The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-24

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 Among the thousands of tourists who
 are rushing over to England at this sea-
 son it is probable that far the largest
 proportion are going there for the first
 time and are full of eager curiosity to see
 whether or not the country is anything
 like what they have always imagined
 it to be. Men and women usually go
 to Europe with very different anticipa-
 tions. The women go to see picture gal
 leries and churches and to price articles
 of personal adornment. The men go
 to see life. and to learn the foreign
 methods of painting towns red, The
 women have visions of Westminster
 Abbey mad Partisan bonnets, while the
 men dream of the Moulin Rouge ana
 Monte Carlo.
 The observant man who visits Eng
 land for the first time cannot fall 10 pc
 impressed by two great English instl-
 tutions which are absolutely unknown
 in this country. The first of these,
 and the one that will force itself upon
 his attention almost as soon as he lands,
 is the English chimney pot, short slender affair of terracotta, which sur
 mounts every chimney throughout the length and breadth of the land. IT you
 ask any builder why these pots are placed on the chimneys, he will tell you
 that without them the t1ue would not
 draw, Tell him that you have no euch thing in America, and yet the chimneys draw well enough, and ask him if he ever
 tried a chimney without a pot on II, or ever knew any one else to try it, ana ne will reply: "Of course not. If l built 'ouse without pots on the chlmneys, no one would rent it." The next great 1n- stitution, and the one that particularly impresses an American, is the English barmaid Like the chimney pots, they seem to be preferred to the American style because they are supposed to draw better, although the alleged req son for employing them is that they are more honest. Any one who has had HHylulIlS lO tip Nilhi eiiS A'iAIi"N' ''-' man knows that he makes a lifelong study of cheating his employer, either by "sojering" in time at the bench or by abstracting small sums from the money drawer. Keepers of public houses think that barmaids are more honest, and they know that pretty girl draws a certain amount of custom and tends to keep the customers that she has.
 These barmaids are to be found in every grade of saloon, from the lowest "pubs" in Whtechapel, where an American would suppose that retired prize fighter or professional bouncer would be more appropriate, to the most exclusive private hotels ill the West End It is the same all over England, and a pretty barmaid has often good deal to do with attracting the patrons of what are known as commercial ho- tels-that is, hotels frequented by drum mers. It is an old saying that the hand that pulls the beer engine goes with the face that brings the trade. As a class. barmaids have two characteris- tics: they are always good looking and | always young. If you find a woman ] over thirty-five in attendance at an | English bar, you may rest assured that she is the housekeeper and that it is the | barmaids evening out. The typical English barmaid has round face, | strong eyebrows, firmly cut mouth, | and very good teeth-signs of good | sense. self-control, judgment of human | nature and a cheerful disposition. She is always plainly but neatly dressed, speaks in a low, well-bred voice, and has the happy faculty of being all | things to all men.
 Where do all these young and pretty [ girls come from and how do they hap pen to select such a bushes as tending bar? All ranks of life have their out lets for the restless spirits. In all clas- ses there are to be found a certain per- centage of girls who are fond of life and amusement and for whom home comforts have no attractions. They are bored to death with the monotony of sewing and dshwashing. Just as some boys have of craving to go to sea instead of to business, so some girls ong for a freer and wider life than nursing their little brothers and sisters. Girls of the middle classes who have mad the advantage of a good education lsually go upon the stage if they are good looking enough; otherwise they go nto business as clerks or typewriters, )r even as saleswonlen in the big stores. Girls of the lower classes, who have title or no education and have no capi- al but their good looks and jolly dis position, naturally turn to the bar. Sometimes they are recommended by friend already in the business; sorne- ines they know some man who keeps pub" or a hotel, and is willing to rive them a chance. Failing any of hese opportunities they advertise the lsual form being something after this ashion
 YOUNG GIRL would like position in
 hotel to learn the business; willing to
 go for time for nothing. There is no necessity to say that it Is n the bar that she wants employment Any person reading the advertisement nows that. If she is good looking and right, she will have no difficulty in etxkng a chance to try her hand at he beer engines, but there may be a I ood deal of luck in the kind of place { I which she gets start. After a talk ith the proprietor, who tells her what l CT duties will be and what he is will ( nc to nav her if she turns out well t he is probably told to be on hand at a l ertain time and take her first lesson, I