My Fifth Avenue establishment occupied four vast floors, the rent
being thirty-eight thousand dollars a year. The office floor, which
was elaborately furnished, had an immense waiting-room with
gold letters on doors of dull glass bearing the legends: "General
Offices," "Show-rooms," "Private Offices," "Salesmen. Please
show samples of merchandise between 9 and 12 A.M.," and
"Information." The "Private Office" door led to a secluded little
kingdom with the inscription "David Levinsky" on one of its
several doors, another door leading from my private office to the
showrooms
I employed a large staff of trained bookkeepers, stenographers,
clerks, and cloak models. These models were all American girls
of Anglo-Saxon origin, since a young woman of other stock is not
likely to be built on American lines--with the exception of
Scandinavian and Irish girls, who have the American figure. But
the figure alone was not enough, I thought. In selecting my
model-girls, I preferred a good-looking face and good manners,
and, if possible, good grammar.
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