Show 1 f STUDENT CLERKING IT IN SUMMER The first and hardest part of store work for a student is to rCt the position As a rule summer is a rather slack season for merchants and they are not likely to need extra help long especially if it is inexperienced However I happened to ap-j- u the right merchant one June at the time when trade was ueginning to increase before the Fourth of July and secured a job at sixty dollars per month h pi-oac- j not physically arduous A man or boy accustomed to walking and in ordinary health can eas- take all the physical punish- ment The mental part of the work is not so easy Early in the morning it requires slight effort to meet a customer with snnle and give a polite answer to his or her disparagement of the goods or to a queralous anger as to prices Rut ten hours of forced smiles and po- liteness will put an edge on any one’s nerves A clerk must be good humored polite diplomatic ul and fairly good in mental A witty person is arithmetic sometimes good as a clerk but too frequently he turns his wit upon the customers Good humor and diplomacy are the potions with which the clerk must sweeten the spleen of a customer Coolness and sureness in computation are factors that cannot be omitted The customer is often too ready to take advantage of a mistake in a sales-sli- p or in change for one to take chances To any one possessing these qualities there must be added either experience or education on the line he intends to sell A good salesman cannot make sales unless he is acquainted with the goods He must tell the truth and say neither too much nor too little Good salesmen are rare and are paid accordingly I however of previous experience The store was the largest d grocery store in a received city and therefore many of its orders by telephone Since it requires more skill to be a salesman than a wrapping clerk I was set to work putting In up these telephone orders I with familiar this way became customers’ names and locations of articles After a day or two as order clerk the heavy business prior to the Fourth gave me an opThe portunity as salesman Fourth happened to come on Saturday and Friday was a very busy day Ranchers came to town and tied their buggies and wagons as thick as the horses would stand from one end of the street to the other A rancher in a store is a hard lie al- person to take care of ways wants a week’s supply of “grub” for a big family and he wants it right away Then the groceries must be packed in boxes so as not to rattle too h (0 no belong to the good and carried out to the men class I have had consider-wago- n Then on a holiday hkeiape experience and I have the this he brings the whole family necessary deftness in wrapping and as a rule there has to be a an(j technical knowledge but note from every member on ev-- : 10t the temperament for a I ery package The clerks rushed fales-gettConsequently m to iave had no great advancement around from eight a eight at night on Friday with- - in waj?es or position Anyone out even time to go to dinner who lias the qualities of a saleswe merely went one at a time man combined with neatness into the storeroom and bad a and magnetism of person can little lunch taken from the do better as a travelling agent stock and hurried back to work for books clothing etc than in When we at last locked the a store Wages are much better doors and slipped off our aprons rntl on the road there is more the store looked like a cyclone variety and less work than at a had struck it of Moreover Fragments permanent stand packages orange wrappers let- there is a scarcity of employtuce leaves and dust covered ment in stores especially in the floor The shelves were summer but summer is the hare in spots or packages were busy season of the roadmen disarranged or hastily thrown Ordinarily a merchant prefers into place moreover we clerks to who is someone enploy felt as the shelves looked known to him rather than a Except on a few very busy stranger even though ho give days a salesman’s duties are good references This narrows the field for work to one’s own town unless lie is possessed of QUALITY previous experience AND All in all clerking is desirable employment for a student ex-in summer Tlip work is not ION hausting The pay is as good as in most other jobs considering ('(unbilled makes dear the reason the requirements It furnishes May SPALDING S are outfitters to (naiupioiis a chance to observe humanity whose implements must be invariably and to get experience that is of- right Write for a Free Illustrated tin helpful And it permits Catalogue much better associations than n SPALDING & llROS kinds of employment 7 L 2nd S St Salt LaVa Utah do many G E C ErAniKo fair-size- cool-hea- j WHJi LECTURE OX ESPERANTO Listen Students Klassy Kollege Klothes President Widtsoe is in °f a letter from Mrs Jennie A Froiseth a prominent member of the Esperanto club of Salt Lake In response to his invitation she will be here and lecture in chapel on March Dili on the subject of “Esperanto” Many of our students are among those interested in a universal language and those who are not may become so if they understand 'what it is At any rate the Iteture will be very instructive d- Chapel are making our way by selling TAILOR-MADhost you the CLOTHES at ready-mad- e prices Have some individuality about Give you and look like a man us a chance Wo E STIEFEL HARRISON St FRATERNITY 11:50 classes will be held at 11:00 o’clock Chapel will be at 11:50 The time is to be taken up by the finals for the patriotic ori-toric- PRINTING al ALWAYS IX THE HIGHEST STYLE OF THE ART direc- tion of the Sons of the American Revolution J lb Benson — I would Jibe to now something about the origin of sulphur Prof Peterson — I suppose you will lave to wait until you get to the infernal regions J month P Smidi & Son Promptness Our Hobby 1 He — In what Logan CLUR the contest under the John’s Club SOCIETY Euler Tuesday Tuesday were you born? She — Oh you needn’t be afraid The diamond is appro- priate — Ex Smith — Why don’t you stop drinking whisky? Fletcher — I have a cast iron constitution and if I drink wa- ter it will rust sales-muc- j PAGE THREE j j Sold by good druggists everywhere j A Present That Will Please-- — Your Portrait We have the Style and Mountings you Want at the Prices you Want to Pay Our Stock is the Last Word in the Latest Let Es Show You er ( J THE LOVELAND STUDIO OPPOSITE THE POSTOFFICE Everything a Drug Store Should Have RUDOLPH DRUG CO 123 North Main r j ---- Logan --- 9RATH SHINE THE MODERN BARBER SHOP We Shall Appreciate Your Trade lit WEST CENTER CARLISLE At CUDMUNDSON |