The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-03-29

the top floor, not a single picture 10 rest
the eyes. and after q girl has been in a
business office all day she gets tired Of mere
nestness. A library was started but there
was no money for a librarian and the books
from the circulating library got lost; even
the magazines are taken away and not
/ returned.
"On dance nights, when the girls look
80 pretty and there would he such an at
t~ractive setting IL only there we're a few
palms or u few nice engravings on the
wall or briC-a-brac or something TO act
as background, We are awfully conscious
that II hasn't the right kind of honey air.
but what can we doY There was a sub
scription started, ! believe, for a rubber
plant, but il died out, for with an average
wage Of fl2 a week there isn't much margin
for aIticles OF that kind, and lots Of the girls
send money home
The decorations lacking in the house
proper are more than made up in the sleep
ing apartments. They are very girlie
rooms with lots of photographs, college
Dennants and souvenirs Of summer vacl-
tons. All are neat az a row Of pins.
On the way the guide takes occasion
again to call attention to the Chinese eI-
clusion policy Of the Trowmart. No man
is ever allowed to put his profane foot
above the parlor floor the house doctor
10 a woman. all the clerical force are femi-
nine. One Of the girls said that she had
heard another girl say that the position
Of hotel clerk is the only one a woman
can hold and ask all the questions she wants
TO without being accused Of being inquisl
tive, The management complains bitterly.
II Ia understood. that there are no skirt
wearing plumbers.
After taking a tour through the upstairs
corridors, admiring the spiok and span
rooms and the porcelain bathtubs, Il II quite
natural that you should get back again 10
the starting point and inquire anew in re-
gard to the matrimonial facilities Of the
place. Any girl that can live with . chum
and keep her bissected room IN ouch a state
OF order and attractiveness certainly needs
no other certificate TO prove her fitness for
the role Of housekeeper in a Har.sm nat.
As has been intimated, this is a sore sub
jeot, for a while ago some one was unkind
enough to write up the Trowmart as a matri-
monial agency, and since then members OF
the Fourth Estate have been looked upon
askance. As one Of the roomers remarked
q story like that is enough to scare all the
men away. Matrimonial agency, indeed
just to show how absolutely absurd the
idea is abe takes you around to show you
the ounningest arrangement Of little sitting
rooms, each one Of them plenty large enough
for a couple, which extend along the corri-
dor on the dancing room floor. These are
in great demand on the soiree evenings "a
we'll al other times.
Once in the history OF the house a CIR
entered one Of them to ask the girl inside a
question, but the place got 30 crowded that
the mistake has never been repeated, and
incidentally that answers the question OF
~ohaperon az well, for il the architect Of the
house did not take ohaperons into account
and the mistake was not remedied by the
philanthropist who built il and named il
after the first syllable Of his wife's name