LONDON GIRL’S SECRET

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 206, 3 September 1935, Page 2

LONDON GIRL’S SECRET

| HOW TO RETIRE AT 29 NO NIGHTS OUT HOW SHE DID IT LONDON, Aug. 10. Aliss Phoebe Liuway, at 29, is finished with wurk. She is about to retire from her post as buyer in a lead ing London store. IShc has not inherited a fortune—she has made one. It is an astonishing story of success through application and <lcicrmination. Phoebe Liuway was born au'i brought up in the East End of London. Bhe left school at 14. She took a bus into the West End the day she Jett school and t und work with an advertising firm. “But,” she said this week, “1 cuuld not see any future fur me in this, so at the end of a week I called on the manager of a West End store and asked for work.” She refused to leave until she had been interviewed. She s;it for hours. At last the manager saw her. “He was astonished at my pertinacity,” she said. “But suddenly he laughed and offered mu a job at a few shilling.-, a week. I took it. It was here 1 began to learn what and what not to wear. After a year or two J went to bhc manager of another big store md tajked myself into a post at a good figure. In another ye-ar I was doing (he buying tor one fashion depa rtmont. ’ ’ Pioniotion after promotion followed, with a rise in salary each time. Aliss Liuway was sent to America to scan h for ideas. She came home with plenty and was soon supervisjjig all the fashion buying of a whole floor in the Invested Iler Savings. “I saved every penny I earned/' she said. “ Sometimes, following v < pert advice, 1 invested inv money. ‘Quick buying, quick selling, and bank tihe profits,’ was my motto. Now J need never work again—and believe me, I’m not going t>>. I’m going to play on till thu playgrounds of Europe, like (he customers I havd attended Io for .15 years. ’’ Miss Linway has something to sav to girls who want to make a sm . e-> in the dep.i 11 men ( store \\<>rid. “ I’alk to your customers and u>k for thruideas,’’ she >ays. “Frequently the customer can put up an idea that no oho insid? the store lias ever thought 01. Set your mit.d on a certain .sum of inonrx and determine to- save i;. i you want to retire before thirty, don t expect to do -o unless you have saved between £lB,Out) and £20,000. Lose do opportunity of making your personality heard and felt. The modest violet is usualy forgotten when the big jobs are handed out.” For ten years Alisa Linway neve l spent a penny on the theatre, cinemas or restaurant meals. She went home every night and studied sidelines to her job. “Now I’ve done what I sot out. to do,’’ slip sigh happily. “The rest of my life is going to be one long