New-York tribune., 1906-09-30
A Utopia for 1000 Girls.
Where Factory Hands Live Like College Studens-Prety
Room and Dainty Fare for So Week.

they would become he next set himself to make
homes for them. The result is that to-day they
live in several fine houses, each as handsome
and as luxuriously fitted up as any college hall
or dormitory. Every two girls have room be-
tween them. is the rule at most Of the East
| ern colleges for women. These rooms have
steam heat, electric light and hot and cold water
facilities. At meal times the girls eat In the
great sorority house dining rooms. the best OF
cooks being provided for them, with uniformed
| mattresses, who serve the food daintily. in
courses.
FEW RULES AND MANY PRIVILEGES.
The hoard is said to be equal to that of any
| 81 a day hotel, and the rooms are superior
Each house, besides being supplied with all the
! modern convenences, has piano rooms. reading
rooms and Libraries. There are tennis courts
and other outdoor diversions Everything IS
! supplied except the clothing the young women
wear. even to the soap. the starch and the blu
ing for the laundry, where the girls do their
own work.
And all these advantages-room board and
the use OF everything that is going-a girl en-
joys for 50 40 week
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 prevailing il the average college girls hall
OF residence, and operating for the same pur-
pose-to keep the moral sense clean
outside doors must be locked at s. 80 at night
ana all nights eXtinguished by 10 o'clock. The
young women are required to be in at the clos
ing hour, but any of them who desires TO attend
an entertainment or spend the evening with
friends, and who expects TO be unable to reach
the mouse before the closing hour, can obtain
pass 1rom the matrOn. The giving OF passes is
ehtrely optlonaI' and passes not given too
frequently. Also. the sorority girls are free
70 receive men callers at the house two eve
hlngs each week, but always in the reception
rooms and parlors on the first floor Under
circumstances Is the caller allowed to remain
Iater than $3.50. Even in respect to their
caIers 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
soVes itself into a question Of the demeanor of
the girls When their inciinations are correct,
ene Hatrons say, they do not find the regulations
Hhsoine The girl whose department outside OF
WORKING hours does not come up TO the COM
pahys standard soon gets her last pay envelope.
APPEALS TO SUPERIOR GIRLS
That this collegollko life appeals to the best
OF young women IL proved by the fact that 70
per oent of thom play some musical instru-
ment' several Of them artists of talent. while
among them arc numbered two young women
wso ao. are making maxim their way as writer's IN the
1t Ia u law of tho institution In which they
work that thoy must be neatly dressed. Not
goiod garment will be allowed, pnd on account
or tho fact that they handle expensive silks
every hand must be spotlessly clean. Whom
these ono thousand sorority girls go TO their
dorRrndR' or great seminary or college, than
body of working girls. They go 70 Their looms
instead OF their oiaHses that is the only differ
once.