Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-10
Electric Girls.


The introduction of Illuminated ballet
girls has greatly added to the attractions
of the spectacular stage. Girls with
electric lights on their toreheads and bat
teries concealed in the recesses of their
clothing first made their appearance a
year ago, but as yet the use Ofilluminated
girls has not spread beyond the stage.
There is, however, a 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 instead of stationary electric
lights.
The formation of the Electric Girl Light
ing Company is an event second in i'm
pOrtance only to the invention of electric
lights. This company proposes to supply
girls OF hfty-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, be 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
girl is now on exhibition at the company's
office, No. 400 Gold street. The present
system of lighting the front ball of a
dwelling house has the disadvantage that
the light-Whether it be a gas light or an
electric light-must be kept burning all
the evening, and that a servant must be
employed to answer the bell. Thus there
is double eXpense-the cost of the light
and the cost of the servant. The Electric
Girl Lighting Company will furnish
beautiful girl of fifty or hundred candle
power, who will be on duty from dusk tills
midnight, or as much later as may be de-
sired. This girl will remain seated in the
hall until some one rings the front-doOr
bell. She will then turn on her electric
light, open the door, admit the visitor and
light him into the reception room. One girl
thus performs the duties of lighting the
front hall and answering the bell, and her
annual cost is much less than that of a
servant and gas light. If, 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 cleo
trio girl, posing in picturesque attitude,
will add much to the decoration of the
house.
Under the present system electric lamps
or gas burners are fixtures, and cannot
be moved from place to place. The cleo
trio girls, on the contrary, are movable.
One girl can be made to give as much
light as large-sized drawing room
chandelier, and she can be moved from
one room to another, leading the way to
supper, for example, and placed wherever
she can do the most good. There can be
no comparison between a beautifully de-
signed ana chaStely executed electric
girl and massive chandelier that con-
stantly threatens to fall on somebody's
head; and every householder of athletic
instincts will be glad to exchange his
chandeliers for girls.
An inexpensive electric girl of one or
two candle power will be Of great use
when a person desires to go from one
room to another IN dark house. Instead
of having to carry candle in his hand
and incur the risk of dropping it, or of
having it blown out by a draught of air,
the happy possessor 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 to move the electric light
from one part of his desk to another, 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 book
or paper. No one who becomes accus-
toned to such a girl will think of return
ing to Old-fashiOned methods Oflighting.
The new company proposes to furnish
the new light at a little less than the
charge made by the Edison and Brush
companies, and promises that IN a short
time its light win be decidedly cheaper
than gas. The company's plant already
comprises $500 girls, and both electric
boys and fOetmen will be at the command
of the public as soon as certain expert
ments as to the possibility of enabling
electric boys to give a steady light are
completed.