The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-05-21
ELECTRIC GIRLS.



10 Become Popular.
IN. Y. Times.l
The introduction Of illuminated ballet
girls has greatly added to the attractions
Of the spectacular stage. Girls with cleo.
trio lights on their foreheads, and batteries
concealed in the recesses OF their clothing
first made their appearance year ago,
but as yet the use of illuminated girls has
not spread beyond the stage. There is,
however, great future awaiting the grand
idea OF incandescent girls, and there is
reason TO believe that in very short time
private houses will be lighted by girls in
stead OF stationary electric lights.
The formation of the Electric Girl Light
ing Company Is an event second in import
.ance only to the invention of electric
lights. This company proposes to supply
girls of fifty candle power each in quanti-
ties to suit householders The girls are to
be fed and clothed by the company, and
customers will, of course, bo permitted to
select at the company's warehouse what
ever style of girl may please their fancy.
A very beautiful design for a front-hall
office, No. 4c0 Gold street. The present
system of lighting front hall Of dwell
ing-house has the disadvantage that the
light--whsther it be gas light or an elec-
tric light-musb be kept burning all the
evening. and that servant must be em-
ployed to answer the bell. Thus thore is
double expense--she cost Of the Night and
it. Of IL lao ak-fN
Girl Lighting Company will iur-
nish a beautiful girl Of fifty or q
hundred candle-power, who VIII be on duty
from dus; till midnight--or as much later
as may be desired This girlwill remain
seated In tho hall until some one rings tho
front.door bell. She will then turn on her
electric light, open tie door, admit the
visitor and light him into the reception
room. One girl thus performs tho duties
Of lighting the front hall and answering
The bell, and her annual cost is much less
than that OF a servant and sas-lght. II,
however, any householder should desire TO
keep the electric girl constantly burning
and to employ another servant to answer
the bell, there can be no doubt that the
electric girl, posing in picturesque atti-
tude, will add much TO the decoration of
The house.
Under the present system electric lamps
or gas-burners are fixtures and can not DO
moved from place to place. The electric
girls, ON the'contrary, are movable. One
girl can be made TO give as muct light as
large.sized drawing.room chandelier, and
f.e 10,
olher, leading the way to supper, for ex.
ample, and placed wherever she can do the
most good. There can DO no comparison
between beautifully designed and chaste-
y executed electric girl and a massive
chandelier that constantly threatens to fall
)n somebody's head; and every. house
holder OF aesthetic instincts will 10 glad to
exchange his chandeliers for girls.
An inexpensive electric girl OF one or
Two candle power will be Of greatuse when
person desires 20 go from one room TO
another In dark house. Instead Of hav-
ing 10 carry candle in his hand and incur
.he risk Of dropping II or having It blown
out by draught OF air, the happy posses.
sor Of an electric girl can turn her on and
send her before him to light the way. The
student who Is now troubled by the flicker
of his gas light or his inability 10 move the
electric light from ono part Of his desk TO
mother, can be made perfectly happy by
an electric girl with ground glass shade,
who will take any position that the student
may desire In order TO throw light on his
cook or paper. No one who becomes ac-
,ustomed to such girl will think Of re-
turning to the old.fashioned methods Of
lighting
The new company propose to furnish tho
new light at little less than the charge
made by the Edison and Brush companies,
aud promise shat in short time their light
will bo decidedly cheaper than gas. Their
olant already comprises $50 girls, and
Doth electric boys and footmen will be at
;he command OF the public as soon as GER.
ain experiments as to the possibility Of
enabling electric boys to give a steady light
arc completed.