Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1890 — Pretty Girls in Cages. [ARTICLE]

Pretty Girls in Cages.

One of the pretty sights in the Treasury is fifteen or twenty handsome ladies in cages. Pretty women are not so scarce in the department that when they get hold of one they put her in a cage, but the ladies referred to occupy their littl* prisons in accordance with an old custom. The Comptroller of the Currency has decided to revive a system in vogue some years ago by putting a safeguard around the counters of money and isolating them in little iron cages. They are put in their prisons in the morning, large piles of notes are given them, and there they sit all day long counting the currency as fast as their fingers can move. The only communication the ladies have with any one outside of their cages is through a speaking tube connecting them w'ith the Chief of the Bureau. The ladies, nkturallv, don’t take to this arrangement very kindly.—Pittsburg Commercial’s Washington letter.

Why not pour the drink into the gutter? It is destined to the gutter at last. Why not pour it there at once, and not wait to strain it through a man, and spoil the strainer in the work?