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Rales Governed Life of Store
Clerk 100 Years Ago
California settlers of the goldrush days were not all of the swashbuckling sort described in fiction. In a men’s-furnishings store established in San* Francisco in 1853 a prospective clerk was handed rules of the house before he could be trusted to do any selling over the counter:
Store must be kept open from 6 a.m. to 9 pm. the year around.
Store must be swept; counters, bases, shelves and showcases dusted. Lamps trimmed, filled, and chimneys cleaned; pens made; doors and windows opened; a pail of water, also a bucket of coal, brought in before breakfast.
Store must not be opened on the Sabbath unless necessary and then only a few minutes. The employee who is in the habit of being shaved at the barber, going to dances and other places of amusement, will give his employer reason to be suspicious of his integrity and honesty.
Each employee must not pay less than $5 per year to the church and must attend Sunday school regularly.
Men employees are given one evening a week for courting, two if they go to prayer meeting. After 14 hours of work in the store, the leisure time should be spent mostly in reading.
—Christian Science Monitor
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