IN A LONDON SHOP

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 13, 17 January 1933, Page 11

IN A LONDON SHOP

SOCIETY GIRL'S AIM

A society girl has joined the staff of a large London shop with the ambition of rising to the highest post her career can afford. She is Miss Jeanne Stourton. "Some people," Miss Stourton said to a "Sunday Chronicle" reporter, "arc criticising me, and saying that I am taking a job that should 'go to a girl who really needs it. But I need the job; it is necessary, for me to make money, and I am doing it in the only kind of work that interests me. "Is love this job, and I mean to stick to it, and, what's more, I mean to get to the very top of the tree in tho store business. I don't know what is the biggest post a woman can hold in a large store —but some day I'm going to hold it." ■ ; It was suggested that tho long hours and- hard work might prove irksome after the sort of life enjoyed by a society girl. But Miss Stourton would not agree. "Why, I have lots of fun," she said. "Sometimes lam quite sorry when the, day is over. And all my friends come in to see me and buy perfume and powder from me. Here is one now." l "Darling!" Miss Stourton said to a pretty blonde v woman. "I mean to say —Madam! Can I get you anything? We have a very nice new choice in lipsticks—which colour do you prefer, madam? Aro you really off to India so soon, darling We shall miss you . . . thank you, madam. Yes, I will have it sent at once. Anything else I can show you? Good-bye, darling—have a glorious time—or, I mean good morning, madam, and thank you." Tho girl turned to her caller. "That was Mrs. Cecil Pirn. Sho is going to India to be the guest of the Maharajah of Eajpipla, and is stocking up in perfumes and lipsticks." Economic depression has caused a slump in the cash value of wives in Yugoslavia, states an exchange. It is still the custom there among the Mohammedan population for the man to have to pay his fathor-in-laW for his bride. The rate hitherto ruling has averaged £33 10s. The efforts to raise such, a sum in these times have of late led to several crimes, so it has been decided to reduce cash value to a mere £B'7s. '