, 1871-06-20
The Lone woman's Bed and Board,

iron wall on Fourth Avenue, between
thirty-second and thirty>third streets, al
ready appear like the Bride in SolOmon's
Song-"black but comely." 1t is not q
dry goods store, nor a Hampstead rail-
road depot, nor a Public Library, nor an
Irish Presbyterian Church, but a Hotel
for Women. Such an institution ought
not TO exist
Are there churches for women? Are
there P6stofices for womens Are there
public parks for womeni Are there ocean
steamers for women? Why, then, should
there be hotels for wOmenl We know no
other reason than the "hardness of mems
hearts" Mr.. Stewards stately inn is a
partial protest against the deficient, in
complete dwarfed morality Of the time.
During a few unenlightened and bigoted
years, we shall have hotels for women,
Just as we have colleges for women. But
a hotel or college for one exclusive sex is
abnormal.
at is not good" said the wise proverb.
"for man to be Alone" Neither is it
good for woman. 1t iS the order of Ma
ture that men and women should worship
together, work together, study together,
Journey together, and, generally, to dwell
together. If Harvard University were
an institution of learning, instead of
monument of prejudice if Yale had the
least glimmer of the equal rights of men
and women; both these institutions, like
the better spirited colleges of the West,
would throw open their doors equally to
both sexes. The University Of Michigan,
and dozen other Western institutions do
this-greatly to their praise.
What would be thought Of church
which should close its doors against wo-
men? And what ought to be thought of
hotel for doing the same things A wO-
man, unattended and alone, goes to first
class hotel, and the chances are that she
will be sefused admittance. There is a
suspicion attaching to her character. She
may be ''as pure as ice, a. chaste as
snow," and yet she ''shall not escape cal
umny." She is excluded on the bare pos
Sibility that she has a damaged Teputa-
ton. But what if she has. Must she
sleep on the street in consequence of it i!
Suppose man has damaged reputation.
Does anybody deny him admission to a
hotel on that account Does the Metro
politan, or the Fifth Avenue, or the Con-
tinental, or the Arlington, or the ST..
Charles ever think of questioning a mas
culine guest as to whether he has kept or
lost his virtues But do these same hotels
ever fail to put the same question as to
the character of feminine guest who
comes alone to seek a lodging If there
is any different law Of morality for women
than for men, we are ignorant Of it. If a
man is entitled, whether cbaste or not, to
q nights lodging at hotel, why should
not a woman, whether chaste or not, be
equally entitled to just such an accommo-
dation2 1t is not a sufficient answer to
say that the custom is against it; the
custom is damnably unequal, and ought to
be repealed.
Mr.. Stewart is doing something to
repeal it. He may not be working from
such a motive, but his work tends never
theless to this end. He is building ho-
tel for women-an institution which, in a
few years after it gets into operation, will
open alt other hotels to women. This is
its chief prospective value in our eyes.
Not that we undeIrate it as temporary,
practical. beautiful piece of philanthropy
and one which is none the less public
spirited because it will be self supporting.
But the moral significance of Mr.. Stew
arts experiment will consist in the-fac
that after he has once made it just as re-
putable for a woman to go to hotel as to
dry goods store, every hotel will invite
woman to be a guest, just as every dry
goods store invites her 10 be purchaser.
Doc. Simmons, the engineer who was
killed on his train, had an intelligent rea-
son for sticking to his engine. Perceiving
: that the train could not be checked in
time to avoid collision, he threw open
the throttle, hoping 20 dash through the
distractions. Had he been able 10 do
this, and had he leaped from the engine,
the train would have sped on its way at a
tremendous speed, without an engineer to
control it. He therefore had reason for
staying at his post, and he knowingly
risked and lost bis life in the hope of saw
in the lives Of his passengers. A grateful
public, in appreciation Of his herOism, has
subscribed $3.50 for his widow. We for>
get precisely how much was subscribed
the other day to erect a statue to Mr.,
Tweed.-GoLdea Age.
There is story of Chinese thief who,
having pilfered missionary's watch, car
ried it back to him few days afterward
to show him how to wind it up; which is
like the wistful, yearning, anxious way in
which Mr.. Cameron looks to Mr.. Sumner
to know how to act as Chairman Of the