FEMALE CLERKS.
A discussion was recently being carried on in Ilia Home papers on tho subject ot female clerks, and reference was made to the incivility shown by those employed in the Post office as contrasted with the manners of lady assistants in other callings. A correspondent in tho 'Pall Mall Budget' gives his experience in the following words:—" Going into an olfice in Fleet-street, I asked for a foreign stamp, Two young ladies behind the counter were conversing, and though they saw and heard me, they continued their talk unmoved, ' And did he kiss you, dear? said one to tho other with as little concern for mo as if I liatl beeii n parcel. ■ It was not till she had got from liev Mend a reassuring answer that ono of them at length handed mo a Queen's head. I am a quiet man, on the wrong side of middle life, with a family at homo; and I admit that I walked down Fleet-street a sadder if not a wiser man."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1576, 7 January 1884, Page 3
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171FEMALE CLERKS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1576, 7 January 1884, Page 3
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