The latter regulation would make the Saleswomen energetic in their labours.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
What astonishment would be depicted on the faces of the Saleswomen when they beheld her in her present cheap, shoddy clothes!
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
A lady once entering a crowded shop, where the women behind the counter were singularly inattentive and rude even for America, remarked to one young woman who was lounging on the counter, and who did not show any particular desire to serve her, "My dear, you make me a convert to the Saturday-afternoon early-closing rule, and to the plan for providing seats for Saleswomen, for I see that fatigue has impaired your usefulness to your employer."
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood