St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-17


er cities or the country would be obliged
to sojourn in garrett if they
| tried to make the same amount
do in New York, says Kath-
| crime Grant in the Detroit Free
Press. The facilities for pursuing
any given course of study, such as
music or any of the branches OF art, are
undoubtedly greater here than else
where on this continent, but many An
| ambitious woman looks at her purse
hopelessly, thinks of the stories she has
heard of New York prices and gives
up her dream. There is no need of it.
To encourage such. listen to these
facts about the lives of two clever
young women whom l know. One is
an aEt-student; the other is employed
as private secretary. Their means are
ridiculously small, yet they have one of
! the coSieSt homes in New York. and for
| IL they each pay only $3.50 a week For
| $40 month they rented little fiat on
the third stage, as the Parisians say, of
a large apartment house in a re-
| spectacle, but UNREASONABLE block.
1t has pleasant sitting room,
two bedrooms, each larger than the av-
; erage ''hall bedroom" cunning little
! kitchen and good. sized bath room and
hall. Their gas bill averages so cents a
/ month, and the fiat is heated by steam
heat, without extra charge. All the
rooms are perfectly light, and
the sitting room has two big win
| dows. But it was not furnished,
you say. No, but in the
same house other apartments had been
furnished by the landlord, and rented
for $50 each per month. But these
! bright girls wanted their own Lares
and Penates. and how much do you sup
| hai FIN ichi
fiat was tastefully arranged, and yet for
all the furniture the price paid
was less than $50. The floors were
stained and in the sitting room
| small ingram art square was used.
Ihere were three pretty chairs, table,
book shelves, bits of bric-a-brac and
each bedroom had comfortable wide
cot. At the windows dainty cream
| colored curtains were Topped aside, and
the little art student gleefully told
me they cost flour and three-tourths
cents yard" Sketches and en-
cravings were pinned lavshly OH the
| walls, the oak rocker had been deli
! clouSly cushioned in crimson, in one of
the embrasured windows the packing
box ''in which our china came" the
secretary confided to me with
an air of conscious pride, had
! been converted into window
| sat with bright shawl thrown over it,
and big pillow. in slip OF crimson
cashmere, for back. | looked around,
| and 1t was so sweet and dainty and
| homelike that pinned to stay there
| especially when thought of the $3.50 a
week each girl paid for this haven Of
rest.
For the low-priced New York board
! ing house have no good word. In the
most tQ -rl7.ina #
| young woman Of refined tastes could
live, she would be obliged to pay for a
| cold hall bedroom, with wretched fuel, lat
/ least So week; she would be thrown in
| with undesirable people, and have none
| of the comforts of home. These girls
told me that they lived excellently, and
| that their food and fuel cost them for
the two but $3.50 week.
! But they were living without chap
| erone? Yes, indeed, and neither was
| over twenty-five, but these girls were
| LADIES', brought UP in refined homes.
! They were exposed to fewer annoyances
| and dangers. living happily thus deuS
| than in third-rate boarding house.
which was all they could otherwise have
| afforded.
| Ii some ambitious little woman with a
slender purse who wants SO much TO
nave the advantages offered by some of
| New 1ork's great free Institutions
such as Cooper Union. for instance,
| gives the art student-reads this, let her
profit thereby, especially if she has
some friend who will join her in making
bit of home in our big city.
Ihere are hundreds of clever young
women here living as my two little
TRENDS live, and finding, thanks to the
| everIncreasing number of lighthouses,
cosy homes where they can have feel
ing OF liberty unknown in the dreary
gloom OF boarding house, good
food and three times the room thew
could get for the price in lodgings. And
young men are doing the same, three or