The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-28
ELECTRIC GIRLS.
A New Device in Electric Lighting Bound
to Become Popular.
New York Times.

New York Times.
The introduction of illuminated ballet girls
has greatly added to the attractions of the spec
tacular stage. Girls with electric lights on their
foreheads and batteries concealed in the re
cesses Of their clothing first made their appear
ance a year ago, but as yet the use of illunin-
ated girls has not spread beyond the stage.
There is however a great future awaiting the
grand idea of incandescent girls, nd there is
reason to believe that in a very short time pri
vate houses will be lighted by girls instead Of
stationary electric light,
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 househ0lders. The
girls are to be fed and clothed by the company
and customers will, of course be permitted to
select at the companys warehouse what
ever style of girl may please their fancy.
very beautiful design for a front hall girl is
now on exhibition at the companys Office, No
400 Gold street. The present system of lighting
the front hall of a dwelling house has the dis
advantage that the light-whether it be a gas
light an electric light--must be kept burning
all the evening, and that servant must be EN-
ployed to answer the bell. Thus there is a dou-
bic expense-the cost of the light and the cost of
the servant. The Electric Girl Lighting Com
pany will furnish a beautiful girl of fifty q
hundred candle power, who will be on duty from
dusk till midnight-or as much later as may be
desired This girl will remain seated in the hall
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 dlI-
ties 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, 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 posingin picturesque att-
tude 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 made to
give as much light as Il large sized drawing
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 be-
tween a beautifully designed and chastely exc
euted electric girl and a massive chandelier that
constantly threatens to fall on somebody's head
and every householder of aesthetic instincts will
be glad to exchange mis- chandeliers for girls
An inexpensive electric girl of one or two can
die power will be of great use when a person
desires to go from one room to another in a dark
house. Instead of having to carry candle in
his hand and incur the risk of dropping it or
having it blown out by dranght 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 anoth
or, can be made perfectly happy by 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 accustomed to such girl will think of
returning to old-fashioned methods of lighting.
The new company propose to furnish the new
light at little less than the charge made by the
Edison and Brush companies and promise thatin
short time their light will be decidedly cheaper
than gas Their plant already comprises $500
girls and both electric bows and footmen will be
at the command of the public as soon as certain
experiments as to the possibility of enabling
electric boys to give steady light are completed