Now and then the "chair sweater" combines her own business with that of her employer by selling her own or other photographs to "grays." Some of these pictures are of the vilest kind, but they sell readily to the patrons of the "dive," and as the sale is effected quietly, even an honest granger now and then buys one, "just to show 'em up around the grocery." [Illustration: LAURA DON.] The variety "dive" usually closes its performance with a fiery and untamed cancan, all the people of the company joining in the dance, the men usually in the character costumes and "make-up" in which they have appeared before in their sketches or acts. [Illustration: BENEDICK AND BEATRICE. BEATRICE:--Talk with a man out of window?--a proper saying BENEDICK:--Nay but Beatrice;-- _Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV., Scene 1._ ] Then follow the orgies behind the scenes. Sometimes it is a wine supper with champagne from the bar of the house flowing so freely that the undressed divinities do not hesitate to empty bottle after bottle over their heads as if they were Roman candles, thereby giving the assemblage a shower of Mumm's Extra Dry; or perhaps they will shampoo the swelled head of one of the gentlemen. [Illustration: MATERNA.] In the wine-room, which is an adjunct of all these houses, and which is a place that affords seclusion to those who want to be out of the way of meeting friends or attracting the notice of strangers, many extraordinary exploits are to be witnessed. Plenty of drink, however, is necessary to stimulate the fun, and when the girls got an old victim into their clutches they "play" him so nicely that he believes the whole lot of them are in love with him, and every few minutes comes the cry, "Let's have another bottle," and they have it. They sit on his lap or play circus riding on his shoulders, and until the last bottle has come, and the victim has run dry of funds they keep him in good humor; then they show him the door, coldly say "Ta, ta! Baldy," and laugh heartily at his verdant innocence as he staggers away. [Illustration: THATCHER, PRIMROSE AND WEST.]