WOMEN WILL NOT LINE UP.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2478, 14 August 1903, Page 6

WOMEN WILL NOT LINE UP.

A floor-walker in one of the department stores says that the hardest thing there is is to persuade a woman to keep in line. He says that his trials are beyond endurance on a bargain day when something is advertised for sale at a remarkably low price for a few minutes only, and only one is sold to a customer, and the articles are sold by bnt one clerk. "The women have about as much notion of the correct way of getting in line as a flock of sheep," says the floor-walker, whose name is withheld for " obvious reasons." " They huddle. There is nothing systematic about their movements. If one woman takes her place intelligently in line, the new comer in petticoats invariably tries to push ahead. It is a Bcheme that never succeeds, for the other women insist upon their rights. Every woman knows this, but this does not prevent her from attempting it. " When women are lined up before a counter I spend my time cryiDg: ' Ladies, take your turn,' 'First come first served. ' Please fall in line,' and so on. But it never has any affect. There are always a half-a-dozen trying to get in front of the women at the head, and they always lose time, as the saleswoman pays no attention to them,