The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-29
OBJECT TO BACHELOR GIRLS.
MEN, INSURANCE AGENTS AND
LANDLORDS IN A PLOT.

varied Complaints About PetticOats. Gas
stoves and Bric.a.Brac That Drive Sell
Supporting Women TO Live In Abodes
That Are Picturesque but often queer.
wsIt seems to me- said the woman YEARLY
sthat. now that the bachelor girl and the
woman who works for her living have
become recognized factors in the life oil
New York. they should be provided with a
place in which to live; a reasonable place
and comfortable.
"The bachelor girls demands are NOT
e1orbitant. She is easily satisfied. A
room Inc an alcove within easy distance
OF her work-that is all. She doesn't
demand a kitchen. She has even been
known to do without a hath effect.
AN she wants is a place to hang up her
hat and her japanese umbrella and to plant
her couch. Yet it is getting to be tina. these
are denied her. / know a dozen giris who
will be homeless on May 1.
They must store their furniture, their
precious bits they have taken such pains
to accumulate and live. heaven knows
how, through the summer months. Ger
tainly not in boarding houses, though.
After her taste of studio freedom she
may choose a fatboat, perhaps, or maybe
a tent, but never again for the bachelor
girl the boarding house.
1T used to be that many Office buildings
rented studios to girls to live in, but 1t Is
not so any more. She is getting to he a
hunted creature, the bachelor girl.
Men who occupied adjacent offices com
planned of the fitting of petticoats through
the halls and up and down stairs. 1t gave
too great an air of femininity to the build
ing, they said. Then. too, the little cooking
the bachelor girl does, the making of her
breakfast and luncheon on her little gas
stove. %endangers the property, hey de-
clared.
@She might set the house afre, so tho
insurance companies step in 70 GUST her
upon that plea. They charge higher rates
on account of the bachelor girl.
"And so she has been driven to make her
home above stables, in Easements, in at
tics, in strange, odd and peculiar places,
in hooks and %cIannies in which very few
other people would think of living. She
is supposed to live in these strange places
on account of the natural eccentricity of her
: artistic nature. for the bachelor girl ls
very often an artist. but that il not the real
reason. She lives in them because they
are cheap. Comparatively cheap, that +.
for she pays more for a room over a stable
in the heart of the city than she would for
a little fiat in Harlem.
There il one artist who lives over Il
barroom; a long way over. at the very top.
After you get to them her rooms are
beautiful-it was at one time a very hand
some old house-but as for the entrance
and stairs not so much can he said. The
~saloonkeeper below has a lease OF the line
old house. He eltices peopiH into the
studios under pro mise to re1ovate the
stairs. When they are safely in, he goes
on selling drinks.
People nave come and gone. famous
artists have lived in the studios and climbed
the stairs and wept over them. AID left on
account of them, but the aaloon keeper
goes right along selling drinks, The artist
tests her friends by their climbing OF her
stairs.N