The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-11-17
The Magazines.
EXPERIMENT IN HOUSING FOR
BUSINESS WOMEN.

For over twenty-five years there has
been recognized need for provision in
city communities of protected board
ing houses for young women at work
away from home. The Young Wo-
mems Christian association has main
tanned such places in many cities dur
ing this period and others of a similar
character have been carried on success
fully for long time. They have
been on a charitable and educational
basis administered to serve the needs
Oh girls beginning their working ca
reers on small pay. One chief aim
has been to protect the girls from NOR
al dangers, and so far as the Young
Women's Christian association houses
are concerned there usually has been a
strong evangelical influence brought to
bear to keep these young women in the
path OF virtue. Such houses If sue
cessful are after all schools for train
ing girls safely to lead lives independ-
ent Of the ordinary projections of
home surroundings. They should
therefore yearly graduate a number of
their residents as being fitted both fl
nancially and morally to carry them
selves with considerable degree of
security and success ON a wholly indie
pendent basis. Given a group of such
young women they should represent a |
higher ethical, physical and business
standing than a group of those who |!
have not enjoyed the same opportuni- |
ties. Only in such results should a
subsidized clearinghouse find a rea-
son for it's existence. In Boston these |
subsidized institutions provide gener-
ously for those who are eligible There |
Ii, however, a further problem. 1t con-
Germs the physical quite as much as the
moral strength of those earning what
is regarded fair pay. The need is TO
supply to employed women of all sorts !
OF occupations earning from nine dol |
lars to fifteen dollars a week a means
Of finding comfortable board and room
with parlor accommodations, prefera-
bly, under the same roof. for what they
can afford to pay and yet pay for all |
they get. To provide such an estab-
ltshment to meet this Iced there must .
be household management of the high ,
est grade Of intelligence. In order to
ly large number to provide for to Sc
cure the best results out of wholesale |
rates and methods of buying and to re-
duce the individual proportion in the !
cost OF management itself-Eleanor H. |
Woods in Charities and the Commons.
A MUCH NEEDED PRECEDENT.
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nance against ticket speculation so
drastic and so precise that it bids fair |
to change the conditions of the foot |
ball season. This ordinance provides |
that every ticket to a place of amuse- |
ment shall bear upon its face a state |
ment of its original selling price. If |
any one attempts to dispose of this !
ticket for more than its face value he
shall be subject to a fine of from $40 |
to 500. The ticket spectators in the |
City OF Elms had been planning for |
their customary pickings on Novem-
Der 16. when Princeton plays Yale |
Such an ordinance strikes at the root |
of their trade, and they are banding
together to test the constitutionality |
of the law. If the rule can be en-
loISto, tllSiO WILL ~ SuCI lullS DIS !
profit in ticket selling. with the result |
that the football authorities of the two
colleges will be able, up to the last !
minute, to control the distribution of |!
seats. Under such a system the pub |
lie will not obtain the tickets to the |
exclusion Of the belated but deserving |
graduate. At Cambridge also this year
there are to be some eight thousand
less seats for the Harvard-Yale game !
This move, together with the New |
Haven ordinance, will make for col |
lege sport for college men. Moreover,
IL the new law at New Haven is en-
forced. It may cast over ticket specu-
lation in general a shadow which will
stretch even to the sidewalks of
Broadway.-From Golfers for Novem-
Der Is.
ST. NICHOLAS IN 1908.
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