The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-03
MODEL FLAT LIKE
The HOME OF LUXURY.
ORIENTAL RUGS FOR THE BRIDAL,
s. PAIR ON $500 SALARY.
Exhibit Is More the Ideal Of Art and
Beauty than the Dwelling Place for
Young Couple just Going to House
keeping on Modest Salary.

With floors covered with oriental
rugs, with straight-lined, beautifully
designed furniture fitting into just the
right places in every room, with
kitchen SO equipped with improved ap-
planes as to realize women IS dream
Of household convenience, the General
Federation of Women s clubs have
placed an ideal before the young
couple who are expecting to go to
housekeeping on a salary of $75 a
month in a modest fiat which has been
fitted. up for exhibition during the BIZ
ennial convention in the old capitol,
st. Paul.
No accompanying scheme is posted
in the fiat which might suggest to. the
young man how many months savings
from his $75 or 800 salary it would
furnish a fiat in such a way. and pros
pective bridegrooms must figure that
out for themselves 49,. -.
|, It is beautiful, it is artistic; best of
all, it is sanitary, and it moves the
club women who 90 to see it to excla-
, nations of approval, but-and here
| comes the obtruding question. lnvari:
ably it comes: "But-is it practical 2
Can man on $75 or 500 month af-
ner7" :. -
Queries by Club Women. =.
Question follows question from prac
tical women: -. =. -
| "Would couple who expected, tc
live on such a salary have tastes suff
GENTLY cultivated to care for such ar
tistic thingss &c. -. q. s'>. -
eff all these expensive articles are
wedding presents-as some one has
| suggested-Would it not be quite a ta1
on the young people to buy return pres
ents for those who were following theil
example in marryingR. :: ss>,-
"Would a man in a position paying
such salary be likely to have Friends
twho would give him 500 oriental rug
or 1925 gas fixture. or, if the gas fix
ary warrant the expenditure for rentY'
i. III MI. Is It the Ideal Flat7 -.
These are only "a few of the ques
tons which come surging forth to max
one wonder whether this is not the idea
:. fiat for a wealthy young man and hi
Z wife who; have resolved to lead the sin
: pie life, rather than model for a ma
struggling under the burden of mair
tanning home on 800 q month.
Mrs. Walter McNab Miller, chairma
thru having lived so close to cultivate
people on modest salaries in her I'm
versity work, is fitted to speak author
;. Etative1y on the practicability of sue
, furnishing on. such a salary: -
"In my experience in various unive
;, sity towns I have often helped collee
t women who were marrying instructor
to furnish. their little homes, and co
--Ilegef girls to make homelike places
E which to live while going to .schoo
: Then, too, when we were abroad I we
: often interested in little Temporal
homes in the American colony, an
7 1swhile taste Aand inclination cries o,
E Flor Just such artistic and beautiful b
+ longing, the pocketbook. on small i
t;feomess; does not warrant the expend
Ii TW - ss<ss. Trouble in the Future. .3
~ Mrs. Miller was asked if. with Ii,
& j tied education along esthetic lines, pc
r t pie find taste and inclination at GU
Z Ewith the income, there might not