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[RJNorton]

Thanks to Steve for sending these articles. Steve writes, "Restaurants in the 19th century in the U.S. routinely advertised "private rooms for ladies" or "private rooms for ladies and families". It wasn't a universal practice, but it wasn't a euphemism for prostitution or brothels. I tracked down the 1890 advertisement with the "private room for ladies" tag for the "Poodle Dog" restaurant (located at the same spot in Seattle where Frederick Trump's "The Dairy" would soon be) mentioned in the articles Eva cited. I also found a somewhat random assortment of restaurant ads from around the same year to compare them. There's nothing to suggest that they coyly trying to promote prostitution.

In the first decade of the 20th century there was a push generally associated with the Temperance/Prohibition movement, to ban "saloon boxes", a subset of these private rooms (or dividers), in drinking establishments.

2011 New England Quarterly article mentioning nineteenth century practice of "ladies and family rooms" in restaurants:

https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf...EQ_a_00066

(part about private rooms for ladies starts around pg. 33, but the whole article is interesting)

1906 temperance/religious crusade type book titled The Booze Cruise with a section on saloon boxes:

https://books.google.com/books?id=IUdDAA...&q&f=false

I've also attached a full copy of the letter/article printed on page 5 of the 17 April 1900 edition of the Yukon Sun which I quoted from in my earlier post. Along with a few articles about the movement to abolish "saloon boxes", I've also included an interesting article from page 5 of the 20 Feb. 1891 edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer about a knife fight at the Poodle Dog between two of its chefs. I'm guessing it was probably before Frederick Trump bought the business, so a little off topic, but still fascinating to read.