The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-11
In Moman's World.

What conclusion are we to deducs
from the repeated failure Of efforts in
New York to conduct hotels and rooming
houses exclusively for women, asks the
st. Louis Republic? More than once this
experiment has been disastrous in the
metropolis, and history Is the same even
In Chicago, where abides the most i'm
placable hostility to the male person IN
the breasts of females who are In the
forefront of the battle against the social
status quo. In strange contrast TO TINS
we present, without comment, the iaet
that in all the large centres Of clviliza'
ton there are fourishing hostelries above
the portals of which is inscribed this
warming. which can be read by whomso-
ever runs: FOL Men Only"
Only recently has been opened in New
York a huge hotel, from which is ex-
eluded every p~etticoated human being,
even the chambermaids being of the mas
culine gender. And this hotel is crowded
from the first floor to the roof every day
in the week.
With these facts in mind, the latest
project started in New York for the con-
struction of a hotel for women only Will
be watched with interest by a large class
of intelligent people. The enterprise is
in the hands of Mrs. Aston and other
rich women of the metropolis, who have
hearkened to the clamorous cry of their
less fortunate sisters for aid in the strug-
gle of making both ends meet. The pro-
jeetors are trying to raise 100000 by
selling 5000 shares of 500 each to
women.
The enterprise Iags di~scouragingly. The
plan is to erect a handsome freproof
building. which shall accommodate be-
tween 800 and 500 women in single rooms
or suites of apartments, with a restaur~
ant at low rates, where such as do not
wish to keep house can take their meals.
There are thousands of women IN. the
boarding houses of New York for whose
especial convenience this enterprise 10
being prosecuted by its misguided pro-
moters.
1t is here and now predicted that the
rule that prohibits men from crossing
the threshold will prove fatal to the en-
terprise. Twenty-Five years ago, it will
be remembered, the late A.. T. Stewart
undertook to establish a woman's hotel
on both philanthropic and commercial
grounds, but it was a failure from the
start. although the guests were allowed
to receive their gentlemen friends in the
main parlors at certain hours. Very lew
women were willing TO live in an Adam
less Eden in tina day, and it is not be-
lisyed that any considerable number OF
them are eager for the ~oportunity to Sc
gregate themselves, even in this day OF
the high tide of the new woman move
usent.
It is useless to attempt to ascribe a rea-
son for this u-nwillingness of the female
to shut herself off from agreeable asso-
cation with the male. The fact is in
dubitahly established by the most practi-
cal of tests, and there is no room for ar
gument. 1t seems, however, to prove
that the women are lust fooling" when
they shout Justify for the suppression OF
men.
A woman's ideal of herself at different
ages are interesting. The ideal OF the
sentimental, old time girl was to be the
centre of a group of admiring men, all
signing for her favor, all ready to fight
for her or commit suicide, according to
temperament, says Eliza A. Conner, in
the Newark Evening News" Aqttlelater
in life. when the old-time woman was
married. her ideal Of life was to have a
husband worshipping at her feet, provid-
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her through life on a bed of roses, she
never even having IN anxious thought
or lifting a finger. She, she herself, was
still the centre of the universe. When
the old time woman became really aged.
her ideal changed once more. She was to
sit in a corner and have her children and
grand children wait on her and make
everything easy for her. Still she herself
was the centre of everything, and all must
skip about to take care of her and make
things soft for her. This was her ideal,
still having her own foolish vanity fed.
None of the sex aver attained 1t, but 1t
fingered always in their imagination.
Idleness, luxury and having their vanity
pandered to was their idea of earthly
felicity.
Many an ignorant, romantic girl of six
teen to eighteen cherishes the sloppy, SEN
timental ideal of lovers still, being dead
sure to nave it dispelled by a lightning
stroke before long. Men are not around
worshipping girls and flying at each
others throats for them in these days
when women are so plentiful, and quite
right. they are, too. Now, the new wom-
ans ideal of life Is totally different from
that of the old woman. Instead of be-
ing waited on and petted through life and
fiatered, she considers herself as one born
to help with the worlds work. Life to
her means serious business. She is born
for some useful purpose. She is here for
what she can give to the world of good,
not for what she can get out of it. She
is here not to be ministered to, but to
minister. If she is poor or if she is
rich, she does not sit with folded hands
or5 xyh;pa oho,4f u-baf sho would dQ If