St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-28

ladies who are blessed with the true Amer
lean spirit of independence and swapping
their fingers detiantly in the face of the
world, set boldly out to battle with its adj
VerSitieS. Their vacations are varied.
Many of them are stenographers others fill
clerical positions, some pursue that mind
improving avOcatiOn, type-setting, while a
few are teachers of music and painting.
1t is great home and those who live in IT.
though strangers at first, soon become
sisters in spirit and the institution has come
to be like one large family.
A PEEP INSIDE.
A sharp ring at the door bell of the Met
ford house yesterday afternoon by GLOBE
reporter brought to the door neat-at-
tired servant who ushered him into cosy
little room and at his request went to sum-
mon Mrs. Proctor. Mrs. Proctor is the lady
of the house or the matron as she is more
generally known. The servant had hardly
disappeared from the room when rather
short lady of full form came through the
door and babe her visitor hearty welcome.
This was Mrs. Proctor, the matron. A
lady little past middle life, with hair well
threaded with silver, cOmbed back from a
face that beSpeaks a warm heart and
mOtherly disposition, and when she speaks
you at once become interested. for she
talks with the air of a woman who can CON-
bine business with pleasure and the rich in
Election of her voice that tells of English
birth and breeding falls pleasantly on the
ear.
$50 you have come to learn how we
live?" she inquired pleasantly through her
smiles. ''Well, III tell you. We have
just the incest time together that you can
imagine. / have tried since l came here
last October to make it just as near like a
home for the girls as possible and believe
they are all happy. There are twenty
boarding here now. That is the average
number. Sometimes l have more. some
times less. The board paid by the girls
averages So week. OF course, with the
present number of boarders, this doesn't
pay expenses, but we hope to have more
soon and believe that the Milford house
will become prosperous institution. We
labor under one great disadvantage by be-
ing so far from the business center of the
city. If we were father down we could
get great many more boarders. This
house was leased for three years. but
the expenses are so heavy it
is almost impossible to make il a
self-supporting institution. We pay S25 a
week rent and besides consume nearly two
tons of coal every ten days. Our rules are
not unnecessarily rigid. When a girl an
plies to us for board. we first satisfy our
selves as to her moral character. if she
proves to be respectable girl. she is taken
in and made one of the family. We ex-
pect to be paid board in advance. but if the
boarder is out of. employment and doesn't
happen TO have the money, it makes no
difference, and if any of the girls are taken
sick we try to give them as good care as
they would get if they were at home. AS a
rule the lights are turned out and the doors
locked at 10 o'clock every night, but some
times the girls have occasion to stay out
later than that hour and no objection is
made. We have jolly times here among
ourselves evenings, With music, games,
books and sewing we pass the hours very
pleasantly. We have three parlors, two