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Show LADY CQ'JRIEaS. A New lmpioymeut for Members of tlio Gentler Sex. In the numerous schemes for providing provid-ing ''our girls" with employment, writes Mrs. Crawford in London Truth, one outlet which might be greatly developed de-veloped has been overlooked. The lady courier"is not yet to the front. But she is likely to bo so. 1 traveled a short time ago with one. She informed me that she spends as much time in steamers steam-ers and railways as the queen's messenger mes-senger or the indefatigable mother of the prince of Bulgaria. As her life is a wearing one she stipulates for handsome hand-some fees. They are often given ungrudgingly un-grudgingly to her, and she is boarded and lodged as though she were a duchess when traveling with rich and delicate ladies. The lady courier is expected ex-pected to be as well posted up as the man courier. Tho one I had the pleasure pleas-ure of talking with is sometimes employed em-ployed to escort young ladies from one end of Europe to the other, and is sufficiently- wcu bcrn and educated to go with them, if need be, into society. She made a number of sea voyages as an assistant stewardess to make herself proof against seasickness, with which she is no longer troubled. One of her trottbles is being expected, when she travels with dull persons of her own sex. to amuse them. As they only care for gossip, and like it to be ill natuved, she backbites to their hearts' content. But to guard against the danger of mischief mis-chief making she invents her characters. charac-ters. They do quite as well as if they were real. When she deals in eulogium she no longer drawson her imagination. A son-in-law of this useful person is a colonel. The halcyon days of this lady courier were when Smith American republics re-publics were being boomed on tho stock exchanges and the money llowed in a steady stream to Buenos Ayres. The ladies tvho came thence 10 see life in Europe were indolent, spent freely the capital which their husbands found means of getting for the asking. They never quarreled with her for high charges, but she had to spare them every land of trouble, and even that of choosing their confessors in cities where they were strangers. The lady courier I speak of is negotiating the purchase of a i;k'on Lake Como. She hopes soon to bo rich enough to retire to live there. |