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

eyes as il she had never heard 1t before, but
OF course she had.
There are rules Of etiquette to burn at
these dances, for you need not think that
merely living in the house with another girl
means that all bars and barriers are LET
down when il comes to handing around
your gentleman friends. There are rings
within rings and cliques within cliques,
and on the of nights OF dancing, when
gossip sits down comfortably in the corrl-
dors with the late bedgoers, as likely as
not you will hear the usual i hear and
they do say" but, as another one OF the
crowd remarked, it's no worse than a
boarding house.
A young man who comes TO a dance
at Trowmart Inn cannot eliminate the
classy introduction n ask any glrl ne
fanoies 10 take a turn. II his friend doesn't
happen to know the charmer and there
ia no one OF the committee OF arrangements
about TO make the omission good the best
thing for him TO do Is to come again and not
get weary. .
There was a case which is spoken OF
with hushed voices In which a certain
man had been paying attention, real serious
attention, 10 a black haired girl, a perfect
beauty too, and he switched of on one OF
the dance nights to an out and out Titan,
and the black and fish ha We not spoken since
because, as the black haired girl said, and
her friends said too, who was IL introduced
them?' And if they weren't regularly
introduced, as seemed very likely from
circA ~nstantial evidence, then the fish
had thrown the shadow OF odium on what
have always been considered very recherche
affairs ever since the inn opened a year
ago last August. As for the fish and her
friends, they just toss their heads when
anything Is said and murmur PROVINCIAL
whatever that may mean. 90,
Il il only on special occasions that paid
musicians add TO the JOY of the dancing
evenings. Generally one Of the girls plays
for the rest, and when weary fingers refuse
further good offices there Is always the
obIiRing pianola, which has never grown
weary in service. is always just as good
natured. just as much in tune, and II its
RI pertoire is rather limited makes up IN
perseverance, what il lacks in originality.
One OF the fellows who come plays simply
beautifully, by ear too. II he hadn't been
a floorwalker he would have been a second
Damrosch or Campanini, for when he gets
his hands on the keys the way they rattle!
And so good natured, too, a born musician
II there ever a one.
When in the interval that exists between
certain dances you get IN a quiet corner
with one Of the patrons Of the place she
will tell you cOnfidentially, not to he pub
lished, OF course, that the Trowmart is not
and never was intended 20 be a charitab BILE
institution. PhilRnthTopic IL is. but that's
a different matter, which Is proved by the
fact that IL has not yet begun TO pay the
running expenses, which il nothing at all,
for Il Is still young as institutions go. In
time IL il sure TO do that as well as TO pay
fair interest on the 1900 600 originally in
vested and the Sl5, 900 Of a second install
ment which represents the cost Of the
annex that has been called for by the popu-
lsrity Of the house.
Really popular? Well, It surely is, for
1t fills a long felt want. Most OF the girls
who come here are from the country know
ing little about city prices end how much
you can get for q certain u N
Lots of them have gone first Of all to
boarding houses and taken miserable little
hall bedrooms up three or four flights
Of stairs, cold in winter and hot in summer
paving six or seven dollars, and looked
down on by the hennish minded women who
think because you don't live in the first floor
front you have no social position and not a
rag Of reputation. Lodging houses have
sent their n time inmates here too, for
with gas, heat and the incidentals there is
no economy in living that way.
Here at the Trowmart q girl can get a
good sized room for s. q week. which in
cludes service and two meals a day. For
$3.50 she can share a room Of larger size.
No luncheon is served, because by cutting
that out the time Of the mattresses may be
utilized for taking care OF the house, eI-