UNTIDY OFFICES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 141, 10 March 1920, Page 4

UNTIDY OFFICES

WHERE THE WOMEN. CAIIE IN. , I wonder whether you've noticed in city offices mid banks that the witlidrrtwnl of so many women clerks from them 'has resulted in an increase of dust and -untidiness (states a writer in the "Daily News"). The average office caretaker or charwoman does the rough cleaning and nf ranging.- But there was plenty of scope for improvement,/ and the. 'coming -of the'. girls' into the city made for taste and neatness in offices during the war. It'would probably pay most large offices to 'have permanent women helpers on their stalls to tidy up -and give advice as to decoration: American business men tell me thnt 'our commercial offices.are a back number as, far as neatness and decoration go. Our banks, specially, are instanced a? great offenders, with crude, inartistic ideas of what constitutes an effective colour '.scheme in their interiors, and very unoriginal in their great central offices. Why. for instance, should they intern themselves in heavy stone 1 buildings with sham pillars and high plate-glass win-, dows? They have crowded out of the city all the ground-floor iolly little chophouses,' second-hand bookshops, and the. like, and so rnbbpd their clerks of,much interest in the lunch-hour interval. I suppose we must credit them with only lack of imagination. Perhaps, when Hie next biff building goes up in the city, there will be provision on the ground floor made for .these little shops. We don't want'the city to emulate Whitehall. ' We want it various.and'full of. surprises.