Evening journal., 1907-11-21
Modern Woman
Cooperative Housekeeping For
Business Grls-Vanity Hoodoos
Many Feminine Business Ventures.
How to Keep the Maid. . =

Philadelphia may be slow in some
particulars. but as far as benevolence !
is concerned It is second to none. This |
is particularly true OF its philauthro- I
pies for the benefit Of self supporting
women. 1t has its splendid woman's
hotel in the shape Of the Young Wo.I
mems Christian Association building
at Arch and Eighteenth streets, where
moderate prices are charged for excel |
lent service and where the finances are
so managed that there is no margin
OF loss, as is claimed for some OF the
pretentlous and high priced women's
hotels in other parts OF the country.
One Of its latest projects is co-opera-
tive housekeeping for business women.
The Second Presbyterian church has
just opened a fine house adjacent TO
its Settlement building where for
reasonable sum wage earning women
may have a beautiful home. There
are separate tables in the dining room
for each patron or group OF patrons,
and each may have her own gas stove
for cooking in the kitchen. The rooms
are handsomely decorated and artistic
ally furnished. while china and silver
are supplied for the tables.
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Vanity gets women into more trou-
BILE than almost any other quality.
Miss Jane Adams points out that
most Of the reckless investments made
by self supporting women are due to
the Establishments OF INSCRIPTIONS pro-
moters. who appeal to their victims
judgment as business women" Even
the most feather Drained female be-
lieves that she is a person OF penetra-
ton and astuteness, and to have her
own opinions so fatteringly verified Is
enough to induce her to invest IN the
/ proffered stocks, and in the course OF
events she loses. Sound enterprises
do not have to go a-begging for money.
Eggs must be cheaper In the canal
zone than they are here. Miss Ger
/ trude Beeks, who went down to In
vestigate conditions in Panama for the
government, says one man told her
that he had eaten so many that he
shuddered whenever he heard a hen
cackle. Housekeepers who are paying
a half dollar per dozen for eggs long
parted from the hen would be glad II
a paternal government would import
some Of Panama's superiuous fowls
here, where the music of their cackle
might delight a famine stricken pub
lie.
In a recent interview Mrs. Frances
Hodgson Burnett who is living al
Sands Point, on Long Island, rldiculed
the herOines Of old fashioned fiction
Lady Castleton she termed catfish
and Amelia Sedley a "ninny." She
thinks that people would not tolerate
such types nowadays. After all, hu
man nature is pretty much the sam'
in all ages, and in spite Of Mrs. Bur
nett's opinion many people who reaC
and observe cannot see that the petit
coated "cat" and "ninny" are as ye
lost types. They sail across the pages
Of fiction, being most numerous il
those volumes devoted to picturing 81
called "high life" The cat and ninn!
are products Of the idle life and ar
less numerous among busy womel
than in the leisure class. The cure 70
{ "cattishness" and 'ninnism" is to b
found in work.
A fair days work for a fair pay
Mrs. Smiths rule. She does not expec
the cook to be a Waldorf chef nor tn
upstairs maid to do fancy sewing 70
her. But she does ask both to do plai
cooking and plain sweeping and dust
ing well.
After they have been in her house
week cook and parlor maid decide tina
/, there is no nonsense and no deman
for extras on the part of the lady o
the house. They make up their mind
I that it is a good place to stay in, an
: they do their work accordingly.
A bad servant, one who is sloppy 9
I Ill tempered, is not worth botherin
with, but any woman of medium inte
ligence who is neat and appreciate
the right kind of mistress can I
: trained into a good servant who wi
:. stay in a house indefinitely.
SS
L 1t isn't the dull child that is havin
; It hardest in its first year at schoo
r but the child who has never bee
/ taught to obey. Teacher has not muc
time for moral suasion, and the mot
er's darling who doesn't yield to IL
first gentle urging will feel the weigI
q of the iron hand in the velvet GLOW
9 After all, it is the kindest as well I
= the wisest thing for the child for
. mother to teach it the lesson of obed
ence at her knee.
Il 80
Miss Marguerite De Forest Anderso
d a woman who has won success as
a futist advises women who have wea
d lungs to learn to play the cornet, flu
2 or some other wind instrument. 81
s says it has developed her from a de
is cate girl to a young woman of super
e chest development Miss AndersC
IS studied under Albert Fransella, Il
n most celebrated instructor of the fiut
q She has appeared at Windsor cast
"a and at many of the most brilliant CO
= certs in England. Now she has I
n turned to America to be heard in co
70 certs here.
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N The woman who is fondest OF ente
70 taining you with stories OF her pa
conQuests is generally the one who hi