REFLECTIONS AT THE BAR.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 501, 8 May 1869, Page 3

REFLECTIONS AT THE BAR.

In "Routledge's Christmas Annual," a " refreshment girl " thus discourses: —The position of a bar-girl is" very odd. It is neither one thing nor another. We are dressed up like ladies; we look like ladies, but we ain't. I know we're not, because the gentlemen laugh at us, and look at each other sometimes when we say things. The young swells make love to us, but they would never marry us. Those that would marry us we wouldn't have. There's a deal of love one kind or another wasted on us bar-girls. It hurts the young men more than it does us. We get used to flatteries—we hear them all day long; but each young man thinks that he is the party that hr.3 made the impression. We are the ruin of many young men, without being able to help it. They come spooning round us, and in hanging about the bar they learn to drink. I have known a young man drink a whole bottle of brandy in uips in the course of an afternoon. lie didn't want the nips, ami only took them to have an excuse for standing at the bar and talkiug to us. I have seen many young men go to the bad this way, under my very eve 3. I have seen them drowning in liquor, as it were, ivithout having the power to rescue them ; for of course it would never do for us to refuse them drink, unless they were much the worse and noisy. The nonsense I have listened to !—the grasps of the hand I have had!—the deep-drawn sighs I have heard breathed over the pork-pies and sausage rolls! —the oceans of champagne I have seeu poured out on the shrine of our fascinations ! Poor young men, if they only kuew what fools we think them !