The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-30
HoMrs roR WoRKING GINS.
Experience Of Dominican sister In
Their MANAGEMENT.

Their Management.
To THE EpfroR or THE SuN SIR. Please
allow me- as a woman for twenty-five years
identified with efforts. under both Catholic
and Protestant auspices. 10 aid the working
women OF England and America. to express
my sympathy with Miss Alice Smiths sohcme
for the establishment In New York of r. home
for working girls. az described In your paper
OF lass Sunday / would hlso sound what
trust In a not discordant note OF warning.
Actual experience. ~ which Miss Smith
can have the benefit II she likes to write per-
sonally, proves that such house. with
clientele OF even 200. at from 50 to 81 per week.
once fitted up can be self-supporting. That
It cnn easily be filed ia shown by the long
waiting lists" OF the Gray Nuns Home In
Boston and az tho Guild House OF the Domini-
cana, of Philadelphia. Cast iron rules
should be melted down.
But doubt II 200 girls OF the stamp who
earn only IS or 90 n week can be kept In har-
mony and order under the rules which gov
ern any small respectable boarding house
or hotel which entertains women" With
certain exceptions wage measures worth
and money means merit The girl who earns
from s. to tS a week is generally young or
very unframed lacks that maturity and
discipline OF mind and will which make her
valuable 10 others and q sufficient guide TO
herself She cannot be leEislatcd for like
the Journalistic. teachers and trained pro-
fessional women who frequent the Martha
Washington Hotel at 50 Il week. or who make
homes for themselves in tho unequalled
womcn's apartment houses of London.
As Miss Smith states, the mother Ia the
law and the law River IN the home where our
girls live when under normal conditions. and
the tenement house mother often rules her
flock with strength and common sense not
always fou nd In Weather circles OF American
society. The mother Is the solution OF the
problem OF government which will surely
confront Miss Smith with lawlessness and
discontent, unless she can find. not merely
committee of management but women
who for love OF God and of 9rlhood viii 1--we
In the projected building and mother Its
work
The religious orders furnish such women
TO tho Catholic Church They are also 20 be
although at a disad vantage. from lack Of
systematic training in self-dlscipline which
t OF PFeGs ' Whether Smith us eS
what makes the home the mother.
bishop %orRers give out mo- rule. to
newcomers The girl who rebels against
meptioning late lecture or party Il met
mother OF your engagements. Give me the
courtesy you show your mother. She
e pride hese on the tome OF Of tas
Girls late to business giving dissatsfao-
ton barely holding her own. You VIII dis
An age limit will be found necessity:
Girls under 70 years OF re cannot be dealt
with Ike mature women
Moreover, many idris are trying TO support
themselves on So or s3.50 week. All trades
have alack seasons No worker has unin-
TGSd sahS h sed 9soG msn sfa
whereby it can extend toe credit Usually
reckoned for in the cheap boarding places.
frat years. while tho rate OF SAT- expenditure
must b. experimental. ~ guarantee for ultl-
mate success
Creed should be no stan lard OF admission.
But Will Miss smith kindly tell us TO what
similar institution only Cat olics are elig-
liant and cultured Catholic woman. bearing
an almost beseeching letter from the then
president Of Wellesley College. refused shelter
tuition OF New York ] know OF another
which bars out Catholics. Unitarians and
salyationists have myself landed, weary
srud ging shelter for one night only" and
turned adrft next day-a sunday by
great phllanthropio organization whose boast
Is our charity knows neither Catholic nor
Protestant simply because the waters Of
within the three weeks before which had
been ono OF It's most trusted workers.
have never, in my. twenty-five years ex,
Catholic boarding homes.
In the one I know best the Dominican
Guild House Protestants are as welcome as
Catholics. There are no "parlor prayers
But the little chapel is warm and bright. and
always open to those who will pass IN ana
pray Each girl has her single room. Temp
tations to overcrowdinR are steadily re-
sisted, although the sixty inmates can be
doubled any week that another houSe can be
opened The gtrl who must take her lunch
20 work has II put UP In a dainty Japanesc
napkin. The night worker has her late not
supper The sick girl Ia cared for in Il quiet
inhrmhry without extra charge
What II Is possible 70 do for sixty girls by
the aid OF margin OF assistance can be done
for 200 without e. Beyond that number
although increase makes the financial basis
steadily surer. az every housekeeper knows.
a hotel for young girls would be too much
Hike carayansary. NJ. j. i.
ALBANY, Jan. 81.