ELECTRIC GIRLS.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4871, 20 August 1884, Page 2

ELECTRIC GIRLS.

Ofbom the new tobk timbs.) The introduction of illuminated balletgirls has greatly added to the attractions of the spectacular stage. Girls with lights on their foreheads and batteries concealed in the recesses of their clothing first made their appearance a year Ago, but, as yet, the use of illuminated girls, has Hot spread beyond, the Btage. There 1 is, however,* a great future awaiting the grand idea ,of incandescent girls, and there is reason to "believe that "in avery short timo private houses will be lighted by girls, insteSd of stationary electric lights!! <\ '~~i' , * . - The formation of the Electric Girl Lighting Company is an event second in importance only. to th« inrention of - electric lights. This company proposes to supply girls of fifty candle power each- in - quantities to suit householders. The gitU are to be fed and clothed by the company, and customers will, of course, be per-. mitted to select at the company's warehouse whatever style of girl may please their fancy. A very beautiful design for a front hall , girl is. now on exhibition at the company's office, No. 409 Gold-street. The present ". system of lighting the front hall of a dwelling-house has the disadvantage that the light—whether it be a gat-light or an electric light—must be kept burning all the evening... and that a servant must be employed to answer the bell. Thus there is a double expense—the cost of the* light, and the cost of the servant. The Electric Girl Lighting Company will furnish a beautiful girl of 50 or 100 candle power, who will be on duty from dusk 'till midnight—or ajuauc^ later as may be desired. This girl wil^'remain seated in the hall until some one ring* the front-door bell. She will then 1 turn on her electriclight, open the door, admit the visitor, and light him into the reception-room. One girl thus performs the duties of lighting the front hall and answering the bell, -and her annual cost is much less than that of a* servant and a gas light. If, however, any householder should desire to keep the electric girl constantly burning, and to employ another servant to answer the bell, there can be no doubt that the electric girl,' posing in a picturesque attitude, will add much to the decoration of the house.

Under ••_ the pwsent^^pystem ; electric / lainp9 or} gajjbbur^ ■ ':. cannot be moved Mpm^Ace io^f\iicei. The electric girls, on fth^icpntfMj^ are moveable. One girljSitnH be made ftp gi?«» r as inucli jightC as a large-sized drawing- • room chandelier, and she >; can .be mpred : from onel room to another,^^ leadiDg; tl|e way to supper, for example; and placed wherever she can do tKembstgbddi'Th(Br% can beno comparison between a beauti* fully designed anc[ chastely executed electric girl and a tnassiFe chandelier that constantly-threatens to fall on somebody% 0 head ; and every householder of aesthetic instincts: will beglad to exchange his .- chandeHers'ifor.'.girls.v-;.: '■;■[ &;-C*:\;;& y^U^ %■;'::: An inexpensive electric girl of on©-or' two' candle power will" be of great use ' when a person: wants-to go from one room to another in a dark house. Instead^of haying lo carry a candle in his hand *nd incur'therisk of droppingitor having it' blown pujtiby; a draught of air, the happy possessor of, an electric girl -can;; turnher on and send him before; her to light tlw way. The student who is:now ,trou^9^» by the flicker of his gaSlightV <s>i' his^u^: ability to move- the electric lifht from one part of »his desk to another can be; made perfectly happy by an electric girl which a ground- glass student may detire in order to throw light o^is^bo^ paper^r 1^ one who becomes accustomed td such a W girl will think oCrei^j^tog tooid-fashione«l v methods of lighting^;V, ,'::i --J^' ::':-: :i .;The\nle^'. ■ cpnip^ijy'pprppose ■ ita^raistL"■■". the/ new light at ;ailittle less than the ' ; chargeG made'^byi the:iEdison and BraittS companies, and promise that in Xti short!; time, their JightiwiUbeidecidedly/oheape^^^ than gas.; i Their plant already comprises 2,500 girls/ and bQth^eleß^^ footman will be at^the command of- the public as soon as certain experiments as to the possibility of enabling eleotric boys 'to give \a:-steady ; lighl;€rer;com^eWd^||--.; ■..■'