The sun., 1905-09-10
THE BACHELOR GIRLS HOME.
ADVANTAGES or A STUDIO OVER
4 FLAT.

4 FLAT.
Limitations Of Life. Including the Bill Of
Fare. sixteen stories Up-The FRO
misc,o,,s Maid, the Bed ami tho cats.
II ia the idea OF the New York bachelor
girl to get a near the skies a. possible.
Not that che bankers after mansions there
but the skylight pleases her.
SO by choice she lives in the studio. She
doesn't always need tho skylight, hardly
ever needs 10, IN fact; for she IL not neces-
sarily an artist because she lives In studio.
She may be writer, reporter, stenoS-
rapher or even managing saleswornAn
in some big department store who has an
eve TO the esthetic. Bat the skylight 10
pretty. II drapes gracefully with feb net
ting or old silk, and Ia good to hang UNI
brelas from, and Japanese lanterns and
skulls. Moreover, the cool north light. 80
dear to painters, becomes the hair and
the complexion.
Perhaps the nearest to the skies the bach
elor girl sets In New York-the Flatiron not
having been turned into studios yet--is
In the building in which the elevator carries
you sixteen stories up and then you walk
up fight. The door opens on a roof ana
you have before you the Hudson, framed In
spots by tops Of tall buildings, but oftener
stretching itself out and away, beautiful
glistenins blue and white ribbon painted
with little white boats.
bachelor girl at tho head OF the stairs was
about to start for Greenwich or Green
land to spend the week end. Week ends
are becoming almost as fashionable In New
York as they are in London. She was
upon the eve Of closing her door, when the
report sr discovered herself and he errand,
the studying Of the New York bachelor
girl on her native heath and at her own
radiator.
The bachelor girl opened her door gra-
ciously and revealed her studio trihe dark
and shrouded for the week end it was to
spend by itself, but very pleasant. A great
square green tinted room filled with brass
oAndlesticks-for what is a studio without
a brass candlestiok?-bits Of mahogany
and Chippendale collected from attic and
auction room, polished hoors, with rugs
here and there, altogether an artistic den
and charming.
The bachelor girl shut the door, locked
It and put the key cway in her pocket.
Sorry I can't stay and talk with you.' .
she said, "but must make my train
At the sound Of voices the door at the
end Of little dark hall opened furtively.
It opened wider. pretty. black eyed
girl emerged. She stood on the threshold
looking out.
She wore a long and graceful painting
apron which failed to exhibit trace OF
paint. On her stockngless feet were
sandals.
"Come in here, she beckoned.
The reporter went in and hastened to the
window. The view! New York lying out
In the sunshine. pink stone, gray stone,
white stone, the river again and the little
white boats, a long way of. the other shore!
Little velvety grass plots 20 far down. Tho
reporter leaned over the sill, which was
fortunately wide.
III you haven't your rent, she suggested,
"how easy to end all here! You would
never know what struck you, or rather,
what you had struck"
when We get like that" said the black
eyed girl we 60 out for walk"
Rising, she took her little white silk gloves,
that had been pinned to the curtain to dry,
and put them In a drawer. A handkerchief
silhouetted itself, but she let 1t remain.
Have drink" she asked, and going into
the tiny hall she raised . fancy curtain,
opened tiny ice box. brought out = piece
Of ice and put it into glass Of water
"No arrangements are made for ice boxes
in studios she explained. 'They are
liable to be anywhere, In tho front hall or
on the roof
"You are worry near the roof
I'VE get as near as possible, on account Of
the roof PARTIES
4Then not on account OF the skylight for
painting purposes?'
well, should think not!"
-why do you prefer studio life to the life
Of nat? You could get great big hat
uptown for the price you pay here
But who wants to spend q lifetime on
the elevated2 I like it on account Of the
freedom and the difference.
Fancy living In . fat exactly like fifty
ether people In the same building! should
die of the sameness Of 1t.
-This Is expensive unless you take all your
meals in your studio, and II you do that you
are mighty apt to get hungry living on oold
things that don't have to be cooked, things
from the delicatessen store, things that have
no odor, eggs and cold ham.
"Odors are not generally allowed in
studios-fried ham, for instance; steak,
or the noise OF cooking, though they don't
object 80 much here. I think the reason
they generally object is that beneath the
studios, on the ground floor, there il nearly
always q cafe. run by the owners Of tho
studios.
How do you like the way my skylight
u trimmed?' looking up.
"Lyvely!' exclaimed tho reporter.
1T is very simple compared to some,'
this modestly. Frances, my room mate,
won't let mo trim 1t much. 6he paints q
little when We haven't too many callers
shave fried who has arranged hor sky-
light very artisdcslly. She strung netting
across it, hung brass lantern right in the
middle, stabbed it severely with rusty
sword we'll to the rilht, then flung slipper
UP % that it stuck there as II 1t had been
kicked Oh foot.
.Yes. A Japan6se slipper. Of course.
Really. 1t was lovely. You ought to So It.
sThat 10 q pretty line Of bookcases. It
u very much admired. They are good.
tauestries."