The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-12-11
GUARDIAN ANGELS.
Professional Protectors Of Bibulous
Gentlemen.
a Useful Institution Not Altogether
Confined to tho Gay French
Capitalism Expensive
Luxury.

ants which he described as o bizarre
novelty in Partisan business methods.
He said that these attendants were
known professionally as Guardian
Angels" They have become, he wrote,
quite numerous in the more thickly
populated quarter of the French cap
ital. The attendants get their title
because they are called upon to keep
watch and ward over and insure safe
conduct home to working people who
frequent the smaller cafes, and without
the protection of the angel might fall
prey to the petty criminals who lurk in
the streets at night to rob inebriated
working-men and other more or less
helpless wayfarers.
New York, says the Sun of that city,
has for a long time had its counterpart
of the Partisan guardian angels. He is
acurious, entertaining and beneficent
servant of the public that was brought
into existence by the amazing growth
of hotel life in this town during the
last few years, and by the increase in
the number of the fashionable restau-
rants. Here, however, it is only these
fashionable hotels and cafes which can
support the luxury of angels. They are
too expensive a feature apparently to
justify the proprietors of the saloons
in the tenement districts in en-
ploying them. The guardian angel
of Gotham Is an affable and
well-informed special police officer
detailed by the police commissioners,
and reporting regularly to Acting Su-
perintendent Of Police Byrnes. He
works harmoniously with the other
serviceable attendant of the swell cafe
who is called the bouncer. The bouncer
is a professional boxer whose duty it is
to maintain order and to get obstreper-
Gus visitors out of the establishment
without any fuss or feathers and with
out attracting too general attention.
The angel, on the other hand, makes 1t
his business to see that no harm befalls
the cafe or hotel patron who has become
little too convival for his own good,
and needs the assistance Of just such
guide, philosopher, and friend as the
angel is to keep him from parting with
his valuables.
"The idea of having guardian an
GEL" said the angel of the Hoffman
House, may strike men about town as
something of q practical joke, and they
may believe that the angel Is myth.
But they are mistaken, for amt / here
TO prove that guardian angels are regu-
Lar institutions? Many men in this
town are thankful for the help of the
professional angel. We see that they
are sent safely home if they get too
much aboard, or we get them accommo-
aations at the hotel If they aren't able
10 Wo 30, %La, 70 y{oh
bath and straighten them out before
putting them to bed, and in numerous
other ways perform service that
square man isn't very apt to forget,
which happen to know not one in
hundred fails to remember in substan-
tial fashion on other days besides Christ
mas"
A striking illustration of the oppor-
tune serviceableness of the guardian
angel was furnished recently at the
Hoffman House. just before public re-
:eption. A handsome man, dressed in
black, came from the private dining
rooms and staggered along the tiled cor.
ridor. His face was flushed with wine.
"HeavensP' cried the angel, with a
start as he caught sight of the guest,
1--WE must get that man to room quick"
The man was hustled into the elevator
Ind taken to a room in a hurry.
"What's the excitement about?" asked
bystander, when the angel returned.
"a good deal more than you think"
returned the little guardian. 'That
man would be disgraced in his profession
were he to be seen in that condition at
the reception upstairs. He is one of the
best known professional men in this
:ity. The nature Of his calling makes
1t imperative that he should never be
seen in public under the influence Of
wine. 1t was narrow escape, though.
But he's all right now. Nobody will
know any thing of it. He will be
straight as string again when he leaves
Cor home, depend upon it."
The existence Of the professional
guardian angel is boon to many men Of
means who have habit of getting oc-
casionally too convivial to take care of
themselves. They depend upon the
friendly surveillance Of the angel, and
give themselves up freely for the time
being to the delights of the flowing bowl.
"Not once in a thousand times" said
professional angel, "does friend who
to get the cab hire as soon as he reaches
his charges home. A man mean enough
to back out OF paying fare back under
such circumstances is too mean to spend
enough to get SO full Sometimes
we don't collect at the mans house at
all. We just escort him in and say in
an explanatory way, 'Mr. Pillycarp ate
something at dinner that disagreed with
him and couldn't get home before,
ma'am, but he's all right now; or he will
be all right in the morning The next
time we meet the good fellow word is
enough to bring the incident back to
his memory, and he pays the cab hire
promptly. Often man will be
exuberantly generous. He'll want to
crack bottle Of wine with US, and he
hands a FIVE or ten dollar note over.
with the remark: Go bot that on the
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