Sales-lady

“I am the sales-lady who served you, madam,” responded the reduced empress in banged hair, long watch-chain and ringed fingers, who presided at the counter.

It describes the largest combination dry-goods store and bazaar in Paris, and shows the life of the sales-ladies and salesmen employed behind its counters, with their flirtations, trials, troubles and temptations.

Lillian Stubbs, sales-lady, as she called herself, stood irresolute, for a moment, behind the storm-doors of that fashionable emporium known as Dunn, Dusenberry & Co.