Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-10
BEAUTY BEHIND THE BAR.
An English Custom Becoming Established
In San Francisco.

An English Custom Becoming Established
in San Francisco.
One of the features Of English life
which IS stealing its way with ether Gus
toms of the island nation into this free
American lana is that which takes cor
poral shape in the bar-maid, says the
San Francisco Chronicle In this CITY
bar maids, considered as such, are rarely
found among the fixtures of the drinking
resorts, and the genuine English article
is wholly lacking Nevertheless, there
are bsrmaids here, and bar maids, too,
who fill their station with as much grace
and coyness as Is looked for by the aver
age tourist from Great Britain.
A pretty, slender girl, with blue eyes
aud fair ruflled hair, may be seen any day
of the week, except SUNDAY, behind the
bar of one of the largest drinking estab
lishments on Fourth street. With a de-
mure look and condescending smile for
the highly respectable habitues of the
place, aud mixed air Of superiority and
indifference for ordinary "drunks" and
loudly dressed "dudes,n she draws
schooners of foaming beer, removes corks
from wine-bottles and fills pony glasses
after fashion which might well be en-
We'd by the most skllful male bartender.
The proprietor of the place, in CONVEX
sation with reporter, said yesterday that
II he could find enough girls of good
morals and quiet department to learn the
business, he would dispense with the
services OF his male employees. An air Of
quietness and refinement is, he holds, i'm
a ahnEted by the Of nicely
"No ruillanism," said he tino t",,i
swearing or vulgar language, no fobts or
glass breaking are ever seen or basr5 ~
my place nowadays, aud attrihnte +ba
peaceful and church-like state of tbin%s
to the presence OF my lady bartendnr
while at the same time never did hot
ter business or course there are qirls
and girls couldn't expect sucb a sotis
factory condition of affairs with LOT 90
coarse-featured and brazen-faced womon
such as you see in some of the Kearnau
street dives. The character of nIoco
runs down like mercury in an ice.cbeSt
on the Introduction OF such an unsavor,
crowd Of EMPLOYEES"
IL was found In rambling tour ne tho
higher class of drinking resorts on both
SIDES OF Mark street that there he a +en
dency toward the female bartendina
system. "i'ehuing
HOW do young women get accustomed
to this sort of thlng?n asked tbe renortou
OF an authority on this subject. ~ Tho
same tlme glancing in the direction of n |
ueatly Kept par, behind which sat two
German girls. WV
"Well, it isn't like running aos,not
situation in temperance coffee ioint .,
was the reply. GAS a general thing thsy
seI USED 10 IL by degrees. For instance
sIi may nave assisted her folks in RIM.
llng one OF these bakery, grocery and
'eer places, and under such circnm.
'tahces gets to think no more of tnrnjna
aucets and pulling corks for thirsty chs
omers than she does of darniug stockInos
II crocheting. Then, too, the initiatoTv
' ,, Is encouraged by the examples ~
'lueI women sometime by mothers
.sn take you to tltty places ia this town
,here women Of family are on dntv he
lnu tne counter at corner groceries ovar I
'ah tue time while their husbands o. :
way at work. Even at some regnIar 60
IONS this same parctice NAV be observad =
uu younger members of the family ~. !
aueu into service when the motber &c 4
tuerWlSe engaged. In all the instanon, !
! TINS KIND that have come nnder ~, 7
oserVatlon have found no really haS n
lorai tendency. These peonIe attonS a
~ are as honest as the majority ~ "
WI nelgnoors, and drunkenness IL as U
NC WIN them as 1t is with the family ~ n
" oooh-Sellor or tinsmith across tha 7
Az gun, II had four or five daughters
uVh know as my first choice ~ occ,
'S'oh ior them woald be baltending -
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