No lady should stand or linger in the halls of a hotel, but pass through them quietly, never stopping alone for a moment.
No lady should stand alone at the front windows of a hotel parlor, nor may she walk out on the porch, or, indeed, any conspicuous place.
A lady is not expected to recognize her friends across the parlor or dining-room of a hotel.
No scolding of servants is permissible in a hotel. If they are negligent or disrespectful, complain to the housekeeper or landlord; it is their business to keep the domestics in order, not that of their guests.
For a lady to go up the stairs of a hotel singing is ill-bred, and may expose her to rudeness.
It is a breach of etiquette to take any newspaper, book, or music you may find in a hotel parlor to your own room, even if you return it.
Lolling or lounging in a public parlor can never be permitted to a lady.
It is a breach of etiquette for a lady to touch her baggage in a hotel after it is packed. There are plenty of servants to attend to it, and they should carry to the hack even the travelling- shawl, satchel, and railway novel. Nothing looks more awkward than to see a lady, with both hands full, stumbling up the steps of a hotel hack.
No lady must ever pass in or out at the public entrance of a hotel. There is always an entrance for ladies especially, and it is bold and unbecoming for them to be seen in the one appropriated to gentlemen. A gentleman who will escort a lady through the public entrance shows a lamentable ignorance of the usages of hotel life.