Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-11-12
PRETTY GIRLS AT WORK.
Something About the Clerks I'm tn
Treasury Department.

About the Clerks I'm the
4s Treasury Department.
Some of the prettiest women in the
country are right here in the Treasury
Department. A great many of them are
Washingtonians, but as q class they
represent the beauty of the whole coun-
try. They are blondes and brunettes,
short and 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, cover.
ing four blocks, is to be found more
beauty than hunt through many large
cities might discover. A large portion Of
the female clerks are young, or at least
ON the minus side of the line beyond
which lies old maidhood. Office life is
mot promotive of longevity, and many of
the elderly women have died off or
reached an age beyond business.
Those who have come into the depart
ment within the past 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 bright lot Of young women.
In many cases it is, perhaps, that they
are the prettiest girls of the family, which
inspires them with an ambition beyond
the drudgery OF housework or the trials
OF Q schoolmarm, and induces them to
strive for the more agreeable work and
better pay under the Civil Service. And
this may account for there being such q
preponderance of good looks.
They are not, ss a rule, gaudy beauties
frescoed and decorated by art, though, of
course, there are some of that type.
They are usually of refined type of good,
sensible, pretty girls--a little beyond
girlhood. They always dress in good
taste, though not generally in an ex-
pensive style. A designer of fashions
might get many valuable points from the
female 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 cannot see with
out the aid of chair or stepladder
The desks are usually provided with
these screens, otherwise they would be
annoyed by the gaze of visitors passing
through the corridors, who would proba-
bly, be numerous If the screens were not
there.
But during the half hour allowed for
lunch . swarm of pretty female clerks
rush about the corridors to exchange bits
OF gossip or to 60 to tea. Washington
may get her reputation for her beautiful
women from the throng that appears on
the avenue on the way home from the
departments after 4 O'Clock.
Whenever there are any number of
people on a visit to Washington the
Treasury ia generally the center of curl
osity, on account of the popular interest
in money. Visitors are always inter
ested in the place where the money is
handled, and some one must be dele.
gated to take charge of them.S sIn
view OF the great number of these visitors
and the prospect of great many more
when the Knights Templar come here
for their convention, number of young
women of the departments have been
designated regularly to act as guides
through the Redemption Agency, where
the old notes are counted and destroyed.
Washington Star.