The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-12-05
PRETTY GIRLS AT WORK.
Something About the Fair Clerks In the
Treasury Department.

Some of the pretty women in the
country are right here in the treasury
department. . A great many of them
are Washingtonians, but, as class,
they represent the beauty of about the
whole country. They are blondes and
brunets, short, tall and medium; some
plump. some queenly, some of 1.-THE and
willowy form-they are fairly the types
of the several great cities and about all
the states of the union. In that one
building, covering four blocks, is to be
found more beauty than hunt through
many large cities might discover. A
large proportion OF the female clerks
are young, or at least on the minus
side of the line beyond which lies old
maidhood. Office life is not promotive
of longevity, and many of the elderly
women have died off or reached an age
beyond usefulness. Those who have
come into the department within the
last four or five years are mostly young
women, who have just passed through
the normal schools and have entered
the government service through the
civil-service examination. They are a
bright lot of young women. In many
cases it is, perhaps, that they are the
prettiest girls of the family which in
spires them with an ambition beyond
the drudgery of homework or the trials
of a schoolmarm and induces them to
strive for the more agreeable work
and better pay under the civil service.
And this NAV account for there being
such preponderance of good looks.
They are not, as rule, gaudy beau
ties frescoed and decorated by art, says
the Washington Star, though of course
there are some of that type. They are
usually ola refined type of good, sem
sible, pretty girls-a little beyond girl
hood. They always dress in good taste,
though not generally in an expensive
style. A designer of fashions might
get many valuable points from the fe-
male treasury clerk.
During the ordinary working hours
the visitor to the treasury will not see
many of these young women. They
are apt to be hard at work behind
closed doors or just shut from view by
green baize screens over which one
can not see without the aid of a chair
or step-ladder. The desks are usually
provided with these screens, otherwise
they would be annoyed by the gaze of
the visitors passing through the corri-
doris, who would probably be numer-
Gus if the screens were not there.
But during the half hour allowed for
lunch a swarm of pretty female clerks
rush about the corridors to exchange
bits of gossip or to get their tea. Wash
ington may get her reputation for
beautiful women from the throng that
appear on the avenue on the way
home from the departments after 4
o'clock.
Whenever there are any number of
people on visit to Washington the
treasury department is generally the
| center of curiosity. on account of the
popular interest in money. Visitors
are always interested in the places
where the money is handled, and some
one must be delegated to take charge
| of them. In view OF the great number of
of these visitors a number OF Young
| women of the department have been
designated regularly to act as guides
through the redemption agency, where
| abe old notes are counted and destroy
ed