Show WOMEN'S RIGHTS BIGHTS IN HOTELS A suit Is shortly to be brought In the New York courts against a prominent hotel hotel hotel ho ho- tel for the purpose of testing one of Its rules which bars women who are without masculine efforts from Its restaurant The he suit Is to be brought by Mrs Harriet Stanton Blatch hatch a daughter of Mrs Elizabeth Elizabeth Eliza Eliza- beth Cady Stanton who like her Imer mother Is a prominent suffragist and has alwa always s 's s been to the fore in the demand for equal rights right Mrs airs Blatch with a Woman friend entered entered en en- the r garden of one of the most fashionable hotels In the metropolis and was refused sen service Ice bj by the waiter walter A complaint to the manager brought forth the information that the rule was made for the prote protection of ot respectable w women men and that as It had to be stringently en enforced en- en forced no exception could be made It was explained to Mrs Blatch that If it was not in operation she would be subject subject sub sub- to annoyance b by undesirable women In reply the lad lady stated that while she had been anno annoyed ed it had alwa always s 's been by undesirable men men- and she remarked that no effort was made to keep an undesirable undesirable able class of ot men meil me from the restaurant She contended that a woman should be allowed to satisfy her hunger when and where she pleased and has proceeded to tofee take fee steps to test the h right O of hotels to rule against women The h gs suit t tO brings r forward for for- ward an Interesting phase of equal rights There can be no doubt that there are wise and sufficient reasons for tor the enforcement enforcement enforce enforce- ment of this rule which is In operation I In ma a number of b of the New larger York w r rca res i a and that r If It were r rn n not t in operation op op- op an undesirable class would take advantage of Its absence On the other hand Mrs Blatch's contention contention con con- that In the matter of satisfying her hunger a woman should have the tho same privilege and advantages as as' as asa a man has has- fairness to recommend I It Such problems should be worked out to bring about the best st practical results and of- of of often ten a question of ot personal rights should be made subservient to the good of the greatest number Therefore It will be in In to note Just what decision will be reached b bj by the New York court when the case comes before It |