Omaha daily bee., 1882-12-02
ESCORTS TO HIRE.
How Lonesome Women Can Get Pro-
lection for q Few Dollars q Day.

How Lonesome Women Can Get PRO.
lection for q Few Dollars a Day.
Philadelphia Times.
Lonesome Philadelphia women-if
they are fortunate enough to possess
money-need no longer remain with
out protectors, a scheme having been
set on foot by an enterprising person
to establish in this city a Profession
al Escort Bureau" The design OF
the bureau will be to furnish uupro.
tected women with escorts TO balls,
parties, musicsles and all places of
~smusements, at prices ranging from SO
to So a day. The gentlemen who will
be attached to the bureau will be so.
lected with great care. They will be
required to give u~nexceptional refer.
ences; they must be sober, good
looking, vel. educated, and of
captivating address. They will,
Of course, know how to
sing, play and r%ecite, so as to be en-
tertaining as wellRs good hammered.
All languages viii flow easily from
their glib tongues, while in the mat
ter of dress they will follow the latest
Partisan styles and no doubt set the
fashions in the city. No badge nor
observations" will expose to the cruel
world their true position--none will
know this but their employers.
The advantages that this new depar.
ture will offer are many. Elderly
maiden ladies whose gentleman friend
ceased calling on them a decade ago,
but who still feel q y~earping for the
giddy designations of the world of 80.
ciety, can secure the devoted atten-
lions of q handsome and gallanty Dung
man for the sum of five dollars a day.
The reason why this class will have to
pay the highest price is obvious.
A oHANCE roR NEGLECTED WIVES.
The young wife, who is constantly
deserted by shat brute of a hus.
band" who dimes at the club and re-
mains in the night air 30 late that his
head is affected and he comes home
dizzy, can dispel the ennui to which
she has so long been accustomed by
hiring an escort and "taking in" the
minstrels or the drama occasionally.
If she is good looking the price will
be three dollars, but if abe is ugly it
will be four. This sum is for the SER
wees of the escort in addition to what
she will have to pay for the theater
tickets, carriage and the usual 'little
supper after the play. .
This advertisement appeared in
one of the morning papers the other
day:
G0n.t-wANrED, PARTNER, lady or gent,
establishing a Professional Escort and Amuse.
ment Bureau.
A reporter answered the card, and
Benjamin LaBree, who had inserted
it in the paper, appointed a meeting at
which he detailed the scheme and the
profits that are sure to accrue from the
business.
PAINTING A SPECULATIVE PICTURE.
"We shall first hire a nice, cosy
office on Chestnut street," said he,
"where We csn receive applicants.
Then by judicious advertising we can
secure all the escorts we need. OF
course we should investigate the char
acter of each applicant and take none
but the best. There are a good many
young men of the best families who
would be only too gladtto act as escorts
when they had all their expenses paid
and we're sure the world would be none
the wiser for it. There is an escort
bureau doing a fourishing bust
ness in Washington, and there is one
on Fourteenth street in New York
city, while in Paris, where the idea
originated, there are scores of them
doing pr%osperously. All are eminent
ly respectable and have only the best
classes for patrons"
"Do you think Philadelphians are
too conservative for such a venture to
be a success herel"
"By no means. The first circle here
would patronize the bureau from the
start If they knew the French and
English aristocracy did SO. This ap-
parent conservatism is only a thin
crust of ice to Philadelphia society,
but underneath the thin crust the
current of novelty uns as strongly as
In any other city. l am convinced ii
would pay, and as soon as I get an
energetic partner I shall start in"
The reporter concluded that he
would not invest the necessary $500.