Evening star., 1886-07-17
BEAUTY AT THE DESK.
The Experiences Of Pretty Girls An
Government Omccs
WHAT THE OTHER LADIES SAY AND Do-How
THE PRESENCE OF BEAUTY MANIFEsrs 1T
SELF-yARIoUS THEORIES As To WHAT BE-
COMES OF THE BEAUTIES.

WHAT THE OTHER LADIES SAY AND po-How
THE PRESENCE OF BEAUTY MANIFEsrs IT.
sELF-vARIoUs THEORIES As To WHAT BE-
COMES OF THE BEAUTIES.
Apretty girl in one of the government depart.
ments Is very much like pretty girl any
where else, the subject of good deal OF atten-
ton and the cause OF more or less agitation OF
mind and heart in both sexes. 1t might be in
1erred from the above, and from the peaceful
quiet that prevails as = rule in the rooms of the
department buildings that the pretty girls are
few and far between, but there is no intention
of disparaging i'm amy way the personal appear
anee ef the ladies who render service To Uncle
Sam in return for certain considerations stated
IN dollars and cents Some young and
some are old, Others again are attractive i'm
manner and in form, hut there are still others
VINO ny the general consent of mankind are
conceded to be pretty. The ladies inter-
esteo IN them because they are said TO be beau
ties, and II there Is one thing more than another
that a woman Is bound To find out, IL is what
there is In another woman's face that is said TO
be beautiful. In the efforts to find this out
otner little matters of det Ill come to their OBJ
serVatlon ana the consequence is that what
THE OTHER LADIES
don't know Is not worth knowing. As for the
men, they are always Interested In a pretty
woman and this interest ranges all the way from
the coldly critical standpoint of an artist
through the various grades OF "a masher'
until the eliminating stage is reached
IN the desire to transplant the beauti-
full flowers TO some private garden. The
other ladies note and comment upon all
these grades of admirers and the young woman
Is criticised and talked about until one would
think that her ears would become flames OF
fire II there was any truth I'm the old pro-
verb. But nothing OF this sort happens TO
the ears of the beauty ana while at times
she may lament her fate aud bewail the
not pale nor her figure waste, but she con-
tinues TO bloom amid the speechless as well
as the fOndly vOluble devotion of her male ad-
mirers. Some how ii Is always at once ap-
parent to the senses, when one enters room
where one OF these beauties is devotinR her
energies to her daily toll. There is an atmos-
which perhaps may be attributed to the flowers
on her desk or some feminine tribes which
relieve the non-esthetic barrenness of the
government office, but such adjuncts are found
in other rooms where ladies are work and SO
thsexplanation is not adequate. 1t is there, how
ever, Whatever the explanation may be and
the young man who has just begun his career
and the Older young man VINO has been at it
some years feel and appreciate it, soon as
they approach the room The lawyers clerk
who has business before the department and
the lawyer himself as well as the numerous
girl sits on her throne. She has the power of
making her circle OF acQuaintances very large
and in the course OF time it nturaly becomes
rather extended. Everybody tells her that she
THE PRKrTIEsr GIRL
in the department, and if she had not her mir
Tor ana the eyes OF her admirers To convince her
self OF the fact she could arrive At some con-
clusion of this sort based upon the flowers, and
fruit that are sent TO her, the smiling attention
that she receives and the Invitations out to
lunch. The hours devoted TO toll are eniiv-
ened by the occasional CALL the brief stroll in
the corridor, and while the new era Of reform
may be supposed to change all this, yet the
pretty girl rises superior to all such uatiOns
She receives attention, she gees out to lunch,
and in the evening she may be seen radiant at
the theater. Some say that the pretty de part
ment girl never gets married, but however
that may be she manages TO enjoy life while she
Is young, and she generally remains young
until some rival appears on the scene with
superior attractions. There is "A difference OF
opinion as to what ultimately becomes of the
beauties OF the department. Some think that
She grows old, while others assert that she gets
married. Veteran observers OF department
life maintain that the ladies seldom get mar
ried but this theory has been cOntradicted with
considerable heat by others, who claim that the
matrimonial material in the departments is as
likely to come into the active market as SINH
Lar material in fashionable society.