The Archive · 1940

Drink Trade Busy

The west German newspapers, reflecting the increasing tendency to seek relief from war strain in alcohol, daily publish dozens of advertisements for "bar ladies" and "table ladies."

"Bar ladies" are not barmaids as we know them in England, but women whose chief attribute is a good figure and good clothes, and their job is to encourage people to drink.

"Table ladies" are on the cusiomers side of the bar and their job is to entertain those who sit at the tables or dance with them—and get them to drink.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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