Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-12-16 | Page 6 | Poor Punctuation Punctures Profits

POOR PUNCTUATION PUNCTURES PROFITS New The York The lifo of a salesgirl has man many trials as several tons tonn of ot stories on the tho subject attest Now the young women who are volunteerIng volunteer volunteer- Ing for work In tho Red Cross shop ehon at No Firth Fifth avenue are beginning to realize that there Is much truth In those stories Also Aho tile thor they have hAvO learned that the management of or a department store lore I IH iii not cas easy for Cor unfortunately all is not gold that thal LOid Besides cs there are aro boorish customers who do not nol realize that a a. Rod Hed Cross shop carrying on a ft Christmas sale Bale for tho tIme benefit of ot convalescing soldiers Is only a n sort of ot d department store and refuse to bo be deferential to the tho saleswomen omen It became yesterday that at the close of oC a trying da day the same beIng being be- be Ing ng Monday an ai Insignificant to the layman looking all vase the ito price tag tal apparently bore the tho Inscription tl loo 1200 00 I had been sold at that price when whon it It It was wag worth 1200 The Tho different b buto be bu- bu t o tween tho those 6 two tuo CI figures practically wiped out the profit for the he da day and some Bomo amateur Kal saleswoman IH Is feeling terribly blue about It It I