mployment department. The head of the department will be
certain to note her appearance carefully. The girl should make sure that
she is cleanly and neatly dressed; she should speak quietly and politely;
and she should show that sincere willingness to be cheerful, obliging, and
agreeable which she will find one of the best aids in her life both at work
and at home. To enter a store no particular training is required. The girl
leaving school when she is fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen, who is able to
read and write correctly and who has a thorough knowledge of the common
rules of arithmetic can hope to obtain a position in a store.

Having once obtained a position in a large store, the girl will find
herself part of an establishment where perhaps hundreds or thousands of
people are employed. It is probable that her position will be an easy one
suited to her age, without much responsibility, and with small pay, but,
if she shows interest and willingness to learn, she will be in line for
promotion. There are many positions which carry with them great
responsibility, and correspondingly large wages. A girl's chance to
occupy some day such a position depends largely on herself. She should
try to understand as much as possible about the store and its methods and
rules, and she should make her work part of the successful work of the
establishment.

In a large store the younger girls are employed as messenger girls, parcel
girls, markers, or, after some time in a store, a younger girl may help in
the care of the stock. The payment received in these positions is small.
Indeed, the problem of the youngest girls in the store is not an easy one.
The girl herself should try to realize that this big store in which she is
employed must be to her what the high school or college is to other girls
who stayed at school when she went to work. Here, in the store, she should
continue her education, which is to take the practical form of a business
training.

Unfortunately, some of the girls thus employed are indifferent to their
work. These are the inattentive, listless girls who look about them idly,
instead of attending to the needs of possible customers, or who spend more
than half the time talking to their friends visiting the store or to their
fellow-workers. One large establishment reports that only one third of
their staff become skilled in salesmanship. Another famous firm of
employers says that twenty-five per cent. of their girls do