BUSINESS LIFE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15047, 17 July 1912, Page 11

BUSINESS LIFE.

TEADES FOR WOMEN IN GLASGOW. These are over three hundred trades in Glasgow for womeu and girls alone. London itself has not such a great number of trades for its women. Not the least interesting among the Glasgow trades is the tobacco and cigarette work. . The first thing which impresses the visi* tor to Glasgow is the number of small girls who are employed to take messages and carry parcels. They do so, too, quite late at night as well as in the daytime. Also, they clean shop-fronts and windows. This state of affairs is deplored by many people in the city. They find fault with the system for many reasons. B'or one, because the mere taking of messagea, and nothing more, unsettles the girl; another, because the carrying of heavy parcels is bad for her physically, the late hours and the general "roughing it" are bad for her morally. They lead her to form acquaintances which she would be better without. Moreover, all this desultory work is such as to unfit her for any steady application to any one particular kind of work. She cannot or will not settle down to the drudgery of learning a trade. THE WORKING MAN AND THE PARSON. There is not the slightest doubt, says a clergyman in the Westminster Review, that the man who is* trained to be useful to his people is sure to make headway amortgst them. The measure of his influ-' eiice will be that of hia self-respect, and i his personality will be the hall-mark of | his service. There must be no wooden in. terpretation of his office. Let him not play with socialism, or he will burn his finger-tips. , The working man knows perfectly well that there is a difference between the parson and himself, and it is a permanent one, because- it is the outcome of birth, education, and position., "Let the passon keep his place, and we'll keep our'n," was a lesson that I soon learnt, and I have acted on it ever since. Any slapping on the back is a mistake. This ia the ago of ecclesiastical statistics, but acts of kindly help are never tabulated. What will be valued will be ready aid in tjgns of trouble, and the word of genuine sympathy in the hour of adversity, but it must come from.a man who is respected, and who has stamped the seal of his : character on his - , '■,). " ■: ;; .'-