| Show M wr tn T n IA n rl x yin 0 I 1 4 gossip of people and events told 4 in Interest interesting ind manner 0 4 V V 0 elds capital consumed by women 0 EW YORK A curious person parson went N NEW to the trouble of having counted the number of people who went into tile the waldorf astoria ono one saturday recently tife tho total was at each entrance a man mail was stationed with a mechanical counter which lie ho pressed every time an anybody went in there la Is no doubt that the count Is substantially accurate it does not include the employed emp loyes entrance or tile the people who live in tho the hotel but who did not happen to go out and in that day the waldorf astoria la is only one one of new yorks big hotels it has about one fiftieth of tile the total better class hotel accommodations it if tile the same proportionate rate prevails in the other hotels there aro are people a day go to them of tho the visitors the majority were women at tho the ladles door on thirty fourth street entered and on thirty third street 2699 2599 these women must have money to spend and the time to spend pr or thoy would not bo be thronging tho the big expensive hotels they must lack moro more pressing occupation or they would be lit tending to it and not promenading peacock alley or sitting fitting in the palm room or attending club meetings iced a nd afternoon recitals besides the money that they spend at the hotel thoro there Is esthe itt to enormously gi greater cater expenditure for their apparel jewelry and millinery where does doea the money come from to pay for all this somebody must earn it somebody must work for it it must represent the surplus from some ones earnings over the expenditures of the earner still it if all the occupants of peacock alley and the palm room had to aarn earn their own living how could they do li if |
