Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-07-11

TINE nan BEDnoosi.
1t Proved an Uncomfortable Place For
This Woman.

1t Proved an Uncomfortable Place For
This Woman,
New York Sun. VIZ
The woman who had arrived grew re-
Elective. II shall never forget my hall
! bedroom days, $50 in number" she
said. "a good deal has been written
about the hall bedroom of New York,
but no pen can tell all its miseries. |
cams to New YORK fresh from the
ample spaces OF a country home. ! took
hall bedroom because it was the only
room in the house | could afford.
1t had in 1t cot, covered by day with
an Oriental tapestry, a washstand, a
screen, a shelf curtained off with hooks
beneath for clothes, a looking glass on
the wall, with a little stand beneath,
two chairs, and useful piece of furni-
ture, which was writing desk, bookcase
and dressing case combined. When my
trunk and my typewriter were added to
these treasures. i could turn around
with care, By opening the door 30 as Co
utilize part Of the hall for the pur-
pose.
my typewriter knocked out the
little stand in one round. Could it
have sat still, it would have stood the
burden. But i Ind to move the stand
whenever wanted to dress, or to get
at my trunk, and rs did not remove
the typewriter, but simply dragged the
stand around, the poor thing quickly
collapsed. The landlady looked severe
| when / told her. When / got another
stand / carefully lifted my typewriter
off whenever 1 wanted to move the
stand, which was dozen times day
My dresses were continually falling
fran the hooks without the slightest
provocation and had always to move
the screen, and then bring "A chair to
stand on TO hang them up again. The
only way i. could get any light or air
was to sit by the window; and as my
1 trunk had to stand there, / had perforoe
to sit on the trunk; and trunk can
be improved upon as place of con.
tinuous reposes 1 have sat upon 1t for
hours, tailor fashion, mending my
clothes, when my very soul !oathed the
needle.
1T was an acrobatic feat to dress in
that room in the morning. never
\ shall forget soTe of my mnddening
struggles to get into my clothes in two
square feet OF space. or six months
nevor knew now my back hair looked,
for it was too dark over by the glass to
see. My destructive tendencies came
out strong, for j pulled down first the
curtains over my clothes. and then
those at tha window, pole and all.
had to keep good many things in my
trunk, and Whenever | wanted to get
at them, 1 had to first remove mass
Of booRe, parerss and manuscript from
the lid, or else open it and let them
slide down behind. had to sit on my
trunk to play my typewriter, because
neither of the chairs was high enough. :"
Aud SO yon hate the hall bed
room?''
"Why, no;I don't know that do.
That hall bedroom witnessed my first
triumph. / got my first check there I;
800, for 2000.woId story. When /
opened the envelope and saw that
check, | grew faint. 1t was the re.
vulsion, after six months of grim,
heart-rending determination. Then
laugh ed and cried, and grew hysterical.
Anyone with my experience could have
told me that one swallow did not make
summer; but to me IL was the be-
ginning of success. And so it proved.
|. have net lived in hall bedroom
Since
"And now2p
The woman who had arrived wac
silent. and looked starlight ahead of her.
Then she laughed and rose suddenly.
II wish 1 could ever be rs happy
again as | was when | got thu check, .
| ehe said