Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
WOULD HAVE BARMAIDS q,
PUT UNDER THE BAN
AMERICAN WOMAN STARTS CRU
SADIE AGAINST THEM
Believes Women as Servers of Drink
Are DemoraIizing to Men and
Ruinous to emseIves-Hopes to
Do Away With Them
Special Cable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, April 14.-Mrs. G. Savory,
an American lady, has commenced a
crusade in England against the bar
maid. Mrs. Savory says that she is
not particularly interested in Woman's
Christian Temperance union work and
that she had not the slightest idea that
there were such persons as barmaids
until she reached London. In giving
her experiences at Claremont hall this
week and detailing her impressions of
English bars and barmaids. she drew
forth alternate laughter and applause.
when L got off at Waterloo station
on my arrival in London 1 saw some
women through the window of a public
house." she remarked II said to my
husband, Those are women He re-
Piled Yes, they are barmaids.'
Now we do not have women bar
maids in America, and since my ar
rival in England / have commenced to
investigate this subject. do not know
that 1 ought to say that women do not
drink in America because that is not
true. But it is considered disgrace
for any woman to drink in America
and those who do drink do it on the
sly. So when / came to England where
women do drink felt that / must wear
goloshes or L should be drowned in it..
81 do not want to brag about
America, but / had never seen bar
maid there, and when T found them
here l commenced to ask about them.
/ asked whether they did employ women
as barmaids. was told that there was
no law against it in the United States
That kind Of answering would not do
for me, however, and asked whether
a woman barmaid had ever been heard
of in our country. My husband tried
to dodge the Question, but finally adj
mitted that he had heard Of publican
in one of the western states who
thought he would like a barmad, got
one, and they strung him up for en-
ploying her.
"Then 1 commenced to inquire what
were the customs in other parts of the
world. 1 found that they did have bar
maids among the heather out in Bur-
ma, but by new law which comes
into force next month they have been
abolished even there. Continuing my
Investigations and inquiries I found
that the employment of women in
drinking bars has just been forbidden
by the authorities in Calcutta. SO /
concluded that England was getting
behind the times and that 1t was get
ting about time for the people here in
London to wake up.
Il belleVe halr the puDllcanS OF LON
don would like to do away with the
barmaids and employ men. The only
excuse I have heard offered is that
drinking is more of a pleasure If you
can talk to girl at the bar. But 1
cannot bear to see barmaids slaugh-
tered and their womanhood sacrificed
The barmaid is absolutely the most un-
protected girl in the world. Then the
atmosphere of bars is also something
to be considered. You know your Rev.
r. J. Campbell of the City Temple. on
coming back from America, remarked:
Il could study five times as well in st.
Louis or New York as L cam here. 1t
must be the atmosphere l believe it
must be the atmosphere. 1t looks to
me as though you cannot get any
atmosphere in England but the bar
atmosphere.
"Now this question of barmaids is
going to be put right UP to the English
parliament itself. We are going to ask
that barmaid shall wear badge and
be given a certificate so that she may
get position afterward. The average
life of a barmaid-that is, the time she
remains behind the bar-is five years,
and we want to find her place after
that. Seriously, the subject is one
which should stir the people of England
to immediate action"