The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-01-03


living more or less transiently, without
or away from family ties. This estimate
includes the girls who are studying IN
the various trade schools, art schools,
and musical Conservatives, as well as
the great bulk of feminine wage earners,
the proper housing Of whom at reasonable
expense has been one Of the problems OF
past years, and is now being worked out
along many lines.
An interesting tenement colony OF self
women on the upper East side.
on East Sixty-fifth street. is demonstrat-
ing the idea Of the Womans Municipal
League of New York, that working girls
may live in that city IN homes of their
own al q cost no greater than living in
han bedrooms demands. Here bookkeep-
ers. clerks, newspaper workers. stenOg-
raphers, trained nurses, shirt-waist max
eTs. social workers. musical students in
terror decorators, dressmakers' assistants,
and students from the nearby Rockefel-
Ter Institute keep house IN two, three, and
four room flats. tucked in among regular
bona fde families, the presence of the
latter being expected 10 retard any at
mosphere Of femininism. such as is likely
TO prevail In a woman's hotel.
At a rental Of from Sl.S7 to s2.75 each
week these residents enjoy complete
homes with steam heat. gas. ranges.
stationary tubs, steam laundry dryers.
and other modern conveniences. Many
OF the girls prefer 10 do their own cook
ing, but for those who do not, there IS
always the cooperative dining-room.
where luncheon may he obtained for p
cents and dinner for 40 cents
An ingenious device is the receptacle
used by many OF the girls FOR carrying
cooked food from the dIning-room TO
their own little dining-rooms. there TO be
served IN privacy. This receptacle porce-
lain lined. has a place for the hot soup in
the bottom. the meat and vegetables
coming next, with the dessert on view
at the top The food Is good. For private
dinner parties and luncheons, there IS a
special small dining-rooms, Of which the
residents may have the use for nom
inal sum-
Walking into one Of these two room
fats in which two girls live. each paying
$3.50 a week. the visitor finds himself
apparently IN a charming little red study
apparently. because though the room
is undeniably charming, and little and
red, It is not a study. but a kitchen. The
red burlap-hung screen uncloses to reveal
the gas range. the chintZ-lined glass doors
of the bookcase open 20 disclose rows OF
dishes and cooking utensils. and thus
attractively CARRIED deceit reigns over
the room. The second room, with two
couch beds, serves as sitting. living. and
sleeping room.
Truly ''palatial'' in this city OF hall bed
rooms are the $50 q week four room
fiats-four rooms and a bath--such as IS
occupied by three girls who have achlev-
ed success professionally. and have found
this the best substitute for a home to be
had
''It IS only S16o week from each OF
us" exclaimed one OF the three. And
! just see the home we have"
And she proudly led the way through
a parlor, a delft living room. which turned
out 10 be a Dutch kitchen. a sitting room
and one bona fde bedroom
Think of the price of all this" she
said enthusiastically. TT IS not so much
that the price is cheap, but that you get
I so much for the price,
! The tenement is rapidly gaining favor
with the average earning girl, and every
Thursday afternoon and evening MIS-
/ Gertrude Barnum. OF Z -oman's NIu
nicipal League, who lives in one Of tn,
apartments, IS kept busy showing pros
| pective tenants these miniature homes
I Tho demand has been greater than tn,
J accommodations would satisfy, and tn,
Junior League has Just subscribed $3.50 90
! for the erection of a new fiat building OF
| Seventy-elghth street, for which plan
are being worked out.
Akin TO these uptown tenements ar,
the apartments for seIf-supporting womeI
and girls in the Phipps Building OF
Thirty-first street. Down here two younl
women are putting a pleasurable varia
| ton into their rather mOnotonous routin'
OF life By their maner Of home living.
Having apartments neighboring. the,
/ A0Ab AA2 llD play AlAb AtDSLtSS dilu entertain
| Ing each other. One week one lock
up her habitation and is the guest Of he
/ friend, who cooks and does the househoI,
work. and the next week il is the turf
/ Of the other. Each declares that tn
| arrangements have entirely made owe
what was their New York existence.
Typical of the woman's hotel intendet
TO harmonize with small incomes is Trow
mart Inn at Abingdon Square. Built L
accommodate women and girls earning
less than SO a week, it provides for bot
transient and permanent occupants, beini
| conducted on the same principles as
mans hotel-no questions asked, fire.
coming and going.
OF a distinctively different type and rul
on entirely different principles is tn
institutional home, which IS found in com
paratively great numbers The Clara q
Hirsch Home on Sixty-third street, be
tween Second and Third avenues
founded and subsidized by the lat
Baroness de Hirsch. of England, house
200 girls, predominantly Jewish, who ar
studying in the trade schools Of the city
sewing apprentieeships, and. in rar
cases, regularly employed.
For 50 a week all living expenses ar
paid. The girls eat In a common dining
room. have individual bedrooms. hav
free access to the big library, where Their
is a circulating library of books. news
papers, and magazines, and may dane
together every evening; there Is FIRE
l instruction by a dancing teacher for thos