Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04

can be absolutely certain when YOU reach
the English capital that you will find your
apartments ready, someone waiting for YOU.
carefully attendant upon your slightest
| wish and brimful OF information upon any
| and all subjects about which you might re-
quire to be enlightened.
EVERY WISH SUPPLIED.
You can hire its guides by the day. week
or month, and you can even take them over
on the Continent with you. They perform
every possible duty that one can ask, and
will not only engage rooms at the hotel for
you, but will, if you wish, rent you house
or an apartment and furnish it complete
with artistic taste.
II you choose, the lady guide will travel
with you everywhere, looking after your
luggage, telegraphing ahead for your apart
ments and undertaking to see that YOU miss
no point OF interest as you 60. She will get
you permission to see all sorts of places
which, without her influence, you will not
be allowed to approach,
You can assign children to her care. and
she vii! personally conduct them to their
destination if it be anywhere between
Lands End and John O'Groat's. or even
over upon the Continent, and install them
safely In French pensionnat or German
conservatory of music, as the case NAV be.
The charge for all these services is. for the
lrst class certifcated lady-guide three shil
lings an hour, or about 75 cents-that is. if
you only engage her by the hour. If YOU
take up two hours. your rates instantly be-
gin to decrease, and that costs you but four
shillings, with another shilling for eyery
additional sS hour after If she is hired by
the day she costs you 8 shillings and six
pence, and the week comes to R2 IS. or a
little more than S11. You can have her by
the month for 28 8s or $40.
may here state that there are upward of
zoo ladies registered on the books of the as
ISOLATION to serve as guides, so that no
opening for outsiders exists at present OF
these, 30 ladies have passed the examina-
tions that entitle them to act as first-class
certifcated guides. About 40 belong either
to the second or to the third class of certif.
Gated members, equally ladies if not onite
SO au fait in history and science.
SHOPPING EXPERTS.
But the services I have incidentally al.
luded to are only little of the multitu6i-
nous ways in which a lady guide NAV rem
der herself useful. Take, for instance, shop
ping. To woman there is a lurid fascins-
tion in shopping that no mans Imagination
can comprehend. Take the concentrated
essence of enjoyment a man gets out OF
smoking, baseball, poker and church socials.
and you don't begin to size up the JUNCTION
OF healthy young American wife turned
loose on Oxford street, Regent street. Tot
tenham Court Road and Piccadillv with $50
note In her pocket. To pursue this delight
full occupation :or short and blissful period
is the hearts desire of a yearly Increasing
number OF American ladies, thousands of
whom are able to crafty their propensity
for disposing of large sums of money in the
various marts of London and Paris.
Now, great deal OF energy is wasted by
ladies in their desire to do the best, the very
best. for their money. For instance, in
London they rush about from store to store,
spending lot tor cab hire, and after an ex-
hausting and frultless day they return to
their homes or hotels empty handed of
purchases; thus enttailing another course
over the same track on the morrow. Here
the lady guide steps in, and the saving of
time and money through knowing exactly
the right omnibus, the right train, the cor
rect cab fare, the difference of price in shop
ping In Bond street, Westbeurne Grove or
the city, is soon made evident. I may add |
in this connection that the guides have reg
ular allowances, and are forbidden to accept |
commissions, or extra fees, under penalty of |
dismissal.
A BOOM FOR BACHELORS.
A special department for needlework,
headed by lady who for IA years worked |
tor Princess Louise, opens out new pros
poets over fields of labor as yet unexplored. |
Bachelors living in boarding houses or in |
college find great difficulty in getting their |
linen repaired. The work is we'll adapted |
to the skilled fingers Of gentlewomen, many
Of whom are only too glad to make an |
honest livelihood by administering those
stitches in time which avert catastrophe. |
Not only unmarried men but many ladies |
would be glad to know of place, where |
lace, table linen, and children's clothes |
could be carefully mended, and, in the latter
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