The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-05-11
GIRL
Newark Avenue Stores Are
Full of Beautiful
Ones.
THEY ENJOY LIFE, TOO.
Their Accomplishments and Pleas
ures and Personal Traits.

ping companion, as both emerged from a
prominent business house on Newark
avenue few days ago.
Which one?'' asked her companion.
II saw SO many pretty faces confess I
am at loss to place the one you have
special reference to.
That girl standing in the centre OF the
| group on the left, near the door. Did you
ever see such expressive eyes and
mo, my attention was attracted by q
lovely face.5n the right y
II would give half my money to pos
sess that girls face and figure, ,: said the
lady, and her silks rustled as she passed
the reporter. And just think, Jenny. of
those girls doomed to such q life Of druid
gerry and -p
'Drudgeryl Amt you mistaken. . said
the companion. II imagine they rather
like it. And pretty Really | think Jer-
sey City has the handsoInest and most
entertaining salesladies in the
| The rumbling Of heavily laden truck
drowned the speakers words.
IS IT DRUDGERY2
They are talking about our store
girls. mentally exclaimed Drudgery2
| am inclined to agree with the woman
whose words were drowned by the voice
of the passing truck Is life to these
girls drudgery2 If one is to Judge by
the expression usually found on the faces
of the girls who handle ribbons, flowers,
buttons, etc. behind the counters of our
leading stores there can be no doubt that
| they enjoy rather than despfse their occu-
pattons and yet | suspect that to many
| of them the life they are leading at times
grows monotonous and irksome. Nat
urally they are of q buoyant disposition.
While there are many who accept such
4rr.n -.
same time enjoy the excitement incident
to contact with the world. there are hum
dreds Of them who are compelled, at least
by preferment, to thus support them
selves, dress well and help their social
positions rather than be dragged down by
the adyersities Of those upon whom they
had hitherto depended for support.
Some there are who fill such positions
periodically to earn money to keep pace
In dress with their more fortunate COM
panions; to further beautify and adorn
the beauty God gave them. In many in
stances they are the daughters Of COM
| fortably fixed parents-girls who have
been educated in the public schools,
many OF them graduates of the High
School specially among those who are
taken on as extras during the holidays
and on SATURDAYS.
Many of them you will find at exclusive
evening sociables; but you will seldom
| the association under whose auspices the
dance is given has a reputable social
| standing. Indeed, you will seldom find
them even at these. The great majority
of them have been trained IN the Sunday
Schools and are prejudiced against dane
| fng-at least TO excess.
And here comes in a point SO thorough
| " demonstrated a thousand times over.
| The religiously trained boy or girl is one
| Ia whom an employer viii trust every
time in preference to one who has not
been so trained.
At each of the business houses I subse-
quently visited, where a number of girls
were employed. | was told it was an in
frequent occurrence for q girl to COM
plain in the morning of loss of sleep from
social excesses. They all appreciate too
highly the value of what they are pleased
to term their beauty Sleep" said one with
whom conversed confidentialIy.
Many of these girls are possessed of in
tellectual and other much priced accom-
piishments They are human, and some
of them exhibit at times q decided fncl-
nation to fiirt. But all of them will re-
sent undue familiarity.
As in ball room, or, in fact, any
where else, there exists more or less of q
sentiment of pleasant rivalry among the
|. acknowledged beauties, and personal
criticisms are freely INDUCED in by their
acquaintance.
IN stroli through several Oh the lead
ing stores rev Gays ago a rev Were
Poln.eu OUT rom ehe many VINO are popu,
laL WIN eneif STORE companions, ana
whose regulations Ior beauty ana accom-
plishments extend beyond the immediate
limits Of this circle.
TIE BosToN,s GIRLS.
l nrst cropped into Mr.. Metzier's Bos-
Ton store Inc great majority OF MI
Metzler IS empioyes are men But one or
exclusively IN charge Oh pretty sales
iauies.
JuI pTiae e IN having an accom-,
plisnsu set OF gir1s IN eacn department,
salu Mr. MetzieT, put Tor information
ior slory Will nave 70 ieaVe you n
charge OF - -, VINO no DOUBT can ten
you many peasant tnlngs aoeut tne bos-
soA Substances.
MI. Mel1ier tells the truth, sald -.
Almost every girl you see IN this depart
ment mas some special complishmen1
beside tneir ABILITY as saIesladles- For
instance, there's Miss Halle Fowler.
ones charming singer. - - point
eu 10 q pretty seml-orunette, Win
graceful ngure and Large expressive daTk
eyes Miss Whelan there, TOO, Is a tai
enled ana pretty prunet-e. MISS Jones,
thag pretty Young plonoe tnere IN tne
neck wear department., Is one OF the pest
eoncated young ladies IN the store. You
see sne caught the craze Tor snort, curly
nalr Bat she's pretty, isn't shes Now,
MISS LA koehier, That sJyllsh-looklng
prunette IN Inc notlon department. the
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