The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-03-28
The Stewart Hotel for Working
Women.

Baltimore American.
The rules for the government Of the
Stewart Hotel for Working Women
which opens on April ID, have been made
public, and although there are many
things in them which will result il
making the plan attractive and cOnduce
10 the comfort Of the inmates, yet there
are others again which even the observer
who il not captions might legitimately
cri,icise. Although it is evident from
the prices which are to be charged for
board and lodging that the projectors
have had no philanthropic object in view
10 ia establishment, yet tits difficult 10
understand what their intention in found
ing IL has been. The hotel, they claim, will
only be able to pay It's running expenses
and the capital sunk in It will, therefore
be dead money. Wouldit not have been
a generous act on their part to have ar.
ranged matters 80 that those who most
need On institution OF this kind could
have syailed themselves oil It? As
II at present atands only women who
can afford to live comfortably and
have something TO spare will be-
come its inmates, while the wants Of the
great community Of hard working, IN.
dernaid girls will not be alleviated in the
slightest degree. Still, every one,we sup
pose, has the right TO do with his money
what be pleases, without taking into con
alteration the abstract principles oi
charity and beneyolence. There are
however, certain rules 10 which boarderi
will have to submit that must prove Oh
noxious to them, considering their sex
To use an English term applied to female
tomestics, mo followers will be allow.
ed.n The brilliant paslors, with their
chandeliers, pianos and gorgeous uphol-
stery, will never be iesecra.ed by the
presence Of the tyrant man. The doors
Of The hotel will be firmly closed agains,
him, and he must content himself with
standing outside, like the disconsolate
Peri at The gates OF Paradise, and ilnag-
lining the happiness that reigns within
Another rule reads that "No dogs, cats,
birds or pet animals Of any kind will be
allowed in the hotel" Now, it
IL safe 10 presume tuat amongst
the inmates will be some Of that
class commonly known s "old
maids" How will they pass the hours
not devoted to gossip and scandal without
either a cat or a parrot? Nay, even young
women must have something TO love, and
pet canary would help TO cheer them in
their Loneliness. Athird rule prescribes
that "No sewing machines nor any work.
ing apparatus or extra furniture will be
allowed in the rooms.p According to this
there will be no flowers, no birds, no cats,
NO men, and nothing which might enable
the inmates to probably employ them.
selyes during their leisure hours, For the
very character OF those who will be ad-
mitted argues that they will have leisure,
Only artistic, well.paid employees in stores
and warehouses, and school and music
teachers can afford to purchase the beue-
FITS Of the home. And even with the Il.
brary, the fountains and the piano, the
fact that they are debarred from doing
certain things will, In view Of proVerbial
female peryersity, incline them towards
performing them, and make their spare
moments tedious and uncomfortable.