The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-22
COOPERATIVE HOUSEKEEPING.
How Some Boston Girls Solved tn
Prohlpm of Living

Row Some Boston Girls Solved the
Problem of Living.
contributor to the Boston Herald, in
an article on the subject of cooperative
housekeeping, presents some interesting
details as to how young girls who are home
less can secure a home for themselves. The
writer says: Find some congo NAL friend
or friends who want the home as much as
you do and MAKE believe you are sisters,
or rather, do the very things these girls
are doing. 1t has been done, it is still be-
ing done. A young girl employed in one OF
the stores was anxious 10 make a nome
She and her mother had been left alone in
the world with nothing in their pockets. so
both must work They had small house,
but nothing to keep it with, so they rented
it, the mother took position as house
keeper and the girl went into store. Her
boarding-p place was distasteful to her, for
she had always been accustomed to her
own home. She was unhappy ana discon-
tented She found other girls who had
known what it meant to have a real home
and who were living dreary lives in the
duh houses which they could afford to
patronlZe. One day an idea struck the
girl; there was the house, there was the
mother; here were the girls homesick and
lonely. Why not bring all these factors to-
gether and make result that should be
happy and profitable for all She talked to
lie blIlS, lutN were utIBultu WIN suV
idea; she talked to her mother. and found
that she, too. was longing for q home again.
So the tenants were given notice. and the
newly organic family took possession. IL
was three ye, rs ago that the home was
made, and 1t xists to-day, as harmonious
and happy rs my you will find. The mother
heart has Oprned to take all the girls in,
and they 90 to her with all their condolences
and take her advice They are pretty.
bright girls; they had church connection,
and that has brought them into social con-
tact with pleas ant people; they teach in the
Sunday-school; they belong to the Kings
Daughters; they subscribe to lecture
courses and magazines; they have pretty
much all the home girls have, and they
work for 1t all. And in spite of the work,
perhaps because of it, and the fine inde--
pendence it gives them, they have remained
genuine thoroughbred gentlewomen through
| every circumstance and surrounding. IheY
are not of the class that call themselves
"saleslades," they are too well educated,
and understand the use Of the language too
well to allow them to commit such sole
cism, but they are glad TO be good sales
women during business hours, and gentle
| women all the time.
Cases like this multiply rapidly when one
really sets out to look for them. A few
years agO-yes, number of years ago, SO
many now that they can hardly be reckoDed
as few any mOre-two Young women came
| from the country to win their way IN
town. They were of good New England
stock, and had the sturdy Independence that
characterized the families whose names they
bore; they were we'll educated, for both had
been intended for teachers. and had found
they did not like the work. The country
| town in which they lived afforded no OPP
portunities for them, so they took affairs
into their own hands and came to Boston.
| They soon obtained positions where they
were well paid, and would have been quite
| happy had they not been possessed Win
| such.