GALLANT GLASGOW.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 51, 23 November 1907, Page 11

GALLANT GLASGOW.

- It is- said- that. Glasgow, is .the paradise of women .wage-earners,, for there feminine.labour 'has. obtained, in- many, branches <of work a .footing ~that, is' unknown in other cities. Glasgow./is, as,ris well.known, a city of'trcmendous.industrial pressure, and its manufactures range-, from, ship-building to sweet-making.-.froin-wirerwcav-ing to. that of finest muslin;'arid, whatsoever'may be the branch of manufacture or business, there' will ho found/a large'.proportion of girl clerks in the offices. It is ase'rted' as a fact that an adi vertisemeiit:- hi, the- local 'papers for a,clerk or\:ofiicc-boy onlyi'produces at the most two or-three' masculine. applicants,' such distinct • preference boing'-.(jivcn by employers to girls. : In- the. shops •it is a trim.'young lady who fulfils tho r duties usually carried out by correct; frock-boated shop-walkers. ■'■' Errandgirls- have' quite superseded :boysj and are employed in that capacity by the'smaller class "of shops. In the m'usoums and picture galleries young women aro engaged to sell; catalogues, dust tho cas&s, sweep, and so forth; and another large field open to women is at tho public libraries, of which there are so many in Glasgow. Quito young girls take the slip on which the namo of the book required is written, and elder ones aro at the \ desk. A peculiar'position is that of lady booking clerks •at the railway stations'.Shop assistants are required .to do a good : deaf more than to servo customers, for they dress-the windows and wash thcoutsido if necessary,- andiOven in the principal thorough-. fares':it causes'no -comment, when a young • woman is seen standing on high steps to wasjr the upper parts of tho outside windows.