THE "BAR-ROOM YOUNG MAN."

Evening Star, Issue 3733, 9 February 1875, Page 3

THE "BAR-ROOM YOUNG MAN."

The fear-room young man is a genus deserving of a little notice. He is a very tine young fellow, and considers himself burn to conquer. He earns four pounds a week or thereabouts by plying the manly pen as a copying clerk, salesman, or civil servant, and spends six iu pursuit of barmaids and the cultivation of his mind. He may be seen leaning over the counter of the public-houses in the exercise of his fascinations. His insinuating and polished manners win upon barmaids to a fearful exteut. They smile upon him when he makes his appearance, and permit him the liberty, accorded to no other mortal, man, of addressing them by them Christian names. they grant him the most lavish favors, even making glad his heart by permitting him to paw their b autiful l ands when' they are not mopping spilt b : er and gin from encounter. i hey playfully retain his change, and work him up to the point of “ahouting" bad champagne. They accept little presents of jewellery from him whip the most perf- ct good-nature, and make appointments to meet, him on Sundays whicli 'hoy never keep The bar-room young man’s idea of elegance in posture is a leaning pose against a sloppy counter with a cigar in Ids mouth. Ho lias a mort 1 dread of these young women calling him mean, and to escape this imputation wid spend as much asone-and sixpence at a tim--, tossing the amount on the bar with the grand air of a capitalist to whom one-and-sixpences are nothing. Ho hasn’t an idea that instead of being a magnificent cynosure to female eyes, all his favorites laugh at him to their real sweethearts.