ENGLISH SHOP GIRLS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 947, 28 May 1881, Page 2 (Supplement)

ENGLISH SHOP GIRLS.

The handsomest women in England are the shop-girls. It is difficult to tell why it is so, but it is true nevertheless, that the most restaurants have the most beautiful female employes. The Criterion, for instance w’hich is a new’ and splendid establishment, has two or three dozen employed and the man who selected them must have had the eye of a painter and the heart of a poet. He could have hardly improved upon his selection had he searched the world. All types of beauty are represented. There is the robust and well-rounded blonde of England, and the languid but rotund brunette of the East, with wanton tresses glistening in lymphatic loveliness, and dark oriental eyes rising timidly through a profusion of silky lashes. The establisement is a favoriteresort for Americans, and its dinners are the best to be had in London, though he who enjoys them has to pay roundly for the luxury. Indeed,

it is a mistaken idea that everything in London is, cheap. The unfortunate individual who comes over w’ith that idea is doomed to disappointment. Whether it is because of the extravagance of so many rich fools who come here to spend money, or because of the higher wages paid employes of late years, I know not; but this I know, that the cost of being a gentleman in London is almost as great as the cost of being a gentleman in Louisville, though what you get is better, it matters not in what commodity you invest.