The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-10


ing livelihood was closed to her because
she had never prepared herself to take
them up There is no place for the I'M
trained and unsystematic woman among
the boarding house keepers, because the
experience and energy demanded now
are no greater among any class OF work
ing women Even these women talk re-
gretfully of the time in which 1t was
possible to make earnings large enough
to accumulate after while at least
modern competency.
1.-The demands of boarders have increas-
ed so much" one of them said the other
day, that profit is cut down until little
or nothing remains. One change in Amer
lean habits as the New York boarding
house keeper has to deal with them Will
explain the difficulty of making money
compared to what one would expect for
merly The only boarding house that pays
well is one that is filed until two persons
occupy every room. Formerly two per-
sons would always be willing to room
together, but now the average married
couple that comes to me demands two
rooms and never cares to occupy one
in the manner they did formerly. If two
young men or women come to me they
always want separate rooms, although
could formerly count on friends who -
piled to me together, being satisfied with
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nowadays-it's the exception.
1.-The most the first-class boarding house
keeper can demand is $35 a week for one
of her best rooms IL it is to be occupied
by one person. She could let that go for
$2S If it were 10 be occupied by two, and
then earn $50 from the room. For it is
not the food for one person that counts in
an ordinary New York house nearly so
much as the space. Rents are proportion
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she opens a boarding house to-day is
utilizing all the space possible to pay
the rent. That's become a much more
difficult proposition since it is possible to
make only half as much out of the rooms
as formerly.
'Then boarders are nowadays so much
more exacting in other ways. They must
have separate tables, and that requires
twice as much service in the dining rooms
and they must have meals served in a
certain way and the hours must be longer
Nowadays some persons dine considerably
later than they used to, and while some
stick to half-past 6, there are as many
who don't want to come down until after
Z. All these things have combined to
make the business not nearly as paying
as 1t used to be-"
Another blow to the boarding house was
the establishment of the apartment hotels
These hotels charge a fixed price a week
for food and give the occupants apartments
at price not much If any in excess of
the rates of the first-class boarding house.
They insure, moreover, greater privacy
as the guest, after he has closed his door
is as much master of his two or three
rooms and bath as If he were in his cas-
tie These places also provide the same
service found in a hotel, which is natu-
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boarding house can offer in addition to the
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oath for the guest and other convenience
es impossiblein a private house. Bachelor
apartments have also helped to diminish
the patronage of the clearinghouse keep
ers, as the single men who can afford
choose the apartment nowadays and find
in them conveniences that more than
compensate for the increase in expense.
A bow under the left ear-that is the
latest coquettish touch on a woman's col
lar. The bow may be of velvet or silk
or tulle or it may be no bow at adjust
huge bunch of tulle or a rosette Of
velvet-but it must be almost under the
ear. Until you have tried the effect of
the new bow you have no idea how be-
coming it is, what a saucy finish it gives
40 the plainest stock. If the stock is of
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Way-the ends are drawn up and tied at
the side. If it is velvet stock the bow
IS fastened on we'll towards the top. When
the bow is Of tulle, or If it is merely a
chou of tulle instead of bow, it is fast
ened into the top of the stock. do not
know who is responsible for the fashion
but some of my friends who seem to
know where all of the new ideas originate
say that one night very pretty actress
came on the stage with her ribbon stock
turned half way round. Its maker had
designed the collar to fasten at the back
under black velvet bow and il was care
iessness that allowed the bow to get un-
der the left ear. But the style proved so
becoming to the pretty actress that the
next day there was an army of girls on
Broadway with bows stuck under the left
ear the fashion is now sweeping over
New York like wildfire-aHhough it was
only two weeks ago that the first stock
OF this particular genre appeared. 1t is
pretty enough to deserve a long-lived pop
ularity
The present sovereign of Great Britain.