The sun., 1903-05-03
The BARMAIDS or LONDON
AND THE SOCIAL LIFE or WHICH
THEY FORM PART.

DuOne enn lUeir Dutln8s-SOCtal
Limits OF the Dar--WOmen Among
Their Gust In Saloons.
LONDON. April lG-In smart London bars
the barmaids are supposed to be delicious
Why, they even pay attention tother names,
90 as To have attractivs ones, like Gipsy
Dolly, Duokie. Tootsie, Jack and NlA.to.
You walk in and say; "Ah, AIasie how arc
you to-day and where were you last night9
You look bit fatigued under the eyes,
dear."
And she answers:
Il cannot account for It. sir, because
I was In bed by 10 O'clock Then sl.s
will say:
Whist are you here for?"
While you are slipping it. she will remark
Il never got those gloves you promised
me-"
You tell her to come out and have them
now. BY which time you have finished
your sherry and bitters. So. when she
tells you to 60 out now and buy me a
nice bouquet" you go.
This is called jollying tho barnaids,
favorite pastime with several types Of
Londoners, the best OF whom 60 through
it automatically, like good-hearted lubbery
| brothers and with no latent fire in their
! boozy eyes.
There are 80 many men in London who
know no one that this contingen alone
| would justify the barmaid as a social feat
ure and suffice to keep her sen.respect
up, Masie can pick and choose among
the lonely men. She is in demand.
The lonely mes know the date Of her
day of and embarrass her with invitations
in all honor When they 60 visiting in
other bars. she and her escort will be
treated as distinguished guests by all the
working barlnaids. sympathetic to do
honor to sister
On such excursions the no longer lonely
man ought not drink overmuch, because
Mase is not out to study the effect Of alco.
hol upon his nervous system. She seea
lots OF that at home.
She Graves respect. She is enamored
Of social conventions. So the visiting
around becomes a pathetic imitation Of
the afternoon call
Beer and spirits' The smell OF the Lon-
don pub ia strong and searching. Tho
bar itself is divided into varying social
heavens but tho barmaids must attend
to all indiferently
There is tho public bar, q large and dirty
space whore workingnen wrangle ove1
their -four ale; the bottle and jug BARI
with its hosts Of children fetching beer forI
father's meal or mothers S O'Clock: theS
private bar, whore customers begin to call
her Duokie; the saloon bar. In which nd
drink costa less than threepence; the bar
psrlor. tho empyrean. where ono talks
gloves, bouquets. bon.bons and theatre
tickets.
Tootsie will tell you that 'four ale Is
horrid to handle. Retailed to the humble
but thirsty at fourpenoe, the imperial
quart, the filling liquid which ought I'd
como from the brewer, is re-davored with
al the drippings Of the bar-beer, porter.
stout, gin. rum whskey. any old thing !
Composite In its essence when At ito bestI
as a brewers refining OF bar waste. 1t is|
self; and they say that its atomic equilibriup
turn 1t.
supplying one's sisters with four ale takeS
all tho romance out of the Bacchanaliaa
revell
They come nocktng to the bottle and jug
bar. Let US count them-nine women.
or fifteen. II you count two baby girls and
four little girls with their marnmas. The
mamma. quite a decent body in gloves, is
now calling for a half-quartern Of Irish
warm and. after swallowing three parts Of
it, will pass 1t to her ofspring-'Here
you are. Marthal'-as II 1t were 90 much
milkl
Three other women chat Of their hus-
bands.
.That's all he brings mo homo, a. I'm
q Christian. fourteen bob-and fve OF us to
keep. Well. drink up! I'll be fourpence
to your tuppenoe this time. Mrs. Wa;ersi'
Their language is proper aid their views
are conservative. It Ii the business Of
woman to be a wife. And 1t is the business
Of a man to bring home his money on :
Saturday night.
The pub" Is their exchange. vheratn
to compare takings. It 10 not . place to
debauch. It Is an adjunct TO the home. 1
heartless way in which two such .deoent
bodies" talking home and husband stopped
first to encourage. then draw out. and
then chan an unhappy tipsy girl OF real
refinement both In dress and manner
who in all innocence leaned on them mourn.
ing in her gentle nnaudlin way
One does not see these awful apostles
or these resources In deepair-in other
lands. The poor thin-faced pretty thing
looked something higher than the type
Of shop-girl, perhaps goveness; | would
not let myself stand there and listen IA
the older women grinned and winked be-
hind her back, persuaded her to stand
refreshments for them, ard pretended
to be sympathetic. So I know only that
she came from Birmingham in much dis
tress, was all alone in London, had telta
faintness coming Ger her--~hence thus
booze-and that 1t made no matter any.
way. beca use she wished that she was dead
Just OF the Strand as you go to the
Charing Gross underground station, there
Il Gatti bar In which two barmaids have
to do with as refined ard WE'LL o-do clien-
tele as any barmaid could desire
The Only women customers ere c. sun
from the tr iis nd tired.limbe bed proNnc,al
women resting from their shopping, with
their modest gu IS in ~ nd, g. iEst the
ftI T. intLess, the inv RI bic exp' na non
Of this isls nd'> feminiIity for ha wing some
thing One Of these nice barn ids Us JACK
while the others n, me is Lizzie
Need it be ~ Id thn j. ok u sWeetly pretty.
wir some, gy end smiling while Pool
Lizzie. morose. sour and save &c, s 80 pl,in
th4t men turn from her-even business
men who are In re- hurry -,
Jtok is an glish gypsy brunette WIN
great melting bb ok eyes, mouth red IKE