Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27
CARING FOR ART STUDENTS
No Longer Can a Woman Live for
Five. Dollars a Week.
POOR FEEDING MEANS POOR WORK
Gas stove Cooking n Bad Substitute
for the Home TabIe-CIubs
that Help Solve tho
Problem.

NEW YORK, Sept. 5.-Geniuses are pop
uiarly supposed to be more or less indo-
pendent of creature comforts, but few of
the young persons who come from all over
the United States every autumn to study
art in New York are in the genius class.
For the most part they are young men
and women OF average ability, seven
eighths Of whom are bent on becoming
self-supporting as soon as possible, and
the majority of these have hearty appetites
and good digestion-when they arrive.
After three or four years of study in New
York It sometimes happens that their digCs-
ton is rot so good.
One artist haEarded the statement. that
last autumn there were at least 1000 new
corners in The various studios. A teacher
of painting said this estimate was entirely
too low and placed the number of strangers
now studying art In this city, including
beginners. at 5000. and this number. he
thought did not include some who only give
part time to the study Of art while earning
their living at some other sort of work.
Nearly half the total number are women,
only a very small percentage of whom can
afford to spend more than a very modest
sum for living expenses.
Every year for a decade. say those who
haN0 b.NtA CAN ~ NA0 AAoNNNAg NAAh'
problem has grown TO be more serious.
Enfeebled health and digestion and medi-
OGRE work are the results, for the expert
ence of g~eniuses to the contrary, some of
the best instructors in this city maintain
tbs an unoomfortably housed. poorly fed
young man or woman cannot and does not
apply himself as Enthusiastically to his
work or get as good results as does the
, well lodged. well nourished student.
An instructor who did not wish to be
quoted said that a reason why so many
art students preferred to study in Europe
was because the cost of living, even In
Paris, was not more than one-half what it
is in New York. and at that students were
far more comfortable.
At one time students thought IS per week
quite a liberal sum TO spend for room and
board. 81 being oftener the allowance.
There are now plenty Of young women
students who come here prepared to spend
no more than this per week, undeterred
by the tales of soaring prices for rents and
provisions. Perhaps along with these
tales they have read others Of how easy
It is to prepare a nourishing bill OF fare for
50 cents per week or something like that.
At any rate with the optimism of youth
and Ignorance these young women arrive,
determined TO get along somehow, few hav-
ing made any provision for aecommoda-
lions before leaving their native village OF
town. In perspective studio life In New
York looks %aliuring. and young women ex-
peet to tit into a corner OF some picturesque
studio at a nominal price as easily as II
Is done IN novels dealing with European
art circles. With few exceptions their ex-
pectations are not realized.
Said a woman who has been studying
hard in New York for the last three years
1T win save a lot OF time and strength
and acknowledgment II young women stu
dents arriving in New York give up from
the start any idea of going to live IN a
regular studio. 1 had to give up the Idea
because l had no extra money TO spend or
furniture, and the cost OF a furnished stu
do OF even one room put II out OF the
question.
What I finally compromised on was a
tiny room on the top floor OF a boarding
house, for which paid So per week. III
price Of that room now. with board. Il
E.6
The only way I know OF by which q
student can live deeently In New York foI
IS per week Is for her. II she is alone and
can't chum In with another girl. TO hire a