Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-20

bread like that every day I believe IA
feel like a different person"
The new girl nodded. Mothers
afraid she'll have to stop baking II.
The house where we rent our room
has a coal stove In the kitchen, and
the landlady has let US use 1t. but now
she is going to rent her kitchen and
Wen have to do all of our cooking
over the gas burner"
IT bet your mother will make things
taste good even over a gas burner"
said the girl with the coronet braid
Everything at our clearinghouse is
favored alike"
Then began a discussion and a COM
parison of clearinghouse and light
housekeeping methods. It developed
that they were all living in cheap
neighborhoods.
But it is the only way" the girl with
the coronet braid summed it I'D. I'VE
can't afford anything better" ~
At the noon hour the next day the
new girl had a square of gingerbread
for each of them. and she also had a
suggestion.
Mother says you're wasting your
money; that If we would put our money
together we could rent a fat, have bet
ter rooms, and better food than now"
The coronet braid girl shrugged her
shoulders. Your mother doesn't know
this town Big cities are not like
try places"
But the next day the new girl came
with an itemized account. Mother
has been looking at f. ;" she said
"She can get one with six rooms for the
same price that you girls pay altosether
for you separate rooms"
1t sounded interesting. do you
mean to say" the girl with the ooronet
braid asked, "that we could have q
fat of our own and keep It up II we
would pool our finances"
Mother says you can" said the new
girl.
The outcome of the conversation was
which the new girl and her mother
called home.
The new girls mother gave them GIN
ger cookies and a good cup of coffee.
She was a homely. practical little wom-
an, but very competent.
The more 1 think Of IT," she told
them, "the more I wonder why you
girls can't nave a place you can call
your home. I'll take charge Of It for
my board, and my daughter can pay
her share"
VIVA about furniture?" asked the
girl with the coronet braid.
That's tie problem" said the
mother. Usually I don't believe much
in installment houses. but If there are
six Of you 1t isn't such a risk; all of you
can't lose your places at once, and II
We are going to do this in a co-opera-
tive way we've got to tie ourselves
together for a e I believe we can
afford to pick out a few simple things
and pay for them by the week"
Perhaps you don't know what Il
can to six girls, who had been prac-
tically homeless, TO find themselves at
last n a sunshiny. comfortable apart
ment with a bathroom whose porcelain
bath n shining nickel were a delight.
Perhaps you don't know what IL meant
to those six girls who had eaten board
ing-house fare for years to have we'll
cooked, savory food.
The house-mother laid down several
very definite and decided rules.
You must not expect expensive cuts
of meats" she toll them. You've got
to learn TO eat sensible, wholesome
things. l am going to give you stews
and soups and plain sweets, and II
anybody complains, o can Just re-
member what you would get If you had
to go back to boarding"
The success of this cooperative plan
was great, says the writer in the Phila-
delphia Press. Not every group of girls
can find sue a house-mother, but there
are many older women, untitled for
business life, who will willingly tabe
charge of such a fiat for slight COM
pensation. Why should not more girls
have their own place of sunshiny and
sanitary comfort instead of being poked
off into dark and unpleasant quarters?
Take a pencil and work out the 1nan-
cial aspect some day with fou or FIVE
of your ~co-laborers. You'll be surprised
to see how much income your combined
wages will make, and eve if you cut
down breakfasts to coffee and rolls and
dine now and then on soup meat, you
will have the satisfaction of knowing
that the coffee is good. the butter I'M
tainted and the CUP nourishing. which
is more than can be said of the food
stuffs of the average cheap boarding
house or hotel.