The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-22


ever thrilled and ecstatic over any manner
Of nororiety conducting to whit she hys-
terically imagines has become a career
EAGER FOR NoToRIETY.
sour barmaids are Just that sort Of male
females, proud Of tap-room publicity, eager
for tawdry notoriety, consumed with ambi-
ton for a public career. But we are the
most fortunate nation. With US, rigid and
healthful, social limitations force these
characters into their proper places at once.
Your female birds Of prey detile and fatten
upon your teuderest and most sacred, social
and domestic institutions. Ours impinEe
only upon our lowest national weaknesses.n
Many will consider this British compare
son and estimate Of our suffering sisterhood
as a very severe one. Some will be ungal-
liant enough to regard it as an unjust classi-
fication of British barrnAins themselves. As
a rule, have found them Woodworking
women. Few ever know q holiday. They
are on their feet from twelve to sixteen
hours per day. Whatever their natural
tendencies, they are perfectly honest. The
British bar system is entirely different from
ours and still retains much of the favor of
the old custom of the publican and his wife
sitting in their own private room and serv-
ing customers with liquors through little
shelf-bottomed window; while the publican.
his wife. or some member CT his family is
hours.
IN MEASURE PROTECTED.
This is much protection to the personality
of the barmaid. Though you may regard
her as lost to all moral sense, and the sig
nificance of words, through the endless rspe-
tition of infamous language in her presence
| by drunken brutes, brainleSs cads and
clever roues, in the main she remains meas
ureably free from rough treatment. The
| modern British bar Is practically walled
extension Of the ancient British bar-window
There is no access to it from the public
room. 1t is as high as your chin. The bar
maid herself, behind the silver beer and ale
pumps, stands two feet above you, a charm
| ing study in black, white and carnation-a
| black, perfect-htting gown, a dainty white
apron, the glory Of the rose in, or on, her
cheeks aud lips.
She is, in fact, just as most men love to
see woman; suggestive of lomesticity in
her raiment, charming in figure and face.
| But after day aud evening of banter and
| wiles, through which scores Of pockets have
been emptied, brains beclouded aud her
master further enriched, the highest and
lowest are remorselessly shut from sight of
her smiling face. 1t is a sad, wearied, tired
| face now. She is practically a prisoner
there. She lives with the publican's family.
She goes to room not fit for dogs keep
ing, snatches few hours sleep and is again
at her post behind the bar to cheer and
wheedle the trembling drunkards Of the
| early morning hours. Her meals are
snatched between ferocious rushes of Gus
| toners at the bar.
SOME OF THE REQUIREMENTS.
She must know everybody; be cognizant
Of something about everything; have q
soothing word for rum-bedeviled tempers
| placidly listen to discussions of herself like
those upon an animal, except direct and
| Infamous insult with invitation In her eyes
and honeyed words upon her lips; sympa-
thetically receive condolences of the most
sacred or damnable character; in brief, TO
the end of her days remain a marble Venus
for the worship sand slavery of Bacchus'
crazed and maddened victims.
For all this she receives from to 20 shil-
| lings per week and keep" Some masters
| provide gowns and aprons. The inconoeiv-
able degradation of her calling can only be
limited at in the statement of fact that there
| is but one place in Great BrItain-at the
refreshment bars of leading railway stations
where refusal to serve one who insults her
| would not lead to her immediate dis charge
without "a character" The lowest grade
in her vocation is among the sailors "Pubs ,
in the slums Of Marylebone, Liverpool and
East End, London; the highest, In che
gorgeous London West End cafes.
| WHERE BARMAIDS END.
What becomes of thema Many die at an
early age Of lung disease. the result of their
foul environment Few drift into the un'
namable classes. Ever seeing the worst
side or men, they are armed, though roughly.
against temptation. Some become mana
geresses of inns, Pubs" of railway refresh.
ment rooms and cafes with a bevy OF
younger barmaids under them, OF cheap mu-
seums, and allmanner Of enterprises at sea-
side resorts.
Many marry reputable men, but drift
back into their old lives. English nobility's
ranks have been recruited from their num-
Der; and recently wealthy young Ameri-
can of Baltimore wed one Of the most beautl-
full and good of their kind in the
three kingdoms-an Irish barmaid at Cork.
No honest man can speak of them unkindly
as a class. The power behind them is
responsible for the evil they accomplish.
That is incalculable. Because of their
presence countless British women find it
easy to become drunkards. Because of
their agreeability, sympathetic kindliness
and outright Establishments, all grades aud
conditions of men are more and more en-
riching the British dram-shop with ali that
should preserve and sanctify the British
home.