Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-12
MANNERS TO LET.
An Easy Business For Young Men
Who Haven't Bcttert % DO.
From The PhiladelDhia Press.


Anything for meg" One of the adver
Using clerks in the business office of a
big daily paper glanced at the initials on
a card which the inquirer showed him,
! and passed three letters across the coun-
ter. The person to whom they were ad-
| dressed, blond young man with IA small
well-trlmmed moustache, close-crOpped
whiskerets just under his ears, and last
years mustard colored box coat, opened
the first letter, grinned, and showed it 10
friend. Its deuced funny--to them, "
| he said. "Half the answers are guys.
Read this" IL ran:
Please forward by express sample lot of
| yosr ''passable manners" SALLY.
Lets see "your advertisement again, !"
SAID the friend. The other produced it.,
and 1t read:
Young man of passablc appearance and
manners Is willing 10 escort respectable ladies
| TO places of amusement evenings. Address
l.. d. NJ. ofiice.
"Iour ad ien't big enough" SAID the
| friend. Perhaps that is why the young
man talked so openly when reporter
| struck him.
The business isn't as good yet as it
ought to be-" ne said, but | struck an
!
seven last week. One | stayed through
and that paid me IS. The others were to
take and call for and pay 81 80 apiece. or
course | couldn't live on that. Pm card
writer by profession"
"Whero did the ladies come from ?"
"Two OF them were staying at hotels.
One was from Lancaster, and another
from place down in Maryland. Each
one, suppose, had come 10 the city Tor a
| week shnnDipU
aud knew no other way 10 take in the
theatre. Two others were young girls who
| lived, one with n widowed mother and
! one with maiden aunt. The other Ia an
old lady on Mort Fifteenth street, who is
! passlonately fond OF the theatre, and has
nobody To take her. | have made regu-
lar weekly engagement with her"
What's your mode OF procedure 2"
"lftbcy want me they write me to call.
| go In the afternoon, show my references,
which are good, and make Arrangements
as TO whether they want carriage or not,
| for instance, and whether / shall wea T.
evening dress, in which case | charge 81
extra. Than in the evening / appear,
send up my card, and no one knows, think,
that am not wasting my own money in
taking my atflanced, my mother, or my
! wife, as the case may be, to the play,
and, by jove. l don't myself sometimes"
"l on mean them"
Nothing, nothing" said the young
man, giving slight curl to his left whisk-
erlet.
'Still, you'd be surprised, sir, to know
! how much even hired escort is TO some
women. pom my word, they hang on my
arm-l don't mean all OF them-when we
cross the CUTTERS, and they cbatter-I
really believe they're a good deal more
Interested in keeping uplthe make-believe
/ IA.
that that Lancaster woman-she ordered
me in a dress suit, by the way-bas
! formed her idea of city society man
| from my make up. But you mustn't say
anything about that 1t would injure tine
business.p
"Y0u spoke of staying through some
| performances and merely taking to and
calling for others. Can you make two en-
| gagements in a nightW
) Places of amusement my advertise
| ment reads" answered the hired escort.
"There are great many amusements
! besides the theatre-lectuTes, concerts.
and tableauX. Most of these are ous an
hour before the theatres close. In Boston,
! where there are 30 many old maids, you
know, and yet such IA large amusement
| loving population, ! almost ALWAYS had
| two engagements night"
"IOu have lately come from THEREOF
The hired escort sighed. ~ baVe,O be
I said. Would that could have stayed
| there"
| Ah~
Eyes; took young lady three times
| to the museum. Toe third time-well.
ner father was an invalid. | am very
glad he was. If no had possessed his full
vigor do not thing that 1 would have
been able to do what did-that is to say Il,
| leave town."