Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1893 — American Women and Hotels. [ARTICLE]

American Women and Hotels.

Pittsburg Dispatch. The swellest-looking women can be seen about the Fifth Avenue Hotel every day. They are guests of the house and come from various cities throughout the union. It used to be that American women were chary about being seen about the hotel corridors frequented by. guests and loungers of the male sex, but this is all chanegd. note that these women bear the stamp of the cosmopolite. They have the air of women of the world, who are not afraid of the world and who are rather glad that they are in it. The matrons have a charmingly “comfortable, look between fashion and benevolence, of thesortof people whose position in the great game of life is assured. The young women are comely to look upon as a rule, and are oftencr downright handsome than downright plain. It is pleasing to the eye that they dress, for the most part, with excellent taste, being given to plain, well-fitting traveling, street and carriage gowns, and in this respect form an agreeable contrast to the American women of twenty years ago. When I see them hovering around the post office end of the office counter, or at the bookstall, or in front of the hotel theater ticket desk, I recall the similar knots of stylish femininity one meets about the office of the continental hotels. The American woman is known abroad for her independence of character and her ability and willingness to look after herself, as well as for her fine figure and facial beauty. In the big New York hotels you will see the same fine types, doing the same thing in the same quietly effective lady-like manner. At the Windsor, Brunswick, Savoy, Holland, Murray Hill and other swell modern hotels that partake of the continental type you will always see these woll-bred and attractive women about the ground floor, lending a charm to New York life but a few years ago unknown.