The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-10

most alWayS exposed to hardShips and humiliations, if she possessed refine ment and too often to temptation if she were pretty and attractive. He resolved that Bedding should offer ideal conditions tq the better class of working girls.
 When a stranger is told that here, in huge mill town, 1000 young women operatives are living under conditions that suggest those of Wellesley that the factory workers themselves are known not as mill girls, but as sorority girls, that the houses where they board are termed sorority houses and are said to be the equal of the finest sorority houses a the State University in Ann Arbo-, he is invariably incredu- lous.'
 But according to the Mechanic these girls do live in fine houses, each as handsome and as luxuriously fitted up as any college hall or dormitory. Every two girls have room between them, as is the rule at most of the Eastern colleges for women. These rooms have steam heat, electric light and hot and cold water tacllltleS.
 At meal times the girls eat in the great sorority house dining rooms, the best of cooks being provided for them, with uniformed waitresses, who serve the food daintly in courses. The board is said to be equal to that of any $2 day hotel and the rooms are super ior.
 Each house, besides being supplied with all the modern conveniences, has piano rooms, reading rooms and i braries. There are tennis courts and other outdoor diversions. Everything is supplied except the clothing the women wear, even to the soap, the starch and the bluing for the laundry, where the girls do their own work.
 All these advantages room, board and the use of everything that is go- ing-a girl enjoys for $40 a week. l Of course, these sorority houses do not run themselves. Each is in direct charge of Q matron and each has it's code of rules, very much like that pre- vailing in the average college girls l of residence and operating for the same purpose-to keep the moral sense clean.
 f Outside doors must be locked at 9:30 at night and all lights extinguished by 10 o'clock. The young women are re- quired to be in at the closing hour, but any of them who desire to attend an entertainment or spend the evening with friends, and who expects to be unable to reach the house before the closing hour, can obtain a pass from the matron. The giving of passes is entirely optional and passes are not given too frequently
 Also, the sorority girls are free to receive men callers at the house on two evenings each week, but always in the reception rooms and parlors on the first floor. Under no circumstances is the caller allowed to remain later than 9:30.
 Even in respect to their men callers l the girls are under supervision, and if young man calls whose character and habits are not all that they should be, the girl is promptly told that she must not permit him to come again. In word, the whole situation re- solves itself into question of the de- meaner of the girls.
 When their inelinations are correct, the matrons say, they do not find the gulations lrksome. The girl whose de- pertinent outside of working hours does not come up to the company's standard soon gets her last pay en- velope.
 That this collegehke life appeals to the best young women is proved by the fact that 70 per cent. of them can play soms musical instrument, sev- eral of than are artists of talent, while among them are numbered two young women who are making their way as writers In the magazine field
 It is a law of the institution In which they work that they must be neatly dressed. Not a solled garment will be allowed, and on account of the fact that they handle expensive silks every hand must be spotlessly clean I When these one thousand sorority girls go to their looms of a morning they look more like the "undergrads' of a great seminary or college than body of working girls, They go to their looms instead of their classes that ie tha Op1xy diffarnnpn