Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-12
GGTNHE problem of living will be the
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"catch ALL" sketch book, vanity bag
and gave her pompadour a vicious lit
tie tilt.
Every fall when I come back to
town it's the same old story-'Where
shall l live? How shall | live? oh,
for the irresponsibility of a peacock,
bird of paradise, lily of the field, my
lady's lap dog-any old thing that
has shelter and living provided with
out personal solictude! I have sam
pied every phase of housing known to
detached women, from hall bedrooms in
exclusive mediocre boarding houses to
the partment on the cooperative plan,
from the tower of an office building
to a cupboard in a college settlement;
dined en- famille and hunted, like dog
Tray, bone from high priced restaur-
ants or dairy kitchens to vegetarian
joints-in short, everything in lodging
and eating line possible to a foolhardy
bachelor girl, until the loneliness the
misery of it ALL has become appalling"
why not marry?'
Cant afford It. Most of my married
friends support their husbands. Haven't
come to that yet, but suppose I'll get
there in time"
Ever try woman's hotel?"
''Tried and been tried" chuckled the
disgruntled bachelor girl, land fat
tened in the process"
Meal in American dining room or
cafe?"
Neither! Miracle of flesh is impos-
sible to either"
"1ow did you live, them"
ION laughter" smiled the bachelor
girl. Simple, unadulterated laughter"
'I thought women had no sense of
humor."
There's where the laugh came in.
See?"
The back to town girl gathered up
fra and her. N ioiDe5
the laugh at the expense Of that wit
less, humorless kind with which an inn
aginative public peoples a woman's
hotel.
Why womans hotel should pique
mans curiosity tickle his risible and
evoke an equivocal smile from the
choice feminine coterie credited with
that rare gift in women-humor-is
one of the anomalies of metropolitan
life.
From time immemorial women have
lived together in small or large num-
bers without mans protection, asso-
citation or support.
Catching Its Humor
Let doubling cynics loiter a spell in
the lobby of a woman's hotel, enroll
as understudy to the room clerk or
keep store" a day at it's news stand.
Allowing for all the known foibles and
idosyncrasies of the weaker vessel"
which housing by the hundred under
the same roof naturally brings to the
surface in exaggerated relief, there are
few things in womanS hotel so hui
morous or ineXplicabe as mere mans
attitude toward it once he crosses the
threshold.
Some men have their preconceived
prejudices dispelled after a single Wis
1T, while never wholly recovering from
embarrassment on entering it, Others,
hnnt hnino Of tI,a
OF women who have the audacty to be
independent of them. sustain the trend
of the press, from which their knowI-
edge has been acquired and accept a
woman's hotel as did DIR. Johnson her
ability to write:-"Like dogs who learn
to dance on their hind legs The Won
der is not that they do it so WELL but
that they can do it at ALL"
rs this a woman's home?"
They were three timid female trav-
elers.
"A womans hotel" corrected the
clerk.
Then why are there so many men
here?'
For the very reason that it is a
woman's hotel" smiled the Prince of
Taffy Givers
The truth is, as many men are to be
met in woman's hotel at the proper
time and under the proper conditions
Il am overpowered by it's prepon
derance of feminine atmosphere" re-
marked gay bird of woman who
speaks for thousands. Every time |
visit 1t, 1t makes me long to be star
boarder at a Mills hotel"
If there is a boarding house apart
ment house or hotel in Gotham, Mills
excepted, where women do not out
number men, it is unknown to an av
erage observer of how the other half
lives. The radical difference. If any.
in the number and type of woman met
IN general hotels and that of a wo-
mans exclusive hostlery is in woman's
attitude toward the men she encount-
ers there and who take to her pres
ence as naturally as to ice water or
cocktail. Women in mixed" hotels
dress and strut with the air and the
assurance that invite and expect mas
culine admiration, while their sisters
In the exclusive woman hotel expect
ancy OF masculine admiration or at
tention is a side rather than a con-
trolling motive in the making of a
toilet and the exhibition of the same.
Never Understood
1t is in the public misconception of
woman's hotel that often lies half
it's humor
Sorry I cannot accommodate YOU.
sir. But / can give the lady a room"
Loaded with shawl straps and golf
bags, he had hustled in with the lady
in the case in close pursuit Thinking
he meant to register for her, the clerk
turned the book to the youth, who
wrote with the audacious flourish of
new possession, John Strong and
wife"
Room for the lady and none for
me? What do you mean?" he demand
ed.
1--WE do not accommodate men," was
the reply "This is a woman's hotel
have room for the lady, but none
for YOU"
"Do you mean you would separate
us?" he gasped.
Looks like it,"
"My God, man, / just got herl" and,
grabbing luggage and bride, he made
rapid transit to the street
where's the barber shop? Want a
shave. In big hurry to catch a
train"
Into the hand of the ministerial door