SOCIETY GIRL’S AMBITION

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 27 January 1933, Page 8

SOCIETY GIRL’S AMBITION

“THE TOP OF THE TREE.” POST IN LONDON SHOP. 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 saici to a “Sunday Chronicle” reporter lately, “are 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 1 am doing it in the only kind of work that me. “I love this job, and I mean to stick to it, and wliat’s more, I mean to get to the very top of the tree in the store business. I don’t know what the biggest post a woman can hold in a large store—but some day I’m going to * U jt was .suggested that the 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 ot fun,” she said. “Sometimes 1 am quite sorry when the day is over. And alt my friends come in to see me and buy perfume and powder from me. Here is one now.” “Darling!” Miss Stourton said to a pretty "blonde woman. “1 mean to< say— Madam! Can I get you anything? We have a. very nice new choice in lipsticks—winch colour do von prefer, madam? Are you really on to India so soon, darling? We shall miss you. . . thank you, madam. “Yes, I will have it sent at once. Anything else 1 can show you ? Goodbye. darling—have a glorious time er, l" mean, good morning, madam, and thank you.” r The girl turned to her caller. Unit was Mrs. Cecil Pirn. She is going to India be the guest of the Maharajah of Rajpipla, and is stocking up m perfumes and lipsticks.”