Great Falls tribune., 1889-11-30
PRETTY GIRLS Al WORK.
Something About the Fair Clerks in thu
Treasury Department.

Something About the Fair Clerks in the
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 class, they
represent the beauty of about the whole
country. They are blondes and brunettes,
short, tall and medium; some plump,
some o,ieenly, 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. large proper
ton of the female clerks are young, or
at least on the minus side of the line be-
yond 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 depart
ment within the last four or five years
are mostly young women, who have Just
nassed 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 d 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 preponderance OF
| good looks.
They are not, as rule, gaudy beauties
frescoed and decorated by art, though Of
course there are some Of that type.
They are usually Of a refined type Of
good, sensible, pretty girls-a little be-
yond girlhood. They always dress in
good taste. though not generally in all
expensive 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 SET
many Of these young women. They arr
apt to be hard at work behind CLOSED
doors or just shut from view by greel
baize screens over which one cannot Sc
without the aid Of chair or step ladder
The desks are usually provided with thes
screens, otherwise they would be an
noyed by the gaze Of the visitors passinl
through the corridors, who would prob
ably be numerousif if the screens were no
there.
But during the half hour allowed fo
Z lunch a swarm of pretty female clerk
rush about the corridors to exchang
) bits Of gossips or to get their tea. Wasf
ington may get her reputation for he
beautiful women from the throng tha
appear on the avenue on the way hom
from the departments after o'clock.
Whenever there are any number
people on visit to Washington the trea'
4ry is generally the center Of curiosity
on ACCOUNT Of the popular interest i
money. Visitors are always intereste
n in the places where the money is HANDLED
. and some one must be delegated to tax
y charge Of them. In view Of the great nun
Der Of these visitors some young wome
" Of the department have been designate
regularly to act as guides through tt
! redemption agency, where the old not
are counted and destroyed. IL Washingtc
Star.