm not the sort that tries to
cut a new girl out of all the sales"
Nor was she.
will you please show this lady
plain glass tumblers. Miss Wrenn?"
she would suggest ever SO graciously.
OF course. IL the customer hap
pened to want dinner sets. that was
different To what she termed the
swell trade Mae condescended.
I've been here longer" she ex-
planned to Nan. "and know how to
handle that sort. What you want is
experience
Experience was indeed what Nan
was after.
The goal of most ambitious young
saieswomen is to become one OF the
fabulously salaried buyers vino go
abroad two or three times a year.
The buyers job is one of the
biggest in the business. requiring
fine grasp of human nature. knowl-
edge of commodities and administra-
tive ability of the highest order. The
aspirant is interested in
more than the details of her own job.
The manufacture of the articles she
sells. their history
n r ~
THUS Modern Woman and Busi-
ness" speaking as a prophet! To
Nan. Endicott's was an empire to be
have been set down in some other
province than chinaware. where the
overturn is slow and the possibilities
of achievement fewer. but. as china
ware it was. she mapped out her cam
paign and put it into execution.
What d'y' know" eclaimed Mae to
one of several masculine admirers.
"She went up to the public li-b'ry and
got some books on the hist'ry of
china Not the country where they
eat rats. silly, but the china like we
have in the department-how it's
made an all that. Can you beat it?"
In the public library, even as Mae
had said. Nan found the books she
wanted These she studied with the
zeal of Young professor preparing