Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1905 — A Women’s Waiting Room. [ARTICLE]

A Women’s Waiting Room.

The two rooms in the lower story or the court house, set aside long ago for the exclusive use of women and children, are at last fitted up for the purpose and will be strictly reserved for them. The County Council made a liberal appropriation, last September to fuinish the rooms, and the commissioners made the necessary order. The details of the work were turned over to the capable and faithful hands of Janitor Morlan, but in selecting the carpets and furniture he had tlie assistance o t, Mrs. Reynolds and Mrs. Martindale. There are two rooms, and they are directly across the hall from the women’s toilet , rooms. One room is large aud this is the sitting or waiting room, proper, and is nicely carpeted, has plenty of easy

chairs, lounge, table etc. The smaller room is provided wif li water works and a neat marble wash stand, a dr<»sser, large looking glass, etc., for afl of which the ladies will find a ready use, without further explanation. It is also in tended that those who wish can eat their lunches in this smaller room, itl»eingtho intention to keep the front room free from the litter that lunch eating necessarily produces*. It is also, it is needless to add, the intention to hereafter rigidly exclude from these rooms all such uses as politir.il cauenssea, justice’s f trials etc. I n fact they are henceforth to be st i ctly aud exclusively, what their names' implies, the man’s room'.