New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
In the CifY's Lodging House
First Woman Doctor Appointed to Look After rluni
cipaI Guests Enjoys the Experience.

come down. doctor, an see Il she ought to
be passed."
Not II the other women are to get any
sleep tonight" pronounced the doctor. as
she surveyed the applicant The applicant
didn't care whether she was passed or not.
She wore something resembling the wreck
of a straw table mat down over one ear,
and il took two attendants to restrain her
inclination to break into song. The fat po-
iiceman summoned to take her away must
have had lively time before he got her
to the station house.
Many of these women will drink, but
few badly as that one" said DR.. Jones.
as she led the way back TO her Office did
you take any whiskey to-day?" she stopped
TO ask woman just settling herself under
the blankets on one of the dormitory beds.
Just nip" said the woman lifting a
pair of honest blue eyes 1T was that cold
an rainy-Hke outside. lost me job in a
restaurant. an We been trampin' around
three days tryin' to find another, an 1
couldn't pay me room rent
Some of them VIII drink, and it's not
much wonder, but, after all, they're, just
women, like ourselves" said DR.. Jones, as
she passed on. Their bodies. when they
are bathed, smooth and white as
on their old rags again-fumigated. to be
sure. but the same old rags That's what
makes them different. II only people would
send US their cast-or clothes-underwear,
shoes. dresses, anything-and trust us to
give the things to the right women. 1t
would do end of good. am convinced
many woman who takes refuge here
would get work much more easily il she
had clothes that she would look decent In.
Il believe in the power of Dress" added
the doctor, who herself wore the trim
NEST OF tailored suits and the neatest of
shirtwaists.
Ones garb affects others. and it af-
fects ones own feelings. Who can be self
respecting in rags? 1 couldn't. And these
women are quick TO notice dress. One
night l came down in a dinner gown-Id
dlned with friends and hadn't time to
ehange-and every woman here had some
thing to say about 1t. Seems to me you're
dressed uD tonight they told me-
Dr- Jones, who came here not long ago
from chicago, where she worked so hard
that she broke down and had to seek
change, is q slight little woman with a
lot of brown hair, deep dimples when she
smiles and three grown children living
back In the West. Perhaps what has kept
Relncarnationist, and when a poor little
woman who has been deserted by her hus-
band comes to the lodging house with two
or three children clinging to her skirts the
doctor takes good deal of comfort think
ing of the dire things that will happen to
that husband in his next incarnation
At eleven o'clock she locked I'D her Office
ano went away to the Ansonia A sleepy
GOD bless ye, DOCTOR" from q woman
whose cough she had been treating, fol-
lowed her through the dormitory. I've
had more God bless you's' since / came
mere" laughed the doctor. Isn't II a
pity. she added, that more homeless wo
men don't know Of this place? Here are
nifty beds-room for n hundred beds-and
only twenty women. Over in the mems side
four hundred waits at least take refuge
every night OF course. homeless men out
number homeless women greatly. but I am
sure there are many women In New York
who If they knew of this place would be
glad to come here. They get plenty of
bread and tea for supper and a good
breakfast. besides beds. A woman may
come three times in a month. but if the
case is sad one the rules are waived, and
she is kept as long as there is need"