The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-06-28
BOARDING HOME
FILLS VITAL need
BIG NEW INSTITUTION TO TAKE
CARE OF STRANGE YOUNG
LADIES WHO COME TO FARGO
HAS PASSED THE EXPERIMENT.
AL sTAeE-AssuREp SUCCESS.

The new Fargo Women's Boarding
Home Is now in fine working order and
everything is running along smoothly
with Miss Best, the matron in charge.
1t was at first deemed something of an
| experiment, but Is now and assured
and permanent establishment.
| The home Is located at 100 Eighth
street south and is a large and COM
| Portable building which contains in
the netghborhood Of twenty rooms and
finished basement. The whole has
been arranged for the comfort and con-
venience of those who will live there.
The house is white in color and has
two great porches, The one in the rear
has been fitted up as a reading and
working room, and is much used by the
women who live at the home.
On entering the house from the front
the first room to the right is the par
lor, but for the present it will be used
as dormitory and there are three or
four single beds therein. Immediately
east of this is the library which opens
onto the summer reading room
Across the hall is the matron's
room, and to the rear of that is the
dining room and kitchen. The upstairs
is devoted to the sleeping apartments
and they are all nicely arranged with
single beds and nicely furnished. The
girls take care OF their own rooms un-
der the supervision of the matron.
Those who were first inclined to look
at the project with some doubt are now
It's warmest advocates The argument
was put up that 1t would interfere in
some way with other established in
stftutions, but such has not been the
case, for the women's boarding house
Is sort of a clearance house for the
other institutions that have for their
object something OF the same kind.
Not single girl who has found a
home at the women's boarding house
has come from any other eity institu-
ton, but all have arrived in the CITY
utter strangers.
AT first the institution was only able
70 take day boarders, but now every
thing Is arranged for dodgers as we'll
SO that at present the house can en-
terrain from fifteen to twenty more
than 1t Is now doing. Each girl has the
right to do her own laundry work in
the basement, as we'll as ironing and
sewing, for the home is equipped with
rooms for each line of work.
Here is an instance of the way in
which the home reached young women
VINO came here as strangers. One girl
came from neighboring city to at
tend one Of the business colleges. She
only remained short time, for she
could not find a suitable boarding
house and her folks sent for her to re-
turn. When they read in The Forum
OF the proposed women's boarding
mouse, they brought her here and after |
an investigation permitted her to re- |
main, and she is now finishing her
course.
Another girl came from wahpetoo
where she had graduated from tn.
Science school there. She came here
70 get employment. found II and was
also directed to this institution where |
she has found home, which she likes |
II people who let their girls come |
here" said Mrs. w. w. Tousley, one |
of the board of directors of the horna |
would only come here and locate thefr |
girls properly there would not be so |
much trouble as there has been. Re- |
gently an elder sister brought her /
younger sister here, where she found
The elder sister wanted /
1 good place for the younger to live
and after making very strict INQUIRIES i
she established her sister, satisfied that
ne had a good home. The girls are
all pleased with the institution. They
make their own rules. They /
IAN have their gentlemen friends cali |.
ma we try to make everything as i
1omellke as possible. The highest
price paid by any girl In the inst,-
ution is $4.75 week, and this includes
BOARD and lodging, place to do their
aundry and sewing and we think every
of home. I wish you could
zee the home Of an evening when the
girls are out in the porch 1t is a
'ery homelike picture. Every young
woman who has come to our institution
has attended some church at least once
IN Sunday We do not compel this
by any means, but the girls soon get
% understand that it is better for them
% do so.
Miss Best, In addition to her other
is nurse and since we
opened the home at least one young
girl who had an operation at one of the
hospitals has been nursed back into
good health She was
n bla fn on fo %at