Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1853-12-21
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Hotel Bcsfes.

The following admirable editorial, we copy
from the PailadeipA,a Pablic xfdger We agree
iuopinon precisely with the gentleman whe
has called our attention TO this matter, aud
think that the force and proprls'y Of snch 70
/ parks nssti s~-~a~Assps aaler.
sfaad and value domestic hapfsness. Sin
cerely trust, concludes our valued friend, 'tha,
the sentiments conveyed may prove salutary,
by promoting social reform. II should be re.
membered by the other sex, that there is a
beauty which seeks not the public gaze, and
that there ave virtues content to slime a. hcme.
There is growing disposition ON The part
OF certain portion of our fashionable people,
to spend considerable part of their days of
leisure at hotels. In the summer months, the
hotels at Saratoga and Newport are resorted
10 as the burning points of the fashionable o
world, and in winter, Washington comes in for
share OF the dissipations Of the same or a
similar class of society. In addition to this,
there are persons, married and single, who
prefer life in fashionable hotel to the sol
id comforts of home; partly from erroneous
notions of economy. and partly because house.
keeping is connected with certain inconveni.
ences, in the shape Of supervision of labor from
which boarding affords comparative relief -
We decidedly object to the taste Of a married
woman, who can be better satisfied in a hotel
fully substitute a public life for private one d
the hustle of public drawing-room for the re.
tiremens OF home with Ler husband and chill.
dren. We think that hotel life il the very
grave of conjugal tenderness and affection.
and feel assured that properly constituted
woman. in any sphere of life. will submit to it
only temporarily and from necessity. We
would as readily believe that flowers can bios.
som without dew or sunshine, as that delicacy
Of sentiment, and sound morals, can be culti-
waited without retirement aud the undisturbed
play OF the affections in the family circle
round the domestic hearth. A woman who
can find pleasure and happiness away from
her own fireside, has already lost the greatest
charm OF her sex, and is sure to become, in the
end, burthen to herself and her husband -
But there is class of ladies, longing for the
distinction of being considered bellies of par
ticalar fashionable hotels, and admired us such,
not only by their acquaiptances buL by stran
gers. This assuIedly is in wretched bad taste
and as vulgar as it is wfetched. The idea of
dressing all the time for strange company.
and endeavoring to please whom you do not
care for, admitting everyb ody into your society
who can afford to live in the same house, and
be observed, criticised, and perhaps sandered
by persons you take no notice of, because they
are beneath your notice, is enough to make
any rational woman who has been more than
year out of boarding school, detest life 10
public house. be it ten times as gorgeously
ly furnished as 81. Nicholas or the Prescott
We say nothing Of the Irritation galleries
whispering rooms and bridal chambers
which are usually exhibited in the hotels with
so much pomp and vulgar significance, We
have no fancy for courtshlp under chandelier.
A woman Of true delicacy and refinement will
neither exhibit her charms, nor her graces nor
her accomplishments to the public. Exelu,
siveness is the very essence of ladies' society,
as domestic retirement Is the very soilin which
grows every female virtue. The most poeti
cal beauty of a woman, is the blush on her
cheeks; the hotel belle has usually but one
color; and that not always her own. IT man
wants to know what sort Of feeling belle Of
the genus we have described. inspires him
with, let him put the question to his heart;
how would l like TO have that woman for a
wife? and he will have no difficulty in under.
standing Observation-Disclosures Gaz