Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1888 — Women as Hotel Guests. [ARTICLE]

Women as Hotel Guests.

“Just at present, madam, we have no room that would suit you. Our vacant rooms are almost all en suite, on the lower floors of the house, and our charges for them are much more than jxm say you care to pay. Thank you for favoring us with a calL" Good afternoon.” That was the pretty speech delivered by a mild-mannered young man to a sharp-featured lady of about forty-five years, who wore corkscrew curls and bore other evidences of being an old maid of determined disposition, who was endeavoring to secure a room in an up-town hotel. As she walked away the smilling clerk turned with a weary sigh to a reporter and said: “That’s one of the lies which we have to keep in stock. ” “What is the necessity for it? Just' this, our hotel is patronized largely by men df means, who believe in getting all the good things that are to be obtained in a first-class hotel. They patronize the bar, the wine-cellar and the cigar stand. The hotel is a small one and we seldom have more than a few rooms vacant. If we should take that elderly female, whom you just saw talking to me, as a boarder we would not make any money on her, for single women of her age seldom spend any JRore money than is absolutely necessary. They ■don’t go in for luxuries. “The hotel is lighted by gas. Young or old, single or married, women are all the time curling their hair with tonges, or making a cup of fresh tea for themselves or their callers, and they are notably afraid of being alone in the dark. “The poor, lonesome dears light each and every gas jet in their rooms, turn the gas on at full pressure and let it bum that way from dusk until dawn. They are constantly ringing the bell for the bell boys and asking more questions than can be answered by reference to all the encyclopedias that have yet been published. “Of course they mean well, but, my dear fellow, some of the most infernal nuisances hotel clerks have to deal with are people who mean well. No, sir; we don’t want unmarried women of the severe age in our hotel.”— Neiv York Telegram.