New-York tribune., 1904-09-28
JUVENILE FASHIONS.
A BACHELOR GIRLS PLANT.
Sordid Cares Enter the 'True sphere"-Fur-
nished Room Problem.

This bachelor girl business is AL a fake" said
the girl from the country as she threw paperful
O. damp coffee grounds and broken eggshells into
her wastepaper basket and surveyed with discon-
tent a disordered table fun OF dirty dishes. y
rho~ght when I left home that was going TO get
away from al the trivial and sordid cares Of the
true sphere ard here I've gone and deliberately
ssdd.ed myself with the worst of them. So far as
can see. there isn't any difference between wash
ing dishes il the sink n your own kitchen and
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
70 sell ny chahng dish and steam coffee pot and
look for good boarding house
wow. I suppose" she continued. beginning 70
pile up her cup. saucer and plate. that ali the
girls in my town would give their eyetesth 10 be
fl my place here II Eew-York. AL can say IS that
II their parents object this mode OF life they had
better let them come here and Try H. Personally.
I'm glad THAI I've had the experience but it's one
OF those things I wouldn't have missed for 800.
and wouldn't DO again for Sleao It's enlighteninE-
but fits uncomfortable.
7 used thilk that II would be getting down
10 the heart OF real life 10 live in Farret and get
my breakfasts or chafng dish and my din
ners around queer little cut OF the way French
and italian table q 'hctes with poets and authors
and artists I found out that you can't live that
life for the sake % living it The only way that
Il is endurable is 70 have object. a purpose an
aim in life so strong that you are deadened 10
everything else and don't care how you live II
you would give any OF the poets ard authors
and artists that you eating around az the cult
Joints q chance 70 get dinner at the 81. Regis.
you wouldn't And that he would stop because Il
was Philisttne- Personally every time | pass a
good hotel and see We'll dressed women eating good
food IN Phiistine splendor I have a wave Of feeI-
Ing that IS positively anzrchistic. and for q good
plain, Wholesome well served dinner Of soup, meat,
potatoes. vegetables and dessert I would cheer
fully barter al the queer little French and Italian
table d'h5tes in York-artists, poets authors
ana miscellaneous geniuses thrown IL. The spec
taele Of poet eating spaghetti can't satisfy your
appetite-especislly IL you don't happen 70 ike
spaghetti
/ reao in magazine once a story abou. girl
VINO used 10 put her gas stove by the side OF her
oeo al nlgh; and touch a match II In the morn
& .lg ana Dol her coffee and her egg al the same
bS-o9t ~ H. even getting up. thought about trying
" did not dr & 5It IN me SRI n - the @ story evident
.SIlnou[ butter and had appetite FOR rolls or
= you can't eat an egg without roll OF some toast
- - 50 % win u you have got the refrigerator and
Hore & trouble in keepirg i've cents worth OF cream
butter than in running yvbo7e bo,lsE,5 o = ' ,i
hsppen 70 object 10 the nxed and permanent odor
your room that's an II YOU have ever been both
yt VIZ ss ne problem Of what TO do with the
dis2osing OF II IN furnished apartments. -
rnsre tsS t., sUpessI1lon y -. on IS a de.usion and
makes you feel a good deal more Ike the Micaw-
srIe bolefnians you read about I can't feel bit
H .ollaI'uc Wheh I n toiIng up four fights of dark
esa-is' snd can't thoroughly enjoy the delights
y q eI1anclpation when get there II the windows
ete nlls ana The triumphaurly advertised run
154Is water IN The Stationary stand won't run.
eaen 60 down two fights of stairs 70 the bath
Lo.n 70 take bath, only 20 find that there IS
@ nor water, / feel that I would trade of all my
olftsD curtains and artistic box furniture
ies,%@ nice Phiistine private porcelain bath-or 81
49, a, sh ordinarily welikept bathtub on the
sli.- NJ ne where the water hot occasion
fir5Se neh m freezing 10 death and AT the same
want 10 pitcb g e., win gas fumes IN The winter.
brrrc-. --Ild Guy good, solid Ph!listine base
icr az home '' - nave III 1iS "'N pa
le VESTS that oiri "a IN i've co5nforfa biN and
Yo~J 1-s ana az the time cheapy in New
disif,-ei- go On but there is wholesale process OF
i've .os ~ nj going al the time! a girl can
it - S'-95tahly and artistically here in NevgYork
-. - car 90 n cheaply- She can live chPapy.
yC1 SIC can't do Il comfortably and artistically.
49, - tikher rates for comfort and art here
10" kOl co any place ] kTow 81. II YOU have to
- CAeapy. you might we'll resign yourself 70
.lucQlar sort % bohemanisYn' practised by
sr5 sLca"ners. and admit frankly that it's poverty