The customer, by declining to purchase after a certain hour, is able to release the weary saleswoman at six o'clock.

She is not able to release the equally weary girls who toil in the bookkeeping and auditing departments.
That, in these days of adding and tabulating machines, accounting in most stores is still done by cheap hand labor, is a statement which strains credulity.

Merely from the standpoint of business economy it seems absurd.

But it is a fact easily verified.
I tested it by obtaining employment in the auditing department of one of the largest and most respectable stores in New York.

In this store, and, according to the best authorities, in most other stores, the accounting force is made up of girls not long out of grammar school, ignorant and incapable--but cheap.