New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-14
THEIR LITTLE HOME
Hon THO Bachelor Girls of limited
Income LiDed Within Their Means.

) when made up my mind TO leave my home
which is in q little town in the Middle West
and 10 try my fate IN New-York." said q young
woman who IS making her living here by writ
ing. my family sought 10 dissuade me by pict-
uring The hardships Td have to undergo.
had nothing mush TO bring with me but my
ambition and bunch OF manuscripts. and. be-
ing a tyro. my prospects Of earning naturally
looked indefinite. And even If you do manage
10 hang on somehow my aunt told ne, what
Sc your life likely 70 be? Boarding in some
cheap boarding house-do you know what a
New-York cheap boarding house is hke?-
or else cramped fn furnished room, cooking
your meals, when you have any. over the gas
Set. keeping the frying pan IN the bureau
drawer along with your hair brush and clean
collars. just az a thousand and one girls
doing IN New-York to-day. imagining they are
achieving independence, while really they are
simply achieving dyspepsia and the loss Of
their youth
Z mean 10 have fat by and BY I said
and my aunt inquired If I was aware that rents
and gas bills were a trihe high in New-York
The truth was that my knowledge Of that and
Of an things metropolitan was about nil, but
had the New-York bee IN my bonnet, and I
came. I hunted up a boarding house and coy-
enanted for a hall room and my meals at 81 a
week And for a time satisfied. In the
first place. I was too busy trying to induce
editors to publish the stuff I'd brought with me,
and writing moro stuff, to notice much how
lived; and then in a boarding house you do see
q lot OF human nature, and I enjoyed that.
Nevertheless presently awoke to the fact that
I was not comfortable. My room was so small
and so dingy, and had such an air of having
been used by innumerable people before me!
Also IL wasn't heated, and the month was jan
uary. The meals, with their hashes and gen.
Of I'd lard
perfunctory serving. tried my soul and my
stomach. I took my trunk TO another house
but after few days in that concluded that
cheap boarding houses were much of much
ness Well, wasn't the only girl who had to
put up with then-or in them I must be pa
tent, supposed. TIL my fortunes improved.
A COMPANION
'T being patient with moderate success
when something happened. That was the COM
ing OF one Hope Lanham TO the house where
was She a stranger in New-York. too
but she had initiative. We liked each other
from the first. We bought an oil stove in part
nership, and nights when she came home from
work-she had a place in an office-we would
sit and hug that stove and talk. One night
said to her that I wished we could have a fat
together time.
I've been thinking of that she said. IF
you really do feel that you'd like it. why
couldn't we have one nowT
A fiat requires an income. doesn't It? And
look at me. subsisting on stray checks. Last
week, it's true, made the proud sum of SIC
sold two newspaper stories and a quatrain But
again, some weeks it's nothing
And my present weekly stipend is S13.' said
Hope. Not much. is It? But see here; we have
70 pay our board. However we scrimp on clothes
and laundry and car fare, we pay that Seven
and seven make fourteen. Many families keep
house on less
Yes, but in what fashion,
They can't be worse off than we are here
Anyhow she said, suggest that instead Of