The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-03-03
Modern Woman
Change of Heart Among Hotel
Keepers In the Past Dozen Years.
Lone Women Travellers No
Longer Turned Away.

a writer calls attention To the
changed attitude OF city hotel keepers
toward women travelling alone. Time
was, not so very long ago either, when
if woman arrived in New York city
late at night the chances were that the
police station house was her only shell
ter. a majority of the hotel propri
etors were SO full of ignorant, brutal
prejudice that, no matter what Ii wOm-
ans credentials were. no matter how
much money she had, they would not
admit her unless she had a man with
her. She might be running away with
another wonlan's husband, for that
matter, and it did not matter to them.
The man along was the thing. \ hap
Ply change has passed over their dark
ened understanding. 1t is woman who
has made the modern hotel the beau
tiful and artistic creation it is: also.
one must admit, the expensive luxury
it is. For woman not man. are the
splendid dressing rooms, the gorgeous
dining rooms. high art tapestries, rugs
and draperies. The more splendid
these accessories of living are the more
rich women they bring to hosiery,
and the more a place is patronized by
gorgeouSly gowned women the more
men will he drawn thither to look at
them. See? Through the thick skulls
of hotel keepers it finally percolated
that it would be money in their peck
cts TO cater to women travellers. Amer
lean women constitute the leisure class
Of the country. Rich women here trav-
ell more than their husbands do and
demand their home luxury wherever
they go. They get it in all cases-by
paying for it. The brightness. beauty
and attractiveness the American wom-
an traveller have brought to her home
hotels she has also added to European
hostelrieS. Over the water. too, the
woman traveller is now specially ca
tered TO. The fashionable and i'm
mensely popular tea room is 2 direct
outgrowth of the new woman move
ment.
The woman who had idiopathic null
tiple hemGrrhagic sarcoma and got
over it had strong constitution
The other morning coming downtown
in New York city subway train
pretty girl took the vacant seat beside
me- She had wonderfully long. dark
curling eyelashes. so much so as to be
at once noticeable, and-she sat with
her eyes closed all the way down
An artist, a man, of course, recently
copied for newspaper illustration Il pic
ture of Joan of Arc, and underneath it
he inscribed ready for the engraver the
maids name thus: Joan of Ark
"A boys best friend is his mother,
but his pepper pays the bills, lately
heard man say jokingly to some Of
his men chums. Fitting comment the
Testing words were on the shaInefuNI
dependent financial condition of mar
ried women. Every housekeeper and
mother of a family ought to have Il
fixed salary paid to her for her services
rs Regularly as her husband gets his
wages. AS it is in this present lncivi-
lied time, no matter how noble and
good a mother is, no matter though
she is the salvation of her family
morally, intellectually and oftentimes
even financially, she is accounted no
body in the worlds sight because pop
per pays the bills" 1t is disgraceful.
ones finger nails in Il street car before
all the folk than never to manicure
them at all:
4 Chicago woman asks, What is the
use of husband when IA woman has
plenty Of money" To which the New
York Herald replies, He can spend it,
You know
In his lecture on Panama and the
West Indies John Floyd Hume says he
and Mrs. Hume got up before day
break one morning in Jamaica to take
Il trolley ride up mountain near King
ston to see the sunrise They noticed
4 peculiar looking tree growing along
side the track, and Mr.. Hume asked
the motorman, negro, what its name
was. THAT tree, sah'' answered the
motorman, has great long pods grow
ing On it. you see. Well. by and by the
pods dries, and they has things like
beans inside Of 'em, and they ratties
in the wind and makes big noise, and
the tree gets its name from these pods
They calls it 'women's tongues, sah.''
The portraits of the most beautiful
women in America are to be seen
where do you suppose? On tomato can
labels and other advertising pictures
The most beautiful women in America
are by no means to be found among
the rich society girls. They are among
the daughters of the people, nice girls
who usually have to earn their own
living. Their faces are their fortunes,