Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-19
Electric Girls.

EIScIflS GIFTS.
The introduction of illuminated ballet
girls has greatly added to the attractions OF
the spectacular 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 not
spread beyond the stage There is, how
ever, a great future awaiting the grand idea
OF incandescent girls, and there is reason
TO believe that IN a very short time houses
viii be lighted by girls instead Of station
ary 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
Gtty-candle power each in quantities to
suit householders. The girls are to be fed
and clothed by the company, and custom
ers 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 front-hall
girl is now on exhibition at the company s
office, No. 400 Gold street. The present
system Of lighting the front hall Of a
dWailng-hOuse has the disadvantage that
the light-whetheT it be d gaslight or an
electric ljght-mUst be kept burning all the
evening, and that a servant must be en-
ployed to answer the bell. Thus there is a
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 a hundred candle power,
who Will be on duty from dusk till mid
night--or as much later as may be desired
The girl. viii 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 heI
annual cost is much less than that of a ser
want and a gas light. II, however, any
householder should desire to keep the cleo
tric girl constantly burning and to employ
another servant to answer the bell, there
can be no doubt that the electric girl, pos
ing in u picturesque attitude, viii add
much to the decoration of the house.
Under the present system electric lamps
or gasburners are fixtures, and cannot he
moved from place 10 place. The electric
girls, on the contrary, are movable. One
girl can be made to give as much light as a
large-sized drawing-room chandelier, and
she can be moved from one room TO an
other, leading the way to supper, Tor ex-
ample, and placed wherever she can do the
most good. There can be no comparison
between beautifully designed and chaste-
ly executed electric girl and massive
chandelier that constantly threatens to fall
on somebody's head; and every household
or of esthctic instincts viii be glad to ex-
change ms chandeliers for girls
An inexpensive electric girl of one OF
two candle power will be Of great use when
d person desires to 60 from one room 70
another in a dark house Instead OF hav-
ing to carry a candle in bis hand and incur
the risk of dropping it or having it blown
out by draught Of air, the happy possessor
OF an electric gil can turn her on and send
her before him to light the way The stu
dent who is now troubled by the flicker OF
his GAS light, or his inability 10 move the
electric light from one part Of his desk to
another, can be made perfectly happy by
an electric girl with a ground-glass Shade,
who VIII take any position that the student
may desire in order to throw light ON his
book or paper. No one who becomes ac-
customcd TO such a girl viii think Of re-
turning to old-iashioned methods Of light
ing.-[N View York Times.