parlor house

There ain’t no such thing as men’s work in a parlor house.

Like she says one time, she says, ‘I’ve knew people that if they got a rag rug on the floor an’ a kewpie doll lamp on the phonograph they think they’re running a parlor house.’

Of the three grades of parlor house, the one-dollar establishment predominates in Manhattan.

In the preceding account I have aimed to give certain general characteristics of the parlor house.

Most prominent are the so-called parlor house or brothel, the tenement house apartment, the furnished room house, the disorderly hotel, and the massage parlor.