Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-18
SHOP WINDOW GIRLS
Used for Advertisement in
New York.
ATTRACT BIG CROWDS
POLICE KEPT BUSY MOVING
PEOPLE ON.
Pretty Living Models to Exhibit All
Sorts of Women's Wear
ing Apparel.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

SOTt yet Oul is happening just HOW III tAo
big show window of a Sixth avenue hosiery
establishment large sheet OF spotless
white canvass is suspended from the top
to the bottom of the rear of the window
space. A dozen neat round holes are cut
in a row about two feet from the bottom
of this sheet Of canvas Protruding through
these holes. at frequent intervals during the
shopping hours. are six pairs of extremely
shapely feminine limbs. dressed in most
deliberately clicked and ornamented silk
stockings. held in place above the knee by
garters with diamond buckles The limbs
are rights and lefts, truly enough, and they
have singularly life-like appearance. They
move, In fact, in a most human manner.
The crowd standing in front of the win
dow is startled, after watching the exhibit
ton of Hfe-lfke-looking limbs for ten min
utes or so, to see the same suddenly with
drawn. Then the white canvas sheet is
quickly rolled up and six pretty girls, neat
ly dressed-their skirts of conventional
length-stand side by side, blushing. The
spectators are privileged to guess whether
the hosiery had been displayed upon the
human models. The writer is in a position
to state, in strict confidence that it had.
They've got an extra force Of cops to ham
die the crowds in front Of that store.
Girls in Wrestling Bout.
A sporting goods establishment in 42d
street is putting up a pretty good free
show. A couple of muscular. but perfectly
refined looking, young women. who might
well be Vassar or Smith girls by their looks,
put up about a dozen scientific wrestling
bouts on mat in the huge display window
in the course of the shopping day. They
are strapping girls not much above twenty,
with countenances that are actually lovely.
They wear the girls basket ball rig, ex-
cept that their strong white arms are barred
m 10 hnvyn lntyin C1xy
tutored in wrestling by some master of the
| art. for their methods are in every way the
same as those of male wrestlers. They are
a flushed and painting pair of tall girls by
the time or the other of them gains a
fall. Additional policemen are required to
keep the crowds in front of that window in
| order, too.
A cosmetic establishment in the shopping
district in Broadway, below 14th street,
puts up a show three times a day that
draws crowds which interfere with the pas
sage of the cars on that square. The win
dow is furnished dainty boudoir, all in
old rose. pretty woman, in an under
skirt that subsidies at the bottom in foamy
lace, and with her bare arms protruding
from the armholes of a most enticing cor
set cover, enters the window boudoir from
a door in the rear, seats herself in a gilt
chair before dressing table and proceeds
to do her hair. pencil her brows, powder
her face and arms, apply bit of rouge,
and make up in general, as If for an even
ing at party. She consumes about half an
hour in thus beautifying herself. She is so
pretty, indeed, when she first appears that
there seems to be no need whatever for her
to use cosmetic devices. After she is
through with her toilet she daintily cleanses
her hands in silver bowl, dries them. bows
sweetly and disappears. A lot of the wo-
men newspaper writers have made inef-
fectual efforts to ascertain who this pretty
woman of the cosmetic establishments
window is, but they have not succeeded.
She tells them all that she prefers to con-
ceal her identity.
In 34th street glove emporium there ap-
pears in the show window, at frequent in
tervals during the day, a tall. slender, but
perfectly formed blonde girl In black silk
tights. and with corsage cut very decol-
lete-her arms and bust are Of matchleSs
whiteness-who pulls all manner of long
gloves on and off her shapely hands-and
makes mo thoroughfare" of that part of
Gath street while she is so engaged.
Diamond Dealers Advertisement.
A nightly exhibition in the window Of a
Broadway dealer in imitation diamonds is
that Of handsome and graceful woman
who gives what is called a microscopic
dance" She wears just enough clothing to
dodge the inquirng attention of Mr.. An
thony Comstock, and whatever Of raiment
does cling to her sculptured form is lit
tered with the bogus but quite brilliant
paste jewelry of the establishment in the
window of which she appears. She exc,
cutes a sort of wild gypsy dance, and by
the manipulation of the electric lights,
which are rapidly turned up and down as
she gyrates, the effect is given of moving
picture scene. If you are in a hurry you
must make a detour around that establish
ment when this exhibition is going on, for
the crowds are always enormous.
A sporting goods place in 14th street not
far from 9Th avenue has a very entcing
summer girl in one Of its big windows.
She is used to advertise a new and i'm
proved sort Of hammock. The girl, who
has raven tresses and midnight eyes, and
who is wholesomely pretty from every point
Of view. as well as most demure looking,
reclines in the hammock, reading a novel.
She is dressed in simple white null dress.
She is the picture of dolce far niente. Her
side combs seem to be falling out of her
black hair. her white skirt Is most natural
ly rumpled, and Of course there is afforded
a view Of some inches OF her black silk
hosiery. The girl swings herself in the
hammock and reads with all the COM
plaisance in life, perfectly unmindful, 1t
would SEEM of the hundreds of eyes that
are glued upon her.
These are few of the novelties in the
way of window exhibitions. The pretty
girls who constantly fnhale the vapor
cures for various affections occupy more
windows than ever, and the cigarette girls
in the windows have increased four-fold
during the past year. The competition
among the cigarette manufacturers for the
prettiest Syrian Greek and Egyptian girls
TO De placed IN the WINDOWS While making
cigarettes ragged with great virulence to-
ward the close of last year, and agents
were sent to the orient by several of the
firms, with instructions to. engage the love-
Hest girls they could find and bring them
to New York regardless of expense. The
agents fulfilled their mission, and brought
their consignments of odalisques to this
port-but the port was as far as they got.
The sloe-eyed girls were held up by the
immigration officials as violators of the
contract labor law. and sent back to the
countries whence they came. But down
in the Ghetto. and in the Greek and Sy-
rian quarters pretty girls enough, and
Observation-Disclosures, too, were found. and
there are many of them making cigarettes
in the Broadway cigarette manufacturers
windows dressed Enthusiastically, some of
them, and all trained to be disregardful of
the long continued stares of the curious
crowds.
A Girls Appeal for Friendship.
A little while ago there appeared in one
of the solid New York papers decidedly
plaintive. not to say pathetic, letter from
a young woman. the gist of which was that
she was longing to meet a. companionabIe
woman or two. She stated that she was
a stenographer and typewriter. who had
come to New York about half year before