Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-12

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! uation in life requires them to travel I'M
accompanied had adopted the scheme them
selves and of their own volition.
These were women who having had ex-
perience with New York hotels in their at
| titude toward women. adopted the sensi-
| BILE and practicable. II somewhat humiliat-
| ing, plan of forwarding irreproachable bank
or other business references in informing
| New York hotel people they would be APP
| plying for accommodation at a specified
| time. The idea struck the hotel proprietors
who had suffered a good deal owing to the
pranks of irresponsible women as such a
good one that they have lately got together
and formulated the scheme into an IRON
clad rule.
| They have bound themselves not to admit
as guest of their hoStelries any woman
who does not In advance of her unaccom-
panied arrival send on these references.
Furthermore, they actually look up the ref
erences. If the prospective woman guest 8
references are from her own city or town OF
| residence, the hotel people wire or write to
the persons named in the references. If the
| forwarded references name New York in
dividuals or institutions. each hotel has
now employed a man called a reference
clerk to look them up and verify them.
The whole idea might. at first sight. seem
an Injustice to and a reflection upon the
sex. But the New York hotel men who are
invited to express their views upon this
point merely suggest to the inviter that he
read the New York papers for month or
so and tell them at the end of that time If
he doesn't believe they are justified in franz
ing up such a rule.
Easter Parade a Freeze-out.
In 50 far as there was any so-called 18th
avenue Easter parade at all last Sunday
and there wasn't much of one-the pa
re ders were a frozen-Iookirg lot, the men
in their wind-tossed frock coats. as well as
the suffering seeming women in their fluffy
and unsea soflable forgery. Easter Sunday
q
York has had since early in January. 1t
was distinctly day for listers the
backs of men and furs on the backs of
women.
A somewhat thin crowd of church-goers.
none of them of the genuine haut ton, dis
regarded the state of the weather, however,
and traipsed up and down 5th avenue ex-
hibiting new things to wear that may. per-
haps. look pretty good and all well enough
along about the first of June-it never
warns up over here before then-but that
looked simply ridiculous with a marrow
chilling wind sweeping the line of march
and making the imitation chappies' noses
blue aud the girls eyes watery.
1t Is stated that the medical persons had
ence. thing which is quite believable. At
least ten years have passed since the real
nobs' Of New York have turned out In
genuine Easter parade.
When the thing became so painfully COM
mon, back In the early nineties. that the
sure-enough toffs found themselves mee.-
ing up. all along the 9Th avenue line of pa
rade, with their servants, accompanied by
their sweethearts. and all gorgeously ap-
pareled in the gladdest of glad rags, the
Easter parade was doomed. and it was
abandoned by common consent OF the hon.
eSt-InJuh great ones. OF late years the Wo-
men of New York society go to church in
plain tailor suits. and In their carriages, on
Easter Sunday. and then make haste, after
the services. to regain their homes, lest
they be accused, later, of having participat-
ed in so cheap an affair as the alleged Eas-
ter parade has come to be considered. And
they have the coachmen take the side
streets; too, In regaining their homes The
men simply sit in the windows of their
clubs and take in the passing show of am
bilious young frock-coated stenographers
and stenoprapheresses. but they do not per-
nit themselves to become a part of it.
Nevertheless, the yellow Sunday Moo
4awk papes go right on from year to year
presenting ornate and highly colored dou-
ble-page illustrations" of the 9Th avenue
Easter Sunday parade, lacking the heads of
notable society persons to their tremendous
iy dressed lay figures. and "wOrking-up' in
the context elaborate descriptions of
dead-and-gone custom that was out of date
century.
The real Easter parade in New York is
down OF Grand street where the young
fellers wear rented frock coats in conjunc-
around their necks, and where one girl will
wear fourteen different shades of green or
red or yellow without blink of seIf-con-
sciousness!
Circus Advertising Feature.
Tody Hamilton. the most marvellous and
melliffuous of all circus press agents seems
to have queer Partially for Austria and
the cabinet thereof in the framing up of his
amiable rain-making narratives. Tody is
now out with quite an appealing story of
a young woman who is doing equestrian
stunt with the greatest of all shows.
She is a pretty girl, all right enough, but
Mr. Hamilton solemnly places his hand
upon his heart and declares that she is the
enormously wealthy daughter of the gigan-
ticaliy wealthy minister of something or
other in the cabinet of Austria. He says
that she doesn't have to circus it at all,
but that she is only travelling around with
the show and incidentally exhibiting her
marvellous equestrianism, for the purpose
of getting material for book about us
Now it may be that in the multifarous-
ness of his labors and the multiplicity of his
duties, Mr.. Hamilton has forgotten that he
worked this Austrian cabinet thing at least
once before. He sprang it in Chicago about
twelve years ago. when the greatest of all
shows was exhibiting in that hopeless
town Mr. Hamilton wrote-and actually
had printed-a page story about a duel
which he alleged to have taken place be-
meath the main tent between n 'rich young
southerner. who was following the show
and paying court to trapeze girl, and one
making his addresses to the young woman
of the flying trapeze.
The story went on to describe the duel
with rapiers in great detail and wound up
by declaring that the bareback rider was a
son of Baron Kalnoky, the prime minister
of Austria, the son having renowned his
title and all that sort of thing out of his
love for the common people, etc, etc. The
story went through with a cIatter until a
resume of it was cabled to Austria when
word promptly came back from that coun-
try that Baron Kalnoky not only had no
son In the bareback riding business. but
that the estimable prime minister of Aus
tria was confirmed and hopeless bachelor
Austria isn't the only European country
that has prime minister, and Mr. Ham,
ltons friends are beginning to express the
fear that the most glowing of all press
agents is beginning to slump some under
the Strain or trying to remember all of the
marvellous tales that he has been unfolding
during the past thirty or forty or fifty
years. n r