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 Trade is extremely dull in retail stores just after schools close in June, but it will pay you to make the rounds and meet the managers or superintendents of employees. These men have regular hours, which you will find posted over the employment-office door. Observe these hours. If the card states that women applicants are received between 8:30 and 11, and you happen to come in during the afternoon, when men applicants are received, go away and return the next morning.

Unless an unusual opening has occurred, this superintendent will tell you that he is hiring no one until the busy season opens, about three or four weeks before Easter; September 1st in the fall. Then ask him to take your name and address or give you an application blank. Tell him that in the meantime you hope to gain some experience in another and perhaps smaller store, but you want an opening with his firm when the busy season begins.

Fill out the application blank with infinite care. By your answers will he judge your accuracy, which is important in the saleswoman who must make out sales-slips. By its general appearance will he judge of your neatness. The average superintendent is on the watch for neat, business-like, intelligent-looking girls, and if you make a good impression on him and furnish satisfactory references, your name will not be