Evening star., 1933-12-21

The world welcomes the person who.
no matter what his job may be, has
time to stop in the midst of it for a
pleasant word, or even smile, II moth
ing more.
One may be slightly suspicious of
him who is so intent upon his task,
whatever it may be, that he positively
cannot stop for second.
The knit brow, the worried look of
preoccupation, the unseeing eyes-what
are these but signs, except in a few oc-
one, not one mastering the job?
AT this season of the year the shop
girls give us all needed lesson in the
good art of being human while attend
ing to work.
These patient human beings, despite
the plain perp1exities of their jobs,
manage to smile, in the great majority
OF cases.
Some frown, of course; who wouldn't? :?
Nc one who has stopped to watch the
relationship of clerk to customer, and
customer to clerk, but has gone away
wondering at the amazing compleXity
OF it.
Here is a courteous woman who real
ICES the strain of the holiday season
upon those who wait upon her. and who
is willing to take into consideration the
perplexitieS which may come to those
who try to serve.
Here is another woman, but she is
not willing to take anything into con-
| sideration at all. And the clerk must
attempt to be as courteous and helpful
to her as to the other.
1t is no wonder, therefore, in the
gigantic maze of the hurried day that
the timid soul, whether man or woman,
is sometimes overlooked in the rush, or
that the masterful customer often gets
waited upon out of strict turn. These
things cannot be helped.
The happy thing is that there is so
much smiling, SO much desire to listen,
SO much willingness to be calm. Per-
fection is seldom attained, but that is
not to be wondered at, under the cir
cumstanceS. Perhaps every one is
helped by the realization that such
things cannot go on forever, that a
time of comparative peacefulness will
ccme again, that even the grouchiest
customer will be satisfied at last
Those who function in the business
world in less furry nevertheless labor
under the plain necessity of being as
| pleasant as they can. The frozen fare
seldom is justified in business. NobC "
| is a stranger to us in the business worll
All are our friends until they prove
| themselves otherwise.
This might seem to be fundamental
known to the most dumb, but that is
only theory. Actually one sees the
opposite line of thought neatly carried
! into action, and almost unconsciously
X
Here is a sweet young lady doing the
| honors in a big Office
A middle aged lady comes in. She
| is mistaken, all right, in what she had
been told, but she is here to do q
service
What she brings is brought to the
| told?
| Her heart is in the right place she
means well, and now she has been given
the run-around,' as some call it, hav-
Ing been sent from one place To another
because no one knew about the matter
| concerning which she was acting
| Here she is, at last, in the big ONCE
mild fury in her eye.
The sweet young lady looks at her
without a CLINT Of recognition in her
eye. The careful observer feels that
somehow, she should show recognition
not of her name, of course. nor of her
station in life, but surely of her attempt
to do good in an Indifferent world.
Some one, in the long line, should
have recognized this! Some one should