The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-02
LOOKING FOR BOARD.
hat Girl Who Went to New Tor
 to Work Discovered

ldL Glrl WnO W6uI lO 4NeW AOIh
 to Work Discovered
 Girls, if you are coming to New York
 live, don't expect that in board lg house you will have the nice large
 ght sunny room with your white lace
 overlet over pink on your pretty bed,
 our favorite books, pictures, and other
 aings which you have at home, and
 5hch are dear to a maiden's heart lou are coming here to work, perhaps n a small salary, and some way
 money doesn't seem to procure as
 much here as a like amount does in
 mall town. Of course, you will come
 New York if you have set your mind
 2pon it, so come along; the more the
 nerrier.
 You believe that your position as
 ,tenographer at $6 a. week which you
 ire now filling with credit at home, is going to develop into $50 a week one as private secretary; or perhaps your voice which you are now trying out in church choir, or at amateur musicales, is going to win for you place in grand opera. You are firmly convinced on that, but aside from your dreams and aspirations regarding your
 future, your first step upon arrlVlng
 in the metropolis is to procure sult-
 able boarding house, and unless you
 have friends to take you in, 1t IS going
 to be a very tired and dsconsolate girl
 who will return from search for one,
 if you go about it aimlessly 1ou
 won't fall into the private secretary
 ship or grand opera position rlght
 away. and perhaps the position you
 secure will bring to you say from $o
 to S1O a week. So it may be of some
 assistance to you to relate the ex-
 perience of one young woman of ten
 der years who came to New HorK 10
 reside. She was very self-relient ana
 wanted to hunt up her own boarding
 house, and acting upon the advice ot
 an acoafntance she visited an agency,
 of which there are many, and secur-
 ing the addresses of several places she
 started out on her quest
 The first place visited was in East
 seventeenth Street, Manhattan, and
 after climbing five flights of stairs she
 groped her way in pitch dark nall until she felt door, rapped upon IL
 and it was shortly opened by woman
 who inquired her errand.
 "oh, yes" she said; T have one
 room vacant just wait a moment please, and I will show it to you' And the door was closed in the callers face, to give the landlady chance to tidy up the room bit, per haps. In a few minutes the door or the opposite side of the hall was
 opened and by tight squeeze the young woman was enabled to enter the
 room. The room shown was small one in an apartment, just large enough for a cot and a small dresser. The present occupant, who was to leave al the end of the week, had her little fla' trunk under the cot, the only place
 for it if onewould desire a chance t( walk around,
 Now. this room is $2.75 g week without board and $6.5O with board, said the landlady and my girls have home here. They can stitch on my machine, wash in my tubs and max \ themselves right at home. The mer are all il the apartment on the othel side. When first started in this busi' ness I decided to take only men, ou some of the lads l took in were ae- noisy and I didn't exactly consider them just the sort of companions l de sired for my own two sons. All right you can let me know if you decide Good morning
 A The next address was one of thu women's clubs. This particular clul ! is the private enterprise of prom nent society woman and upon enter fl ing the reception room on the frs floor. the bare but clean appearance q at once reminded the searcher O 1 boarding school. The floor is covered by a rug of dull colors, and the wall 4 are bare, excepting framed set 0 savings" which, if 1t denotes th' \ teachings extended to the inmate 4 must surely be productive of som good.
 8 These sayings" were:
 S Ten Things for Which No One Ha M Ever Yet Been Sorry. N For doing good to all
 k For being patient toward everoody' @ For hearing before JuuBlns. A For thinking before speaking. A For holding an angry tongue. M For being kind to the distressed. M For asking pardon for all wrongs a For speaking evil of none. @ For stopping ears to tale bearers I For disbelieving most of the i'll re A ports.
 A When the matron came in she aske
 her caller to go on a tour of inspection N of the house. In the arrangement Q
 the rooms of the dormitory idea c A boarding school is suggested In som H of the rooms five six and seven bed N are placed. Each occupant has X chiffonier. Everything was spottless N neat and clean, and the prices were R and s3.5O a week for room and boar R The front door is locked at 1O:SO ever H night. and at 11;9O the lights must b A out. All the young girls living at thi M house have been accustomed until re
 cently to a mothers care, and the ma - tron assuming the responsibility C
 taking the mothers place is very strlf ,, as to references.
 'N A boarding house in the down tow To 1-IA nF