d waitresses are employed in the store lunchroom or
restaurant. Trained nurses have positions in the store hospital and visit
employees in their homes. Machine and handworkers carry out special orders
in making curtains, cushions, lampshades, etc. A store school employs
teachers of salesmanship and store system.

Many girls are employed as saleswomen in smaller stores which need only a
few employees. The system of the great store is not so necessary in a small
establishment, yet the individual saleswoman in the small store holds a
responsible position. Sometimes a girl with business ability becomes in
time assistant manager, or even part owner, of such a store. Ideas and
initiative will tell wherever they are found, and the girl who is really
interested in salesmanship will succeed in a large store or in a small one.

The hours are fairly long, sometimes longer than the average in women's
occupations, but they are no longer than the hours required in many
professional and other employments in which women are engaged.

The well-advised saleswoman will have interests outside of her work. She
should study some interesting branch of knowledge and cultivate a hobby.
She will find both pleasure and benefit in belonging to a club or other
association. One of the most interesting developments in the large
business establishment where numbers of men and women are employed is
the organization for comradeship and improvement. Thrift is encouraged;
opportunities are provided for exercise; sometimes those on the staff of
such an establishment are offered housing of an attractive kind at
moderate prices. The girls of the establishment may be provided with a
club house.

Altogether, the character of this employment is complex and interesting.
It is an attractive occupation, in which the girl is brought into
relationship with people with whom she can help to develop a sociable,
co-operative life, tending to improve her own character and usefulness
and that of others.

CHAPTER IV

THE GIRL AT WORK IN AN OFFICE

The girl who hopes to succeed in office work should be able to spell
correctly and should have a good general English education. It is true that
some girls have taught themselves to spell correctly after they have
entered business offices; and ambitious, sensible girls, who find that
letters dictated to them contain words the meaning of which they do not
know, study until their vocabularies are greatly enlarged and