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When the novelty of Hales' physical proportions wore off, and trade declined, a new attraction was provided in the form of a couple of buxom barmaids attired in bloomer costume importations, so the story goes, from the United States. A far more ancient and reputable house was the Crown and Anchor which had entrances both on the Strand and Arundel Street.
As an experience it was worth having. She could not speak, and we did not. I heard the commercial traveller reading: "The motion was therefore carried by twenty-five votes to nineteen, and the Countess of Chell promised that the whole question of the employment of barmaids should be raised at the next meeting of the B.W.T.S." There! what do you think of that?
They would appear to have studied "attitude" from the pages of the London Journal, coquetry from barmaids the commoner class of barmaids, I mean wit from three-act farces, and manners from the servants'-hall.
Barmaids are a great institution in England that is, they have never more than one man behind a bar, none at all in the railway bars. And a fearful source of ruin to the girls, as they are to thousands of young men I might say tens of thousands every year. These girls are chosen for their beauty and attractiveness.
And any broken-down actors that came along could get up a play if they liked it would brighten up things and help elevate the bullock-drivers and sundowners. I'd have a stage fixed up and a bit of scenery. I'd do all I could to attract shearers to the place after shearing, and keep them from rushing to the next shanty with their cheques, or down to Sydney, to be cleaned out by barmaids.
Instantly three chambermaids, two barmaids, the two maiden sisters who were breakfasting on the shady side of the inn gable, and the dog's owner, who, in a ravishing gown, was taking her coffee under one of the Japanese umbrellas, came rushing out of their respective hiding-places, impelled by an energy and accompanied by an impetuousness rarely seen except perhaps in some heroic attempt to save a drowning child sinking for the last time.
With features so correctly modelled, and a complexion so delicately tinted, Miss Rylance ought to have been lovely. But she had escaped loveliness by a long way. There was something wanting, and that something was very big. 'Good gracious, yes; I've seen dozens of barmaids, answered Bessie Wendover, with her frank voice. 'Do you suppose I've never been into an hotel, or even into a tavern?
And giving the apparent lie to their own sanity and moral stability, many such men have married peasant girls or barmaids, And those to whom evil apportioned itself have been prone to distrust the impulse they obeyed, forgetting that nature makes or mars the individual for the sake, always, of the type.
The public-houses remained continuously open night and day, and the barmen and barmaids never went to bed; every inn engaged special 'talent' in order to attract custom, and for a hundred hours the whole thronged town drank, drank, until the supply of coin of George IV., converging gradually into the coffers of a few persons, ceased to circulate. It was a spacious age.
"But"-he sighed and looked around the noisy glittering place, at the smart barmaids, the well-clad throng of loungers, some in evening dress, the half-dozen gorgeous ladies sitting with men at little tables by the window "I thinks as how you gets more real happiness in a quiet village pub, and the beer is cheaper, and gorblimey!"
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