Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-02-17
RARMAIDS IN LONDON
SOME VERY RESPECTABLE GIRLS
 CHOOSE THIS VOCATION.

OAAo VI Ahefas Q Beautiful Irish Lose yTv
 plains Why Many of Them Do so-Tbev
 Are Looking For Good Matrimonial
 eatehes-Titles Wanted Usually.
 Under the title Feminine Types In London" Jesse Francis Sheppard gives in Le NouYelle Revue an account of fhe London barmaids.
 They are recruited. he sava among the bourgeoise as we'll as anono the lower classes. Some of the most ins teEesting types can be found in the bara or public houses of the west end. close to the fashionable theaters. Among them are very many perfectly respeeta7 ble girls, who have chosen the career of barmaid in order to make living and, especially if they are pretty. to get chance to catch a rich husband.
 A public house, situated at the angle of one of the principal thoroughfares, is both gilded palace and mine of gold. 1t exercises strange fascination upon the poor country pumpkins who have just enough to pay for drink, but the dude coming out of theater, the coun. try greenIcrn, the fashionable snob and the 1requenter of the music halls are aI- ways to be found there. It is among these chat the barmaids hunt for a hus- band. If there is one class of London society more stupid than another, it is that one which includes the frequenters of the public houses. With a pipe in his mouth and glass of beer or whisky in front of him the young Englishman, dressed in fashionable style, with slight and elegant figure and regular features, remains standing for more than an hour paying pretty little compliments to one or several of these ladies.
 ''The barmaid judges her customers oy the cut of their clothes. If you want to attract her attention, you must pre- sent yourself with a silk hat and a handsome cane in your hand and a suit cut in the latest fashion The high hat is de rigueur. Without that there is no possible chance of success.
 It was not without difficulty that managed to get an interview with one of these young ladies, whose intelligence was equal to her beauty. At first was astonished at finding so much intelli- genoe in an English girl, but learned that she was Irish. and that explained the mystery. Her father was dead and her mother was left without resources. So she was determined to come to Lon don and look for a husband by posing behind bar in Pioeadilly.
 
 q I was hardly more than three days here, sho said with an amiable and roguish air, when I understood why it was that so many pretty English girls don't get husbands. When they are beautiful, they are generally stupid. When they are intelligent, they are cold, masculine and ugly. Englishmen travel a great deal and meet in their ramblings through tho world very many sprightly women, and they do not care for pretty girls who don't know how to chat with them.
 " But in this mixture that comes here to drink and chat, I said, how do you distinguish the men of the world from the others?'
 "sI recognize them by three things, she said boldly, by their figure, by their clothes and by their complexion. For the most part they are tall and thin, dressed in the latest fashion and have complexion more or less bronzed. This last trait is the surest sign. Seeing that I looked astonished, she added: Moth ing can be more simple An English gentleman, if he has a fortune, passes three-fourths of his time hunting and in other open air exercise. The chaps who remain always ill London have paler and more delicate complexion, and, moreover, the expression of theIr faces is quite different from that of the others.
 Noticing with what attention l was listening to her, she continued Ihe gentlemen that I refer to have nothing elegant about them except their clothes, for their conversation lacks novelty. How can man who understands noth- jng but hunting and cricket interest an infelipent woman? The conversation that goes on here in the name of wit makes me tired, but these gentlemen are the easiest of all to deceive. They are great big children in everything except sport and politics.
 "sBut you are always engaged, said. .and it is difficult to get an opporI, tunity to chat with you. You must al- ready have had several offers Of mar riage" .ouo and [ have already had three Two were from very rich sportsmen, but am alr after, she added, laughing, is a title You know, must have title
 "At this moment tho play in one ol the neiehboring theaters was over, ana l inc public house was invaded by a crowd of men. more or less sty fish. The beautiful irish girl kept herself some what aloof and only served customers that had the appearance of gentlemen;
 well, I left London. A few months afterward, on returning there, wanted f,-l fsTC