Florent stumbled against a thousand obstacles--against porters taking up their burdens, and saleswomen disputing in rough tones.
The markets were quite delighted; and the saleswomen returned to their stalls, declaring that everything had passed off extremely well.
The hawkers on the foot-pavement of the covered way did the regular saleswomen a great deal of injury, she said.
At four in the afternoon the whole of this nook of greenery was aglow with sunshine; and Claude wandered between the stalls, inspecting the bright-coloured heads of the saleswomen with keen artistic relish.
The leading stores, glad of an opportunity to raise the standard of their employees, grant the saleswomen a half day each week, without loss of pay, during which they take the salesmanship course.
Saleswomen and shop-girls have not the powerful wrists and muscular waists of accustomed washerwomen, and are in most instances no better fitted to perform laundry work than washerwomen would be to make sales and invoice stock.
Further, it may be believed that saleswomen will not forever acquiesce in pursuing their trade in utterly machinal activity, without any common expression of their common position.
Among these the narrative of the trade fortunes of some New York saleswomen is placed first.
One of the first saleswomen who told the League her experience in her work was Lucy Cleaver, a young American woman of twenty-five, who had entered one of the New York department stores at the age of twenty, at a salary of $4.
One frequently hears complaint of the inefficiency and inattention of New York saleswomen and their rudeness to plainly dressed customers.
Further, in one store the management especially advises the saleswomen to be seated at every moment when the presence of a customer does not require her to stand.
He was one of the supporters of Galt House, into which some of his own young saleswomen had occasionally strayed; and none, save Mr. Parr alone, had been so liberal in his gifts.
To take the case of the saleswomen for illustration: The investigation of the Working Women's Society disclosed the fact that wages averaging from $2 to $4.
No other fault was found with the discharged saleswomenthan that they had been long enough in the employ of the firm to justly expect an increase of salary.
When the saleswomen and cash girls saw them they almost stopped breathing, for the two men were the two senior members of the firm, who, for some reason or others, were going over the store together.
She also was to be one of the saleswomen at the stall chosen by the Baroness, who liked her for her very turbulence, the sudden gaiety which she generally brought with her.
In the morning a dozen saleswomenfrom a nearby department store, having purposely arrived too early, gathered around his kiosk to enjoy the dirty jokes and cheerful comments of Mr. Mechenmal.
Millionnaires do their courting in their own set, where saleswomen can't afford to be.
They are in the best position to know, and to know intimately, what the salesmen and saleswomen want and what they want to be and what they want to do or not do.
In many fashionable houses the saleswomenare not allowed to leave the counter between the hours of eleven A.
In one large house the average wages for saleswomen and cash-girls is two dollars and forty cents a week.
If mistakes are made, they are charged to the saleswomen and cash-girls.
Many girls are employed as saleswomen in smaller stores which need only a few employees.
The average earnings of saleswomen at times seem disappointingly small.
They also charged that the city ordinance providing seats for saleswomen was habitually violated, and that the girls were forced to stand from ten to fourteen hours a day.
When she saw herself in them she was silent, though the super-saleswomen exclaimed, and Mrs. Vandervelde smiled a gratified smile.
Nancy would have been tempted to marry Bluebeard himself for the sake of some of the "rich apparel" that obliging saleswomen were setting forth for her inspection.
In any given group of young and untrained girls drawn as in our schools from varying environment and heredity, the natural saleswomen will probably be in the minority.
Natural handworkers make poor saleswomen; natural traders or saleswomen are likely to be uninterested and ineffective handworkers.
She had made a little mistake in not having at once called one of the other saleswomen to witness the reality of the short measure, and even to have made a mistake was very bitter to her pride.
The saleswomen congratulated themselves, only Madame Mathurine walked away alone with an angry indignant heart.
Women clerical workers receive more than either saleswomen or industrial workers.
The number of saleswomen in a single store ranges from 12 to 70.
A painter told us that in working in the houses of ill-repute in the vicinity of Twenty-third Street, he was astonished at the number of women whom he recognized as saleswomen in different stores who frequented these houses.
We find that in many houses the saleswomen work under unwholesome conditions; these comprise bad ventilation, unsanitary toilet arrangements, and an indifference to considerations of decency.
In which the present law regarding the providing of seats for saleswomen is observed, and the use of seats permitted.
Saleswomen suffer also from season trade, as it necessitates reduction of force.
But we do not wish to insinuate, in stating these facts, that the majority of saleswomen resort to evil ways; on the contrary, they are the exception who do so.
The question of seats for saleswomen comes up periodically, has been at some points legislated upon, and is in most stores ignored or evaded.
But a large proportion of the saleswomen either pay board or help support a family; and how can this be done on $4.
Some are kind-hearted enough to be very willing that their saleswomen should sit down if their customers would tolerate the practice, and others are so humane that they grant the privilege without saying, By your leave, to their patrons.
It is a shameful fact that, in the face of a plain statute forbidding the barbarous regulation, saleswomen are still compelled to stand continuously in many of the stores.
She told the suave manager that she was waiting for friends, but this didn't deter him from employing a magnificent wave of the hand to summon one of the saleswomen and consigning Rose almost tenderly, to her care.
It is hardly necessary to comment on a wage to saleswomen varying from $2.
The average salary of one large shop for saleswomen and cash girls is $2.
Until sale time these counters were out of the congested region; and the six saleswomen were taking advantage of the lull before the storm to put finishing touches on the arrangement of the stock.
Win noticed that the saleswomen called each other by name, though officially they were numbers.
He did not know what to make of it, but it was so evidently a change for the better, and the time before the sale was so short, that he decided to sink conventions and let the saleswomen alone.
I have been told the openings for saleswomen are better farther East than in New York.
Broadway, and the other saleswomen got the same price.
In no season are saleswomenthrown out of employment.
Occasionally we hear such complaints as these: "Women who keep stores of their own ask higher for their goods than men, and saleswomen are less obliging than male clerks.
At a large store, where saleswomen were employed, I was told they find lady bookkeepers more accurate in their accounts, and not so likely to appropriate money that don't belong to them.
A manufacturer in Providence writes: "I employ women in making and trimming bonnets, making cloaks and mantillas, and as saleswomen in my store.
She says nearly all of her saleswomen have relations dependent on them for support, and if they are thrown out of employment for a week it is a serious matter.
They are fenced in, and separated from the saleswomen by a framework of glass.
Their best workers and saleswomen receive about $1 a day; some get a little more, and some rather less.
One discouraging feature in the history of saleswomen is, that their wages are not advanced like those of men.
At a store on Grand street, New York, where a number of saleswomen are employed, the owner told me he takes girls in the spring and fall.
The kind of ladies that saleswomen mostly see in first-class stores is calculated to improve and refine their manners, and give them a command of language.
Some leave the business for places as saleswomen in millinery establishments; but that is more uncertain, for it is more difficult to retain the same place long.
Saleswomen and bookkeepers there enjoy as a class a good reputation, but the same cannot be said of sempstresses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "saleswomen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
