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Show EARLY CLOSING OF OEPARTMEHT STORES Salt Laker Gives Her Reasons for Urging Early Closing on Saturday Evenings. TCdltor Tribune In view of the agitation agita-tion being made for early .closing of the stores, Saturday evenings,, as Is done on other days of tho week, permit me to suggest that In Chicago it hi Impossible to purchase a penny's worth of goods on Saturday evening after 5:30 o'clock. The saleswomen aro frco from their duties at tho same hour :i3 office help and ordinary day. laborers on Saturday evening. And It Is In Chicago that tho department store-has store-has reached Its highest development, where tho volume of business transacted In these commercial Institutions Is tho greatest of any Hly on earth. And In no city on earth will olio see more perfect organization, a higher grade of saleswomen, sales-women, or get more satisfactory service. Evidently thwe great essentials aro not affected adversely hy the custom of early closing on Saturday evenings. Saturday is usually iho hardest day in the week for salespeople in the niores; then to add to this three oxlra. hours of labor Is absolutely unfair and unjust. It Is surprising that humane men and women wom-en will sanction, let alone encourago, nuch a custom in commercial life, by making purchases after the hour when tired, haggard hag-gard saleswomen should bo having their dinners In leisure, or making preparations prepara-tions for a pleasant and contented Sun day. The remedy lies with Women who patronize pat-ronize the department stores. Lei them do their shopping at such hours as to made it unproJllublo for merchants to keep thHr stores open aflnr 0 o'clock n Saturday. I. for one, stand ready lo do everything In my power to abolish this unjust and Injurious treatment of saleswomen. sales-women. .1 UNIUS. Salt Lake 'ity. .Inn. In, 1010. |