New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-02-26
woRKINGwoMENs HOMES.

To the Editor or me frtOhNc
SIR: The subject of workingwomens board
inghouses is already attracting public attention and
few phanthropc persons have moved in the matter OF
providing for this large and increasing places where
thew may obtain board at rates in accordance TO their
means and at the time be shielded from the extra
neous influences Of questionable associations The pres
ept workingvonens Home is needed blessing. and de-
serves kindly consideration and confidence OF ALL But
the Home as exists is experiment and crudity
The two leading ideas In this enterprise should be to save
time and to mako strength Time Is money emphatically
with the workin gwoman. and every appliance that looks
10 the saving OF time and strength should be considered
necessity Elevators TO lift her TO her little dormiiory
her home on the fifth hoorafter she has toied hard
all day. and walked considerable distance home. be-
cause forsooth she cannot afford 20 ride would save
many seepess night from headache and much subse-
ouent suffering and Going up and down stairs
TO their labor is killing more Young American women
than sedcniary habits or the sewing machine.
The d0rnItories should be single or ht most
should contain than two persons; the present
system OF herdng together -four or hve IN aSnge room
who visited the WoIhngwomens Home IN EnkabethHt.
perncious IL is also destructive or time; Tor Whcn 20
many persons are crowded together differing IN tastes
and interests. how Is 1t possible TO read. write or THINK
amid loud, light or foreign conversation constantly car
red around the same table and under me gt OF one
gas-burnerf IL Is destructive OF ofucr cor " smpy
Impossible TO keep ones effects diy and systematoAly
when six hanging hooks ana five square feet OF shelf
roon 20 arranged that one cannot utnIe Whout Pnhs
zeal discomfort and open and exposed 70 he dust oi the
IL destructive of serespect, for begets measure OF
careessness that degades IN manner In proportion as IL
does In feeling
The rooms should be heated by steam or hotar pipes
that Al her return cold and weary from labor the work
ngwoman may be spared the trouble OF clearing out her
stove and kindling her freor II she Is unable TO
bear the expense OF aud fuel the necessity OF
ett,ng In cold Each dOrmory should not only have
gasbnrner but be arranged that the occupant may
have light during all her reasonable waking hours Ihe
dOrmtOry should be provided with such needtul appi-
aDccs as would supply the absolute necessities 10 sch As
have known their value under favorable CONDITIONS
OF life teach their utility 10 such a. may not nhNo
been favored with the refining Influences oil sucn hfPs
The should be selected with care, dressed anu pre-
pared by sbuful hands, and cooked on scienhc prn.
ciplea Some competent matrony person Should proSno
In the parlOrDot so much to watch and reDuke M py
her presence TO restrain 10 direct and TO refine tnh Of
reading discussions or otherwise inc Worns
woman may not lose tho refnement that che neenr;
IN s bope1 that Mr. A. T. Stewards hotel now Dulhlhg,
will not be wanting any Of the essentials 70 save u
and strength 70 tho class for Which u u liehueu pus
viii be In the highest sense model w9rklnRwoman
home calculated by It's appointments anu ueo,ioh no'
only TO add dignity to labor bat refinement ana ee'a
ton 10 the laborer. H.. .,,,d slono and
are selfsnuportng to-day as numerOus AZ thc youhg
1orLjncnrn Of our country. Much has been Haid and
dn fnr the but how little Tor mo WORKING
woman Ia ~ not time that the public attention was
called more directly 70 this subJecti L. M r.
I.rI Eel H..