The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-11
HER ROOMMATES.

Series Encountered by Q Young Woman
 Who is Earning Her Living. New York is supposed to be a para disc for girls who paint or wrie. But it isn't always.
 Its all right as far as the work goes,' remarked one young woman who has been through the mill. But, oh, the boarding houses and the room mates! They are an economy. That $ why you have them, of course. But be- fore earned money enough to dispense with them 1 came to prefer my coffin alone. to a 10-acre room with a room mate.
 "There was Clorinda, sweet soul, She was studying in a dramatic school. I thought she would be such good ma terial, that I welcomed her with open arms. But dramatic study wasn't t what I supposed it to be. She practiced by the hour trying to sing Annie Laurie.' She hadn't the first idea of pitch and am rather mus cal myself. When I had suffered to the last gasp, I used to flee to the Ii- brary to work.
 When I came back she was going through all the wriggles of contor- tionist. It used to get on my nerves. She rose at a. m, to, Clorinda did, and recited Juliet as the sun was rising. It was poetic but exhausting,
 "Clorinda finally left me. Her sue cessor was religious. She never went to bed before 12. Then she read her Bible aloud for an hour. I suffered from sleep famine all the time she was with me.
 Number three was an art student doing advertisements as a stop-gap till she became famous. When l came in dead tired she made me sit in an i'm provised tohobban made of the ironing board set up aginst chair for pie ture of an up-to- date Santa Claus. I posed as a tailor maid when she was doing an advertisement for a dress maker, and as Grecian beauty to ad- vertise health corset.
 'I might have refused to pose. I did one week and Ma-ree-ah had models But she borrowed the money from me to pay them and forgot to return it. So I went back to slavery again.
 Number four played the piano. She had one in the room on condition that Slit Wuuld oNllNN Dtily NllCi was ctl- She kept to her bargain once in while. But after awhile I found 1t easier to have her play than not When ever I sat down to write, she began to talk or else write letters. One was as bad as the other
 When she began to chew her pen over an epistle knew what to expect.
 Elizabeth, she would say, do you spell carry with one r or two?'
 Then just as I got well started in a story, agin it would be: 'E-liz-a-beth, has concern an or a c"
 By that time I began to beg her to play scales again
 But I had forgotten the southerner, she took the palm. She had never picked up anything in her life and she didn't begin with me. l made her bed when it wss made and dug my way through piles of her clothes whenever I moved She used te wheedle me into playing lady's maid. - 'Bt one day rebeIled. She was go-' ing to have one of her swellest patrons to call--she taught French-and I just 1 tok her party gown her sweet gown, l the half-dozen waists, petticoats, laces, i furs, feathers and eyrything else of | hers lying around the room and piled | them up in a heap or, the floor,
 She took her visitor into the room, l that I had tidled it up as l usual When she saw the heap, she marked with superlative self-posses- sion:
 My roommate has such a humorous way of disposing 4of her wardrobe, Pray excuse it.
 "sre held the trump card, but rela- lions were strained after that and she departed to more congenial quarters. New York Sun.