The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-11-11
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er Lney can be distinguished.
a BACHELOR GIRLS PLANT.
Sordid Cares Enter the "True Sphere"
Furnished Room Problem.

IlhlS DacholOr girl business is all a
fake said the girl from the country
as she threw paperful of damp COT
fee grounds and broken eggshells into
her wastepaper basket and surveyed
with discomfort disordered table full
of dirty dishes. 81 thought when ]
left home that was going to get
away from all the trivial and sordid
cares of the true sphere and here
I've gone and deliberately saddlsd my,
self with the worst of them. So Tar
as l can see, there isn't any difference
between washing dishes in the sink
in your own kitchen ard wash basin
in a furnished room, except that the
first is good deal easier and more
convenient. I'm through with being
bachelor girl. I'm going to sell my
chatting dish and steam coffee pot and
look for coed boarding house.
"Now, I suppose" she continued.
beginning to pile up her cup, saucer
and plate, that all the girls in my
town would give their eyeteath to be
in 1ny place here in New York. All ]
can s.ly is that if their parents OBJECT
to this mode of life they had better
let them come here and try it. Per-
sonally, I'm glad that I've had the
experience, but it's one of those
things | wouldn't have missed for
$100, and wouldn't do again for $1,000
It's enlightening-bu it's unoomfor-
table,
81 used to think that it would be
getting down to the heart of real life
to live in garnet and get my break
fasts on a chafing dish and eat my
dinners around at queer little out OF
the way French and Italian table
d'hotes with poets and authors and
artists. found out that you can't
live that life for the sake OF living 1t
The only way that it is endurable is
to have an object, purpose, an aim
in life so strong that you are dead
ened to everything else and don't
care how you live.
Il read in a magazine once story
about girl who used TO put her gas
stove by the side of her bed at night
and touch match to it in the morn
ing and boil her coffee and her egg
at the same time and in the same pot,
and eat her breakfast without ever
getting up. l thought about trying
that, but found that the girl in the
story evidently did not drink milk o.
cream in her coffee, went without but
ter and had no appetite for rolls OF
toast. II you don't take your coHee
straight, and if you can't eat an egg
without a roll or some toast to go
with it, you have got the refrigerator
and the mouse difficulty to wrestle
with. You can have more trouble In
keeping five cents worth OF cream
sweet and providing yourself with
fresh rolls and butter than in running
a whole household. If you happen %
object to the fixed and permanent
odor of coffee in your room, you can {
make coffee in your room, that's all
If you have ever been bothered with
the problem of what to do with the
refuse food in your own home yon
ought to try disposing of it IN 'fura-
ished apartments
THE garnet superstition is de-
fusion and snare, too. Try it and
you will find out that it makes you
feel good deal more like the Cicaw'
bers than the Little Billees and Tril-
bys and other true bohemians You
read about. l can't feel bit roman
tic when I'm toiling up four flights OF
dark stairs, and | can't thoroughly en-
-; Of q nj inafinn when
/ get there if the windows are dirty
and the triumphantly advertised run
ming water N the stationary stand
won't run. When | go down Two
flights of stairs to the bathroom to
take bath, only to find that there Is
no hot water, feel that would trade
off all my green burlap curtains and
artistic box furniture for nice Phil
istine private porcelain bath-or, at
least, an ordinary wellkept bathtub on
the same floor with me, where the
water ran hot occasionally. When I'm
freezing to death and at the same
time suffocating with gas fumes IN
the winter, want to pitch my arts
tic gas heater out of the window,
and buy good, solid Ph1listine 'Dase
burner such as we used to have III
the old parlor at home.
'sThe commonest tradition of the
of the VESTS that
girl can live comfortably and arts
tically and at the same time cheaply
in New York. and oh, but there is
wholesale process of establishment
going on all the time! A girl can live
and artistically here in
New York, but she can't do it cheaply-
She can live cheaply. but she can't &c
t comfortably and artistically. You
pay higher rates for comfort and art
here than you do any place know OF.
# you have to live cheaply, you might
IS well resign yourself to the particu-
ar sort of 'bohemianism' practised by
he Micawbers, and admit frankly
hat it's poverty and not art. New
York Tribune.