Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-06-14
ElEcrR.c GIRLS.
Tho Possibilities Opened Up by tho
Electric Girl Lighting Company


The introduction Of illuminated ballet
girls has greatly added TO the attractions
of the Spectacular stage. Girls with
electric lights ON their forebeads and
batteries concealed in the r.cesscs Of
their clothing made their appearance a
year ago, but as yet the use of illumi-
mated 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 instead of by station.
ary electric lights.
The formation of the Electric Girl
Lighting company is an event second in
importance only to the invention OF
electric lights. This comp my proposes
to supply girls of fifteen candle power
each, in quantities to suit house eholiers.
The girls are to be fed and clothed by the
company, and customers will, OF course,
he permitted to select at the com
pany's warehouse whatever style of girl
may please their fancy.
The present system of lighting the
front hall of a dwelling house has the
disadvantage that the light--whether it
he a gas light or an electric light must
be kept burning all the evening, and
that servant must be employed TO an
swor 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 beauti.
iui girl of fifty or a hundred candle
power, who will be on duty from dusk
TILL midnight -or as much later os 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 lgh', oren the door, admit the
visitor ana light him into the reception
room. One girl thus performs the duty |
of lighting the font hail and answering |
the bell, and her annual cost is much |
less than that of a servant and gas |
light. If. however. any hoikeholder
shDuld desirn to keep the electric girl
constantly burning and to employ an
other servant to answer the bell, there |
can be no doubt that the electric girl,
posing in picturesque attitude, W II add |
mneh to the decoration OF the house
Under the present system electric |
lamps or gas burners are fixtures and |
cannot be moved from pace to place. |
The electric girls, on the contrary, are
movable. One girl can be made to give |
rs much light as large.sized dining
room chandelier, and she can be moved
from one room to another, lea1ing the
way to supper, for example, and placed
wherever she can do the most good.
The G can he NJ comparison between a
designed and chastely exc
cuted electric girl and a massive chm.
delier that constantly threatens to fall
on somebody's head; and every house.
holder of aesthetic instinct 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 person desires to go from one
room to another in dark house. In
stead of having to carry candle In MS
hand and incur the risk of dropping it
or of having it blown out by draught OF
air, the happy possessor OF an electric
rirl can turn her on and send her before
him to light the way. The student who
IS now oubled by the flicker of his gas
light, or his inability to move the elec-
sric light from one part of his desk to
mother, can be made perfectly happy
by nm electric girl with gronnd-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 a girl will
think of returning to old fashioned
methods of lighting. g.-Ne,c York Times.