Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-13
County cmters.
ELECTRIC GIRLS.
An Invention Of Surprising Beauty and
Utility.

New 4Ork IlmeS:-Ihe Introduction
OF Illuminated ballet girls has greatly
added to the attractions of the spectac-
ular stage. Girls with electric lights
on their foreheads, and batteries con-
cealed in the recesses of their clothing
first made their appearance a year ago,
but as yet the use of illuminated girls
has net spread beyondthe stage. There
is, however, agreat future awaiting the
grand idea of incandescent girls, and
there is reason to believe that in a very
short time private houses will belight-
ed by girls instead Of stationary lights.
The formation of the Electric Girl
Lighting company is an event second
in Importance only to the invention of
electric lights. This company proposes
to supply girls Of fifty candle power,
each in quantities to suit householders.
The girls are to be fed and clothed by
the company, and the customers will,
Of course, be permitted to select at the
company's warehouse whatever style of
girl may please their fancy.
A very beautiful design for a front
hall girl is now IN exhibition at the
company's office, No. 400 Gold street.
Thepresent system oflighting the front
hall of a dwelling house has the disad-
vantage that the light-whether it be a
gas light or an electric light-must be
kept burning all the evening 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 a beautiful girl OF fifty or
a hundred candle power, who will be on
duty from dusk till midnlght-or as
much later as may be desired. 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 a gas light. If, how
ever, any householder should desire to
keep the electric girl. constantly burn
ing and to employ another servant to
answer the bell, there can be no. doubt
that the electric girl, posing in a pict-
uresque 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 electric girls on the contrary, are
movable. One girl can be madet give
as much light as a large sized drawing
room chandelier, and she can bemoved
from n 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 designed and chastely exc
cuted electric girl and a massive chan.
delier that constantly threatens to fall
On somebody's head; and every house,
holder of aesthetic 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 M
room to anotherin a dark house. In
stead Of having to carry a candle in his
hand and incur the risk of dropping it
or 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 blythe flicker of his gas
light, or his inability to move the cleo
trio light frcm one part of his desk to
another, can,be made perfectly happy
by an electric girl with aground glass
shade, who will take any position that
the student maydesire in ordert to throw
light on his book Or paper. No one
who becomes accustomed to such q girl
will think Of returning to the old fash
toned methods Of lighting.
The new company propose to furnish
the new light at a little less than the
charge made by the Edison and Brush
companies, and promise that in q short
time their light will be decidedly cheap
er than gas. Their plant already com
prises 2,5CO girls, and both electric boys
and footmen 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 arc
completed.
It's reported that petroleum has been
discovered about forty miles northwest
of Bismarck.