Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-17

operation. She is
A SWEET VOICED GIRL,
with lovely face Since leaving college
she has been with the Brearley school, and
although the Rivington street work takes
much of her time, she still teaches in the
aristocratic school uptown. Five of her six
sisters in the settlement are also dependent
upon themselves for their livelihood. One
is studying medicine; another has received
her degree as a physician, and the others are
teachers in the Murray Hill schools. tits
something of q sacrifice for these young
women to give up their pleasant homes in
more fashionable streets, but they know it
will pay in the end. DR.. Caroline Hamil-
ton-she is the one who has attained her de-
gree in medicine-might settle in more
prosperous neighborhood, but she is fully
willing to put out her shingle on the Riv-
ington street house, and to try to build up
her practice among the people around her.
The four teachers find it hardship TO have
to travel so long a distance to and from
their schools uptown, but that is the price
of success in their work among the loWly,
and they pay it contentedly, and the one
girl who has an independent income is i'm
bued with the Father Huntington spirit,
and is quite pleased that she may make her
home in Rivington street with such con-
genial college chums.
Each of the seven girls has her own room,
and all divide the cost of housekeeping ex-
penses among themselves. 1t will probably
cost them less to live than if they were in
more select locality. But whatever the saw
ing may be it will be fully spent in the en-
tertaining of neighbors. Some friends will
probably contribute to the purpose too.
The idea is not to make the home free eat
NO nj MI
dinner as she might lodging at the station
house. The girls think it better to get ac-
quainted with the people around them, call
at their fats, and then invite them around
to the settlement to talk and perhaps have
tea. They are going to be hospitable and
neighborly, but not charitable.
INCREASING THEIR-CALLERs.
The other day when 1 was down there 1
saw one of the settlers standing on the stoop.
The front door was open, and the fair young
Sister of Sympathy was just bidding goodby
to d party of little girls who had called on
her. She wore no hat. and was clad in
simple house dress. To her skirts two of the
smallest children clung as if they really did
not want to leave. Three older children
were half way down the steps. They were
all smiling, and for a minute there was some
laughing talk. The last words that the
settler said were: Nov, goodby, children,
and the next time you come bring your
mothers with you, and some other time let
each one of you bring new girl with her."
That is the way the seven college girls are
increasing their calling list Don't you
think it quite clever, and don't you see how
there is nothing in it that the pride OF their
neighbors may resent?
And now for the house itself and the fur
niture. Really, there is nothing remarkable
about the building except its cleanliness
but that is strange thing to Rivington
street, and the fresh white paint and the un-
spotted walls will be object lessons, stimu-
lating callers to make their own tenements
as neat. The furnishings 1 can best de-
scribe by saying they are simple and every
where inexpensive. The girls want their
new friends to see how much NAV be done
with little money and a good deal of taste.
Take it all through the house, and there
probably is not a room on which more
money has been expended than the most of
the nearby families have spent for similar
purposes. But by their good judgment the
girls have got better results than could
their neighbors, and they know that this
will soon be discovered, and in time the
learning mothers will
PROFIT BY THE LESSON.
The main floor has a big sitting room in
front, and dining room in the back. The
front room has book shelves along the walls,
and besides the girls own books and some
others that form the nucleus OF a proposed
circulating library, there are 200 volumes
given by one publisher. All these 200 are
children's stories. Downstairs, the front
room is DR.. Hamilton's Office. 1t is lust
like the cozy nest of any other young
woman physician, and here she will talk
with her neighborhood patients about their
physical woes. There is also on this floor a
kitchen that is a gem of order and neatness.
Its big table is as white as any you could
find ia New England home.
On the floors above the sitting room are
the private apartments of the college COLONY
and there they are continuing the happy
life that they began in the corridors of
Vasssr, Smith and Wellesley. In the main
the girls are their own houseLeepers. for
they have only one servant, a woman who
looks after things when the settlers are out
She only helps in the cooking, for the girls
are not above attending, as much
as their time allows, to the wants of their
table.
The girls began to live in the Rivington
street house on October 1. Four will stav
there year. Three will leave at the end
of two months, and then three others will
come in fortw months so that many college
women who are anxious to help along the
work may have a chance to get under the !
roof. Thus there will be a continual corps
of enthusiasts experienced in the scheme.
of the four who are to remain wear three |
had been visiting in the neighborhood for
some months before they decided TO live |
there. They are very much satisfied now
they have taken the step. Their college |
friends are calling upon them constantly. |
and Fridays are set apart for the settlers to |
be "at home" to all college people. On |
Wednesdays they are sat home" to the ward.
Some nights they give parties to which the |
younger women cf the neighborhood are es- |
pecially invited, and to each young woman |
the privilege is extended of bringing her |
best young man. On Halloween there was
such party and the young folks did all the |
tradition says must be done that |
night. 1t was most jolly time and the |
tenement house folks had fun such as no |
mission could give them.
A NOBLE AIM.
1t is upon these children and the younger
women that the settlers are exerting their |
strongest, sweetest influence. They don't |
preach at them, but they talk with them the
same as they talk with new girls at college.
They tell them the secrets of their kitchen, |
why they think it wise and economical to
buy certain foods and cook them in certain
ways, they speak with them about their
dresses and the way to make them, and if
they see a girl bookkeeper among their
guests who has some pretty stuff for gown
the college girls are glad to ask her where
they may get some of the same goods. They
seek suggestions from their new friends on
other points, too, they talk with them about
books, and lend them some from
their library, they show the tene-
ment girl how college girl
furnishes her bedroom and makes it dainty
upon even few dollars, they have TOYS for
the children to sit around the floor and play
with, they let them drum upon their upright