The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-26

| supposed to do is professional work She
comes to New York to paint, to study mu-
sic, to write, to design and to swing into
law, medicine and even the ministry but
as matter of fact Comparatively few girl
bachelors choose these beaten tracks but
/ prefer to branch out for themselves into
more open fields of usefulness
The typical girl bachelor is extremely
well dressed. She earns her money, Of
course, but she knows how to spend it to
advantage, which the home girl cannot al
ways claim and she lives we'll She
knows what and how to eat it, and what
to say and when to say it. She is always
delightfully."- at home and she presents va
rious other charming earmarks, by which
you soon learn to know her.
1t was claimed last year in the haunts
OF girl oachelordom that the greatest
successes had been made by young wo-
men who had gone into beaten tracks and
| had worked upon old things. carving new
methods into them. One girl bachelor
made success as a hotelkeeper. She
hired little road-house on a bicycle path
and there furnished little suppers to cy-
clists. Her few wel-furnished rooms
were leased all the season to enthusiasts
who could not bear to get too far away
from the bicycle roads, She made
money and will take the hotel another
year..
A favorite occupation with the girl bach
elor in New York-with a little capital
is the keeping of a candy store She
learns how to make her most COSTLY con-
fections, and after a while buys only her
cheap candies, her penny goods" She
gets these from some wel-known house.
and in return secures their permission 10
use their name over her front door. Her
p We a 70 raf
and she puts in eight hours a dav
waiting on the counter herself
one OF the advantages of the girl bache-
Tor who comes to New York is that she
can do as she pleases without being de-
tected, for there is no place like New York
In which to hide yourself. She does not
lose her social standing if she tends
shop and this she cannot always saw of
herself in her own neighborhood
Ihere are few women florists in New
YORK, because, contrary to supposition
flower work is very dirty work 1t is wet
and hard upon the hands, and for that
reason but few girl bachelors have drffted
into it.
A great majority are in what is some
times called the half-professions. These
comprise stenosraphy, very expert tvne-
writing, bookkeeping and private score
taryship. These afford a good living and
give the girl bachelor a standing which
post of private secretary is most coveted
The girl bachelor who comes 10 New
York must have with her a nice sum Of
money Margaret Sangster Is quoted az
saying that a girl who knows how TO do
something" can come to New York on 500
Marion Harland onced placed the price at
S175, but the girl bachelor will feel a great
deal safer If she has $500 in her pocket.
though she need not spend it If she does
not want 10,
The cost of living in New York is dear
There is no need of saying that you can
board in Harlem cheap, because Won
can't You may get your board for s. a
week, but your carfare and lunches eat
into your salary. and you Will find that. in
such an out-of-the-wsy place, you have TO
journey an hour night and morning to get
to and from home.
A more sensible and at the same time
low estimate Of the cost of living in New
York is this
Per
Week
Board and lodging. 81
Lunches and carfare