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Show L & CHRISTMAS CLERKS I I $.. By KIN HUBBARD 1 i ' . - n i l. .. '.tV u !-" Sale Man- Xm "There' Too Many Hauohty Prlncessea an' Serioua.Faeed Grouches Be- I hind th Counter These Days Qlrl Who Expect t Marty an' Younfl i Men Who Hope t' Drop In 1' Somethln' Dettcr. As a Reftlt, It's Get. I tin' t' Be an Ordeal Instead of a Pleasure t' Shop." I NOW thnt th' Chrlstmus shnppln' senson litis begun In earnest th' most attractive hollihiy ills-piny ills-piny n lotull inerchiint kin ninkc Is 11 full Hue of attentive, pleas-ant pleas-ant faced clerks. In these dajs o' tlRht money, hlnh prices nn' shqrp competition It Is up to' th' merchant t' see t' It that his clerics show th' prospective customer over' courtesy nn' attention If he expects t' Kit an' hold his pntroniiRe.' Tlier'H too ninny haughty haugh-ty princesses nn' serious fneed grouches behind th' counter these dajs cleiks who consider their Johs as beln' only tempor.irj Rlrls who expect t' marry nn' nuiiK men who liopa t' drop In t' somethln' better. As n result re-sult It's Kcttlu' t' be nn mdenl In-fcteiul In-fcteiul of a plensuro t' shop. A clerk who feel nbovo his position wilt not warm up at th' sock counter, nn' th' powdered doll who Is cnuntln' th'dns till June Is rarely Interested In her customers. A feller feels like he vvuz buttln' In when he approaches u counter. coun-ter. Sometimes he ha? t' Interrupt n conversation like this: "Honestly, kid, lie's orily twenty-ono nn' towers 'way nbove me," or "l'ou vviilt on that olo hen, Maine, she makes mo sick." Lots o folks don't like t' ro In a store for fear they'll disturb th' clerks, or buy somethln' they don't want Jest t' keep from jiettln' the'r 111 will. It takes nn Iron constitution t' withstand th' vvlth-crln' vvlth-crln' look n clerk Rives jou when ou say, "I believe I will look around n Uttlo more nn' see If I can't find somc-thln' somc-thln' Unit suits me better." How often wu stutter an' pull ourselves t'scther an' say, "Jest lay It nsldo till I come In ucln." We wlhh t' buy but we're ljln' t' git nvvay from n stupid I mi' Indlffrr'eut clerk. If titer's nnjthliiK I worse than it lay preoccupied cleik I It's tirfiesli persistent clerk who knows I jour ants bettiy than voursi'lf th' I posltfvV, over7ealous clerk who de- I strojs whntever Inclination t' buy vyo I may have had when he started t' wait I on us. I People nro nil alike. when It comes I t pivln' out money, 'lhey like t' feel I that ther pntiouiiRO Is nppreclated an' I that some effort has been nmdu t' ' I please them. Pool people, who mako(j up th' Rient nnny o' cash customers an' without whose trade It would be I Impossible t' conduct nny kind o' busl- I ncss, are especially responsive t' kind- 'I ness an' consideration when they dolo I out ther scanty cnrnln's, and thej'io I entitled t' nil th' smiles an' ncconimn- I datlons that are so cheerfully extend- I ed t' th' Impatient an' crltlcnl customer I who happens t' have a cluugo nc- J count. , I We don't mean by nil o' this thnt n clerk should push nn' fall nil over us I that be or she thould show us what ! they wear an' ask nftcr th' children I nn' iell its how swell we look In nny- I thing an' do ever-thlng but Rive us n I little kiss when. VS tu' soinctliln'. I All that nny one kin reasonably nsk I of n clerk Is that they lmvo somu I knowledge o' ther business an' n will- J ln'ness t' w nit on us, Interspersed w Ith I n dash o' Rood nnturc an' politeness. Outside of u few public senrlco monopolies mo-nopolies nn' th' pustolilce th' dny o' th' cold blooded business transaction Is passed. T'day th' smllln' bird Rita tli worm. . IGOTirlgh tL Adam,s Nonspnccr Scrvic.) |
