The National tribune., 1909-04-29

and stairs are Kept clean, and your room
gets a thoro sweeping and busting at least
once week? In every city there is "A
small army OF boarding people. and il
they should give vent to the more or less
pent-up Utica of their feelings there would
be such lamentings heard in the air. as
would drown all other sound. 1t would
seem as if caring for these people might
be made a very good, profitable business,
quite as dignified and self-respecting as
any other 1t would seem to be busi-
ness for which women were specially
filter, and vet this cannot be the case CT
there would not be so many wretchedly
kept boarding houses in every city and
town in the country. And it is not the
cheap boarding-houses only that fall under
this ban. Not by any means. One gets
more of a variety in the way of food,
and little better furnished room in n
high-priced house, but it is an exception
to the rule if the food is really well
cooked and the room really properly taken
care of. A woman suffering with indi-
gestion goes to her doctor. Madam. you
must eat no vegetables that have not been
cooked thoroly." "Why. doctor, that is
impossible: i board, and the vegetables
are never half-cooked-" And the doctor
replies: IF some of these reformers
would only take up this question of the
boarding house table they would flatten
be a mighty good piece of work" Of
course the reason most boarding-houses
are so unsatisfactory lies in the women
who keep them. As general thing this
vocation is monopoliZed by women who
have been pushed into it by dire necessity,
by those lacking in business ability energy,
and resourcefulneSs. who have probably
always been poor or Indifferent managers
of their own homes. 1t is rare that n
mp boarding house keeping from a choice
as means of earning her living. Society
looks down lust little bit on the boarding
house keeper, and that is one reason why
an able, efficient woman would rather en-
gage in some other enterprise. But there
would be money in the business if it were
properly conducted and it does seem
strange too. that in this enlightened
Twentieth Century, when the reformers
awake o. nights to think what evil they
can next attack. that the army of suffer
ing boarders should have been so over
looked. A chain of scrupulously clean,
simply furnished boarding houses where
the hall bedrooms were heated and gas
jets low enough to read by, where soiled
tHblecloth or napkins were unknown. and
where the food was simple but nourishing
and properly cooked, would pay well as 4
would be filled to their utmost capacity
with a waiting list. Think what it would
mean to the refined working woman. who
is obliged to board. TO live in house
where the nalls and stairs were immaculate
where her own room, tho small. had the
and other toilet articles washed
every day. where her toweIrack showed
TWO clean towels each morning, where per-
feet order reigned and not speck of
lust was anywhere visible, and to sit |
lown to a dinner which consisted of per- |
laps but four or FIVE things but which |
we're all perfectly cooked, made to taste |
rood, and served attractively. Don't you
suppose that house would always be filed?
Well, should say so.
American girls as successful opera sing-l
rs are forging right to the front. Oscar
iammerstein. who ought to know. saws
hat there is better material in the
american girl for this profession than any
ther. Given the voice. she has deep
motional temperament and power of dra-
ma tic expression seldom found in a like
egree in women of other nationalities, |
md added to this she has something which |
generally the Others lack. and that is
he pluck TO work and study. Formerly |
IN American girl ON the operate stage |
had to give a foreign twist to her name |
and have a European reputation before
to appear at home. but now our
singers do nos think of changing their
names. and while most of them do make
their debuts on some European stage, that
is no longer considered absolutely essential
TO success. Few people realize what it
costs to make prima donno. Miss Ge-
aldne Farrar. one of the bright particular
stars of the Metropolitan Opera Company. |
who was a Melrose, Mass, girl. of parents |
too poor to give her the necessary musical |
education. borrowed the money for this |
md has Just made her last payment The |
oan was $4,000.
G. Stanley Hall, President of Clark |
University. and former Professor of PSF
chology. says juvenile crime, especially |
among boys, is on the increase in this |
country. President Hall proposes a num-
ber of possible remedies for this deplora-
Die state of affairs, and among these he
places the good old-fashioned scolding and
logging first and foremost. Children he
thinks, are brought up far too indul-
gently and carelessly. Mothers slipper
and fathers stout stick, which did such |
good work a few generations ago, have en- /
hrely disappeared from the family en-l
courage. Parents boast that they never
whip their children, and from the way
most children act this can readily be be- |
ieved. Certain it is that the modern |
IDEAS as to the punishment of children
have not resulted in any better-mannered. |
more satisfactory, or dutiful children |
than those raised up under the old rules |
Ind regulations. Most people think tn, |
children of a few generations ago were
better behaved and more satisfactory, and |
President Hall says that they have been |
-apidly growing worse with each gdlera-
ion. ana that now they are about as bad |
Is they can be. The good old-fashioned |
colding wasn't agreeable, and neither was
he whipping. They clouded the domestic
kies considerably for a period, but. ex-
ept IN very few, rare instances they !
lid the child lots of good. Children may
lot have had quite the same kind of affec-
Ion for their parents in those DAYS as
hey do now, but they respected them a
ot more, and they worked for them
harder and more willingly if occasion de-
handed it. DIR. Hall puts great stress
upon religion as a remedy for this bad
less among our boys and girls. Morality |
books" should be used by our educators
and more religious training-the old |
kind-should be given at home |
If the newspapers are TO be believed |
Admiral Dewey is NOT at all in sympathy |
with the stiff linen collars. masculine |
and generally mannish get-up of |
what is called the "Tailormade girl"
lnd the big, heavy shoes that our athletic
girls, especially, march around in, he finds |
unattractive. No. what the |
Admiral likes TO see womankind decked out
N is fluffy rufies, ruchings and ribbons
n pretty shoes and stockings peeping ont |
rom delicate embroidered or lace-trimmed
Detticoats, and all that sort of thing
which is associated in his mind with the
eternal feminine. Well, il takes all kinds