Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-07-19
woMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS

sweet Revenge in the Shape Of Flats for
Women Only.
The ordinary boarding housekeeper
has for fifty years been the terror Of
wage earning women. II she took the
woman boarder at all, she did it with
such a give-him-a-cold-p otato-and-let-
him-go air that the working girl felt
painfully her helplessness. She was
made to understand that men were in
all cases preferred to her and that il
men could be had to fill the landlady's
rooms the iandlady would not hesitate
moment about turning the girl into
the street. It seemed in truth that the
boarding housekeeper was the natural
enemy of her own sex. Well, the tables
are being turned now. Working women
have at last found q way to circumvent
vented fats and the modern apartment
housed Working women, from those in
literature and art to those who are
clerks in stores and employees in facto-
ries, have found out that by putting
their little funds together from two to
four Of them can rent q fat Of their
own and have that which every
natural woman's heart yearns for
q home, with or without q man
in it. as the case may be. but in any
event q home. Girls have discovered
that they have only to keep good ma
tured, do as they would be done by
and not let their tongues wag too freely
and they can live together in happiness
and harmony and make for themselves
the daintiest. brightest of homes. Every
year by the hundreds they are deserving
the forbidding old boarding house, where
they were only tolerated, not welcomed.
and taking little fats and making homes.
Bless them. how they do enjoy it! They
can have their friends come to see them.
they have their own pass keys and go
and come ss they please, and no spiteful
gable assails their ears. These hard
working, self respecting women always
pay their rent and are neat, businesslike
and quiet. And now comes in the sweet
revenge. Il is coming to be that il
house agents can rent fats to respect
able working women they prefer them
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do not smoke or have noisy beer drink
ing parties. and they do not wear ont
stairs and woodwork. In London build
ers who see the signs Of the times are
constructing apartment houses for wo-
men only" In New York an agent
thinks himself very lucky il he can oil
fat house with refined, quiet women
who earn their own living and mind
their own business.
II Is sign Of the times that woman's
free trade club, the Frances Cleveland
club has been started in New York by
Mrs. Mary Frost Ormsby. Sarah E.
Fuller. the engrsver, Is secretary, and
the Marguise LAMA, Or. William A.
Hsmmond's daughter. is chairman Of
the executives committee. These women
are in earnest and they intend 10 have
similar climbs established all over the
country this summer, 10 induce men TO
vote for Cleveland and free trade. The
position 10 the Mckinley tariff. because
in the judgment Of these ladies' that
tariff increases prices Of necessities and
makes life harder for poor people The
attention OF Mrs Orsnsby was first
called 10 this question when she went
among the Italian women last year 10
persuade them % help in the Worlds
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on imports Finally Mira ormsby be
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