The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-22
The Cigar Stand Girl
By Ebert HUBBARD.

A NEW type OF new woman haH
"a evolved, You will find her pre-
siding at the cigar stand In the lobby
OF the first hotel you enter.
She corresponds 10 the bar maid OF
merry England, being sort OF sur
rival OF the days when Shakespeare
made love 10 Mistress Davenant at
the Oxford inn.
This girl at the cigar stand is duffy
ruffles with business education. Her
halr effect IL wonderful to conter-
plate; her manner friendly: her In
formation colossal. She knows ev-
erybody and their relatives and calls
thousand men by their first names.
When not otherwise employed you
VIII find her carefully examining her
features in hand mirror and apply
ins the polish 10 the part OF her
CLASSIC. physiosnomy that seems TO
This operation. 7 have sometimes
thought. is in the line OF publicity. II
Is always interesting and usually
causes comments by the males who
stand close by.
cigar girls, The demand now seems 10
be for the blonde with the Titan
crown OF glory.
Next in favor is the bichlorlde ef-
Iect, with widows weeds TO match
This one usually goes on at 5 o'clock
and works until II. Her partner
who goes on at o'clock IN the morn
ing and works until 3. IL played Off
against her By contrast.
Inc lady !s never cast down o.
aoashed. Good cheer Is her chief
asset. She shakes hands with all the
customers. young and old. as she
passes OUT the persilare. Jolly and
Josh leap easily from her fabricated
tongue.
She lives right ont in sight Of tire
public. Her life Is above suspicion
No man 1lrts with her excepting
across the glass case where tte c!-
Ssrs are kept 4 full yard OF dis
tanee separates her, save as she
hand.
She knows the smokers all. OF az
least she prstendg TO- Zach one fat
ters himseh that he Is next The
older ne Is. the palder he Is. and the
affinity nnicrobe is In his a1ind. and
nowhere else
a itt!e mild gossip with the cir!
a shaking Of the dice, the telling OF
a few stories. trimmed with lilac
neTce. black clgar-these things tui-
I'll the requirements for BIT OF
psrchic deViltTy, and satlsty the am
billions OF the hss-oeen.
In any event, no buys cigars. and
the bones In the leather box. ano then
she throws out the dice on the glass
case, She throws again and again
And then thew shake for the cigars
The more the giri shakes the more
moncy She makes. II she could DO
this all day she would make money
for the institution. She knows this
fun well. because the man buys cigars
at the retail price. and wbsn she
loses she loses at Wholesale; and so
" this girl did pothing else but shake
dice for cigars. according To the law
OF averages. she would be money TO
the good
She Is an honest girl. she g!ves
an undivided service and she adds
greatly 70 The good cheer and To the
picturesqueness OF the lobby. just az
women always do wherever they cfh-
ciate.
Depend upon this, that no girl n.
the cigar stand who meets any OF her
customers In executive session ever
holds her job The girl at the coun-
ter that you zee there week after
week, month after month. ig on the
dead level She Is a working woman
and her yuffles. Nufles. fr1vole.
smiles, rouge and wonderful hirsuts
creations are al In the lire OF legtt!-
mato business.
Al the same time she drives away
nostalgia from the hotel habitue. Two
hundred times q day she Is addressed
as "Sister' and conhdendally told
that she looks exactly Ike MY
Wife" "My Daughter or My
Sweetheart rs tho case niay be
Eve hundred t!mes 4 day she IN
called ''Kiddo,