Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-20

a Scent ferry ticket across the stream
whose waters are ploughed by the beautiful
white steam yachts. The Wall street owner
OF the yacht steps on board the vessel. gen.
orally quite alone. at half-past eight In
the morning. say. from his country house
pier.
A breakfast as Is a breakfast awaits him.
steaming. in the rose-tinted breakfast
room. or. IL the skies be clear. aft. under
a Rcman-striped awning. The yacht gets
swiftly under way. with her prov pointing
toward New York, while the owner OF the
yacht begins his breakfast In comfortable
solitary grandeur The run to the private
New York slip takes from an hour to two
hours. generally the former. for the steam
yachts OF these waters are mostly twenty
knotters nowadays. All hands OF the crew
ashore. A coupe from his New York stables
awaits him on the dock. He steps Into 1t,
and is whirled away to his office In the
financial district.
Perfect Appointments.
At half after 2 or In the afternoon.
when he Is through with business for the
day he Is conveyed down to his private
dock again in his coupe or automobile. and
generally finds q number OF invited guests,
men and women. waiting for him there.
They go aboard. and find the elaborate
luncheon ready to be served.
Inc yacht steams down the bay as far
as the owner and his guests elect to go.
ana then her nose Is pointed toward the
country place. arriving there as a rule at
the dinner hour. At an expense OF from
5000 to $4,000 a month the white yacht
Is kept In commission primarily for the
purpose OF conveying the owner to and
from his office. distance of from fifteen to
twenty miles.
And the struggling. salaried man. taking
his humble Scent ferry ride. and watching
the stately parade. morning and afternoon,
ef the beautiful white yachts thus en-
ployed. thoughtfully scratches his head,
and. musing upon the difficulties he encoun-
ters In just getting along" murmurs to
What's the user
At the Women's Hotel.
Does the Introduction OF male walters at
New York's women's hotel presase the
eventual opening of the doors of that ex-
clusively feminine hotel to male guests?
Maybe. 1t is an entering wedge, anyhow.
and the women guests are more than salts
ned with IT. What is more. they demanded
IT, They didn't like the girl walters at all
said they were ''snippy" and "talky," and
slovenly and perky. and many other things
with various shades Of meaning.
AT the outset the women projectors OF the
womens Motel were going to run the whole
outht. from dynamo compartment to dining
ROOM without any trousered creature-no
not even one-from cellar to garrett Diff
cultfes. however, arose to puncture this
plan. No eligible stationary engineers and
electricians OF the female persuasion were
ready to jump into the breach-the pun is
Involuntary and unintentional. It was ap-
pretended. likewise. that 1t would not be
altogether easy to obtain the services of
young lady coal beavers, machinery oilers
garbage regulators and so on. These hum
PIE, put important. positions. consequently.
had to be filled by coarse male bipeds who
were vigorously kept at their stations, how
ever. and out Of view.
Women Ruled the Houss.
Women did all the rest Manageress,
clerkesses night clerkesses bootblacks who
were perfec' lydies. Mattresses scullions
cooks. fre-makers. laundresses chamber
maids. bell girls-all killed persons. Men
who called to see the women guests were
conducted into tiny. bare reception room
In an obscure corner of the hotel, although
the hotel is rich In handsomely furnished
reception rooms.
Everything went beautiful for a while
until. one day. man who called to see one
OF the woman guests had the unbounded
temer1ty to forget to throw his cigar away
when he entered the tiny reception room
whittier he was conducted by the bell girl
Thereupon some Of the ancient women
guests OF the rubbering persuasion set up
an uproar. declaring that the fumes of the
mans cigar. away of in that corner of
the hotel. made them Ill. II only by ocular
suggestion, they having seen the man with
the cigar in his hand.
When the Storm Broke.
Then the storm broke. The great major
ity Of the women guests UP and declared
that they liked the smell OF cigar smoke
that 1t was homelike aud cozy-that IT was
pleasant to feel after all. that there was a
man around. occasionally-so there, nowI
Then these insurgents began to kick about
the girl walters and to demand that trous-
cred walters be installed in their places.
body. Their demand was met by the man.
agement Bell boys are soon to displace
the bell girls. and even money IL being
freely offered by hotel men around town
that 1t will be a matter OF only a little
while now before the womens hotel will
be throwing open its doors to masculine
guests.
How do you like your hotel?" this writ
er not long ago inquired of a clever busl-
ness woman who took advantage of the.
cleanliness. reasonableness and luxurious
ness OF the women's hotel and became one
Of the charter guests.
oh It is all right" she replied. not en-
Enthusiastically. "only it is so violently wat
cry and talcummy powdery-and-and-
sometimes feel as IL ] am living in the
House of the Good Shepherd or the Gate of
Hope!
Tattoo Your Dog Now.
Have you coat-of-arms? Then, to be
en- regle. as 1t were. you must have the
same tattooed on your dog That's what
the real. honest-Injun tofrs of New York
are doing now. The dogs. which are of
the short-haired species fox terriers, bull
terriers and the like, wearing the tattooed
coats-of-arms on their sides, look disgust
ed and foolish but what's the user
The tattooed dog wearing the family coat
of-arms indelibly needed into his hide Is
the fad OF the hour. and the likes or DIS
likes OF the dogs. themselves are, Of course.
not to b6 considered rff
does the work on the canine cuticles, and
he gets $50 per Job for his labors. What
q glad community little old New York Ia
getting to be! G. /. c.
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