The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-22
RTHELONBWOMAN WOUIDEAf
SIZE MUST GET AN ESCORT on
BROADWAY AFTER 8 O'CLOCK.

that's the Rule I'm Many Restsursnts. and
Very Angry IL Makes Respectabie
.victims-Symposium OF Experiences
or Three Women VINO Had Tried IL.
Il know that restaurants and hotels
have to be strict she told the other women.
sbut there Is such a thing a. discretion:
And she told this story ~
She went to an eminently respectable
Broadway restaurant early the other even-
ing with her husband. Both sho and
her husband are as respectable as the res-
taurant, and they look so, az their friends
will testify. II was only few minutes after
S O'Clock when they reached the door.
Then her husband remembered that he had
forgotten to deliver a message to q friend
who has an Office q couple Of blocks away.
He thought of 1t az he stepped INSIDE tn
door, and mentioned 1t TO her.
Il guess I'll 60 and see that fellow rishs
away" he said. you order this dinner
and by the time it's on the table III b
back
He went out and she walked to . table
and sat down. But she had hardly reached
her chair when the head waiter went up
to her.
Il am very sorry, Miss he said. but 10
will be impossible for you TO get meal
here. 1t is against our rule to serve any
ladies' after s O'Clock unless they are at
tended by men. You see. we have To-
why" she said, what do you meanf
Ny husband has just gone up the street
moment on an GRAND. want to order
dinner 80 as to save time. He'll be bach
before II is served
yes, that ia very WE'LL said the man.
but We don't know anything about that;
L., ha NhQru
the place, don't you know. - ~
Yes, 1 see, said she, and she walked out
and waited near the door for her husband.
Then she left dealing with the restaurants
that his treatment Of the subject was vigors.
And I'm mighty glad too she said.
But didn't I cry, thought? :.
in the s'a group az f II. Wasn't quite 80 bad,
although goodness knows that Thoughts
at the time that nothing could be worse. =
being a single woman, I didn't have .
husband. In fact. ! didn't even have .
man escort. II was on a Sunday after
noon and had been at an afternoon SER
vice at one OF the churches In Fifth avenue
with another girl. When ! got out We
felt famished and the thought OF board
ing house supper Of the Sunday night sore
made me set my face against going clear
over to Brooklyn without anything TO eat;
so we went into q restaurant where had
taken luncheon.
.The waiter said Just about the same
thing to US, and you can imagine how horTi-
fled we felt. But we swallowed our pride
and instead Of crying, az we felt like doing,
we laughed II of and went to another
restaurant, There they don't demand
male escorts after o'clock,
The third woman had had her experience.
too. She II a schoolteacher and the school,
room has made her used to crises.
Il had somewhat the same experience,
she said. Il got into one of those places
and was very hungry. The waiter told me
that ! couldn't be served because l didn't
have a man with me.
-'Oh, that Ii your rule. Is itT I asked.
evil any sort Of man do| n
eyes, :. said he.
Il went right out Of that restauranf, and
walked over to the nearest A. ID. T. mes
senger office. There i hired for one hour,
a boy who was glad to ait opposite me at
the table and eat dinner for which paid,
90 as to be my escort. He was the teeniest.
tinieet ,httle bit Of a boy ever saw out OF
knickerbockers. IN my life. but he did have
on long -tro1seas and therefore he waS;a
man. - sN
Il never had more fun at dinner than
did with that dear little chap. He sat thery
and talked in his queer language until
my sides fairly ached With laughter. and
the restaurant people never even objected
to my escort. "a
But asked the schoolteacher, why
don't some restaurant people have sense!'
And thu, other women said 80 too