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combination by which this system has been
kept up In disregard OF tho general suffer
Con Hotel. for women succecds

tNn ttOteIs LOT w Ofutu
In admitting the failure Of the Women's
Hotel, Judge HILToS assigns reason
which. IL well founded, would shut out tho
practicability of over trying the experiment
again He says that women enough could
not be found who would agree to live apart
from men to the extent required in his no.
tel and he seems to have added the suggcs-
ton that unmarried women, even up 10 u
very mature age, are always looking out for
husbands.
II Judge HILTON Is right In this view, ho-
tells for women can never succeed but there
is not the slightest reason for surprising
that he IL right, or that his imputatons
upon women, so far as hotel life is con-
ccrned, arc not unfoundod and gratuitous.
No one can deny that the regulations OF the
Women's Hotel, regarding the visits OF men,
were just and wise. Women would bo the
last to question that Gentlemen were free
to visit them In the parlors of the house, and
60 accompany them to and from the hotel.
The only restriction was that they should
not visit the bedrooms Of the occupants.
And yet Judge HILTON filings this rcstric-
tiOn in the face Of women as something which
few Of them would submit to- 1t seems to
us quite doubtful whether he has ground to
go on, in such infcrences. IL seems to us
that he is inclined 10 generalize too hastily
against classes, especially whore hotels arc
In question Last year, he gencralized
against the Jews; this. year, 1t is against
women.
IT, then. Judge HILTON wholly mistakes
the reason Of his failure what is the real
81 l. hat hA
mems Hotel was unsuited to its purpose.
II it had been built expressly rs hotel for
men, 1t could not have been much better
adapted for them; but built and fitted up
expressly as hotel for women. 1t Is u COM
plctc mistake. And yet so distinctivcly was
1t designed TO be for women that IL almost
Extensively expressed this purpose. The
fact that it was specially constructed for
women was thrust out in its very name.
But once inside, the spectator could east
| ly see why 80 few women liked IL. They
could not make II home. The rooms were
furnished with magnificent carpets, but
with the scantiest closets and tables. On the
night of the opening there was not a foot
stool in the whole establishment. Even an
| easy chair could not be introduced into any
room without an express permit from the
proprietor. The walls all had hard finish
and not a picture could be hung In any OF
| the rooms. To woman, what is the value
| Of a Wilton carpet above pretty ingram
| for her bedroom, compared with generous
closet in place Of hole under a window
| What are the $4,000 worth Of pictures
belonging to Mrs. STEWART compared with
the photographs Of friends or the modest
little paintings of her own collection, not
allowed 10 hang ON her walls What are
the libraries for reading. il she cannot hav,
a bookcase in her own apartment for hel
favoritc volumes OF what use are expen
sive chandeliers in the halls, with no handy
| drop-light in her room? II, instead o
charging women with fear of lcssenine
their chances Of matrimony by going To hi,
hotel, Judge HILTON would inquire Of his OWL
female friends how they would relish. for tn,
only place they could call home. one littl,
marble-top table. u bureau large enough for O
| fashionable dolls clothes and row a.
hooks behind ones bed to hang clothe'
on, he might better understand why hi
hotel has failed.
We see no reason whatever for inferrnl
from the failure Of his hotel that any Other
| women npl'l must DC necessarily ih'
failure. On the contrary, there Is an urgcn
need for just what Judge lllLrON failed e
supply But the house must be built To sui
women, not to suit men; il should be ar
ranged within, furnished, and manage
under the direction Of intelligent and well
bred women. Then it may succeed TIN
prices at the Womon's Hotel We're not tn
cause Of its failure. II is true thcy made i
an impossihility for the classes for whom
was at first nominally designed; but ther
are enough others who could have pail
more to I'LL it, had it been really suited 10
women.