Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-29
KITCHEN IN COMMON
SOLVES HOME PROBLEM
Arranged With Separate Convent.
ences for Occupants Of
Apartment.
From The CHRISTIAN Science Monitor.


Proper housing. which is one Of the
most important problems the business
woman has to solve. is not new Ques-
ton, for 1t has faced her since she made
her initial bow to the business world
and took her place as wage Garner
II is a more serious problem for the
business woman who is alone in a large
city than for a man. as the question
of refinement and desirabiiity are fire.
quently complicated by that of eco
nomics. 1t Is the exceptional business
woman who receives sufficient salary
to enable her to select her home with
out close consideration of the question
of expense.
Comfort. refinement. congenial COM
partnership and surroundings. a con-
venient location, or good transportation
facilities. and at price within the
reach of women, present themselves as
requirements for home. Search Is
continually carried on by thousands OF
women in every city for homes which
ernbody these features. but the average
business woman will say that she has
not succeeded SO far in the undertake
ing.
Seek a Home.
Lodging houses have included some
of the requisite features as q place to
stay. but the homo influence Is entirely
lacking in most houses where the
roomers come and go. constantly NOV
ing from one house to another in the
vain effort to find that which they seek
Various forms of homes" have done
much to solve this question, but there
is large class for whom they have not
met the need. Benevolently inclined
IL.
provide all these requirements, but
there are those who insist that 1t is
quite impossible to get away entirely
from the institutional idea in a large
home" and this is disastrous to real
homelike atmosphere. This every
woman needs to enlarge her vision
and lend its influence to the everyday
question which confront her, and to
welcome her after the work of the day.
1t is not only after her days work is
finished that she wants the home, but
she needs the CHEEKY. homelike in
fuence of a real home to carry with
her through the day.
Kitchenette Suites Popular. j..
kitchenette suites are moon to many,
the one difficulty being in the expense
of high-class apartments, with congo
NAL surroundings. From $50 to SIS for
one room with bath and kitchenette is a
comparatively small price, but is more
than the average woman can pay.
Experts in making up expense budgets
have figured that rent should never ex-
coed one-fourth the entire income. Sta
tistics prove that the majority of wom-
en- do not receive a salary of $50 weekly,
and according to this the outlay for
kitchenete suites as they are built at
the present time would leave too small
an amount to be divided among other
expenses Many women have solved the
problem to a certain extent by two or
three taking a suite of one or two rooms
satisfactory. for it is hard to make a
proper division of work. especially the
cooking and getting of meals.
Built by Woman.
Possibly this Is a question for real
estate promoters to assist in solving,
rather than leaving 1t to philanthropists,
for so many women who have learned
to be Independent and self-supporting
nee from any place which in the slight
est degree savors of charity or philan-
thropy. In one instance a farsighted
woman has solved this problem for go
women and succeeded in making a fine
home for herself with a satisfactory in
como by building a house designed on
unique plans whereby several may oc-
cury a suite together; but the inter-
esting arrangement Is that the Kitchen
cite Is built with separate cupboards and
convenences SO that the cooking may
be entirely separate, which does away
with much of the dissatisfaction ere
quently arising from having all Of the
housekeeping in common.
1t has occurred to those interested IN
the question. among them being some Of
the women themselves, that apartment
houses built on a similar plan would do
much toward giving women who long
for q home and its accompanying In
fuences suitable ones at a price within
the reach of the average business wom-
an. and at the same time be giltedged
investment for the owner.