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Show WAYS OF THE WORLD. It Is not generally known that ny unprotected un-protected wonian who. through some unforeseen un-foreseen accident such as might easily occur In traveling or missing a train, shut! J llnd herself alone In New York at night would he placed In a serious predicament pre-dicament sild a matron 'It Is a ilroiiLe hut actual fact that he would not t admitted to ans hotel, although cbvloiiels a gentlewoman, and lerfectls able to pas nor was That a niHuculln strancer should be able without with-out ans trouble to niut lomfortublo accommodation ac-commodation snywhere, and a respectable woman lie iifuned shelter seems almost Incredible but until the inuch-t llkrd-of wonnns hotel becomes an actual fact It la lluralls trim thit a woman who might be obliged in stay iinfixpcctedls over night In New lork worn I not have a I lace to las In r held If she wire 111 she mlgl t he tikin lo the hospital and doubtless there are clmrltahle organic tions that noulj give her ahelter but lo acquire lhe rlkht to board nnd lodging In an ni dinar was would he Impossible, 'lint i d llcalels nurtured voing girl of looI guilil position should have to fair such a slate of iffalra if, she found i herself nccllenulls none In New York (antes belief An Incident which occurred last summer mluht hippen to any womin stuillirls llio.it rhe victim wis Miss , wh.se tainlls bad closed their house for the eummer nnd wuo sending the eon on the romt of .Milne She herself her-self had been visiting friends at Long liranih and found throuf.li some mistake on leaching New oik thit she had nilsed the last connection for the night llelng a soung woman of an Independent turn of mini, and after wiring her people that she had lcen detained, she got her dinner comrortahls at the railway restaurant restau-rant and then hailing a cab drove lo a hotel where she fiequentls had attended and given luncheon parties In the winter. To her dlMiuis and consternation however, how-ever, she was tiirtls Informed bs tho night clerk that no unaccompanied women were admitted Ttere were several men standing stand-ing about the oftlce, and. dreidlng mis 1 ubilclts she hastlls retreated and sit down In the pailor to consider the situation situa-tion hhe soon remembered In hive heard before that women were not a Imltted to hotels In New ork If thes were alone, nnd she derided thit she woull not ex-poeo ex-poeo herself lo a second refusal, hut to go somewlieie wij a nccessltj lltr flrt thought was of their own empts house, but the kess were In the charge of a burglar bur-glar proof so; let so that was Inuossltle All her frlenls were nut of town 1 Inallj. she thought of n little siumnress that the famlls had emplosed and wlinna address ad-dress she r memhered-the one l erson In nil the who! ill) thut a popul ir New ork girl Willi hosm of friend unit he. loiitiliigi.il well-known wealth) fiimlls could think of as a refuge So once more inking a ib she drovi to the dreenmi. kers who ie.it d her wlih kindness and wonder, ind gn. ui her own room lo her fu ihi nleht If nnsone told me ' sail the girl ifterwaiil In narrating her rx erleiic. e thai in m) own New orl 1 could poaii)D be mated as a pari ih and an ouu ihi I would never have he-llevwl he-llevwl hir.i -New ork Tribune. |