Show A WOMANS EFFORT TO REFORM BARMAIDS London Feb 28 There are barmaids a In England and at various times sundry philanthropic folk have dreamed of having a law passed which should disband this extraordinary army arm armby by preventing the employment ment of girls as bartenders It is maintained that England is l far behind the United I States State in this matter and that the country will go to the dogs unless the pretty barmaid la Is abolished But the efforts in this direction have met little public DubUc support partly be because because because cause an English institution is not easily set aside a and partly because I Io of o a general conviction that the girl behind the bar is not necessarily I a bad lot So an attempt in a new and more In Interesting interesting I direction has been begun on i behalf of o the barmaid Instead of ber bering be beIng being ing told that she is probably a sinner or lr soon will be one she is merely In Invited invited to come and take tea on Sunday afternoon with a woman who intend to preach to her and who would like to be a good friend and to her own words word would like to give her hera a bit of ot blue sky Bk to see tsee Mrs the leader lender of or this new work is a wealthy woman who is isone isone isone one of the honorary workers In the Church Army the great organization with ith which the Church of or England is unintentionally rivaling General I Booths Salvation Army Arm Mrs Irs I Iley ley has received contributions from the I Church Army Arm and from other sources and engaged four or five bright girls who have been trained as mission I workers to help hel her The work of ot course coume makes it necessary that the barmaids should be visited vl at their I places of ot business for these girls work 1 from Crom 7 In the morning until 1230 at I night and naturally Mrs 1 has found it difficult to enlist women of O her own class to undertake making I the rounds round of such places Another drawback is that the e are really only I about four hours in the day dav when h a work can ean be attempted for the are busy with customers cu from 12 until 2 S or 3 l n the afternoon and oven ven busier bUdler al aU the evening Ip In spite of these difficulties l y and her girl assistants as stants nave have succeeded eded in the last six aix months in visiting over barmaids and nod talk talkIng talkIng Ing lag with them They The take with them a little letter enclosed in un an envelope attractively printed and as little like a tract as possible written simply and without cant yet calculated the tho girl who receives it and an to make m ke keher her think Some Sonic of Df the larger public houses h em employ employ employ ploy as many as barmaids and in others the girls are ure kept busy bUB from morning until night but in every ever case the workers try tr to have a few words with each one of them as well as to hand them therm the letters Every let letter letter letter ter fc L f signed with Mrs hS s name and bears her and the girls are told that she is at t home every Sunday afternoon and will wit be pleased to have them take tea with hT hr h r when whenever whenever ever they can At these teas oJie ofie b e some sometimes times has three or or four tour girls sometimes only one more often zone none Consider Ci rEider girls only breathing br time in the whole week comes 31 on J Sunday afternoon and then is only live hours long It Is not strange that Mrs 1113 little receptions ms are not better patronized That lady lad is entitled now to speak with some authority and she says sa s that there are many more good barmaids barmaid than evil ones The girls usually en enter enter enter ter the business for the simple reason that almost all aU the other lines 11 open to women are paid pal so ro o wretchedly that the a week teck with meals that bar barmaids barmaids barmaids maids receive seems like a fortune Then there is nothing degrading about the work for every barmaid is called Miss and the attitude of ot most pat patrons patrons patrons rons to her is precisely like that of ot otmen men in America to waitresses In res restaurants restaurants restaurants In their visits Mrs Irs ley le and her girls have discovered di covered four barmaids barm who were formerly teachers in Sunday S da schools and several spirited ones who keep a little box on the bar and make men who swear in their presence drop into It a penny when whenever whenever whenever ever they offend off nd One girl collected 4 t and sent it to a charity y fund rund So thus far in their work these th e good women are encouraged In all that girls that they the have seen only one I has failed to receive them courteous courteously ly b Most Moat of them are apparently grate grateful grateful ful tul to find that they are not considered outcasts and when their friends call for tor the second see Mine recognize reco nIze and re receive receive them rat rt warmly From the proprietors of n puba p uba and the men who are drinking there the girl visitors say sa they t e have never had anything but respectful r 3 Horl il among the barmaids has hasl yet l r newspaper n atten attention Lion tion ti in lit and Mrs Irs hopes that It Vill receive c ive he none because bec uSe she tears fears that If It her er r efforts are ar de described described scribed as a movement the publicans as they are called al ed would think that they the were to b ha bg deprived of ot their girls and the o d no longer l nger be beal beall al allowed allow lowed low l w to them The reason reson that Mrs Irs Ch and the tn Church Ch Army do not make art effort to get the girls out Jut of ot the th public houses Is that they know what to do with sf of them after that was or for the army accomplished As for tor the girls themselves the great of ofAs majority of them would leave in m a mo moment moment ment if it they could make as much money mone elsewhere in a more more elevated railing calling The hours are terribly long they the are obliged to stand all an through them There is dirty work te be done in inthe inthe inthe the morning sometimes insults to put with and always the temptation to up of drink Mrs says fewer them yield to this temptation than would be expected usually related to the The girls are of his are the relatives proprietor or I friends and some of them enter the I of H 14 They business as early as the age find their husbands husban 5 in the public houses If It they dont get married and I retire they the die young oung the Oe h result of the hard work and long hours At least that was vas what the girls girte said when ask asked asked asked I barmaids ed what became of ot the old What Mrs y hopes to ac accomplish accomplish eventually she hardly knows I the city f fot Her ideal is finally to divide of ot London up into districts and enlist women workers enough to look after I the girls rather carefully in case any I Then to of f them is B ill III or in trouble I find a woman of some prestige in each of ot those thase districts who would receive the girls on Sunday Sunda or whenever they could come and counsel them if it they needed need it It At present has been spent perit o the work od MARSHALL LORD |