The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-03-05
PARLOR TO AID CUPID'S WORK
 IN NEW YORK
Bronx Apartment to Have Spooning Place on Every
 Floor.

New York, March 3. - The com nunity parlor and entertaining room is here at last. At least, it is about to arrive, according to tenants of a Bronx apartment house who say that the landlord has informed them that there will be one par1or or entertain ing room for every floor; 1t matters not how many families live on floor.
 How the landlord plans on remod- el1ing his present houses is not dis closed, but he says that in the two new buildings he is now erecting the community par1or plan will be car ried out In spite of the eact that this movement, if accepted by other land lords and tenants, will be a hard blow for the manufacturers of parlor furniture tenants believe that it will tend to reduce rentals, for in many Of the apartments parlors are thing of the past.
 Now it no longer will be necessary for Miss Bronx to meet her gentle man friend in the hall, with her hat and gloves on, all ready to spend the evening at a movie or a dance hall, for she will be able to invite him into the community parlor. This will enable her to show him off, to the rest of the tenants on the floor.
 Chance for love making? Sure! The tenants of this one house say that the landlord will provide for this by hay ing numerous little cozy hooks in this
 one big room. It is the plan of the landlord to furnish this one room on each floor himself, and he promises
 to make it so attractive that people will bid for his apartments.
 Few young men ever get a look at 4IIaiT cri,~ fT~ia i,, RTo-
 tan, Bronx or Brooklyn. But with the community parFor it will be different,
 for this room, especially on certain nights, will be reserved for the young | people of the floor, and on those l nights the mothers will be unable to sit around gossfping. Neither will fathers be able to sit there smoking g and talking politics.
 These rooms are to be for the benefit of the young people of the house, and it is possible that where there are three or four young women living on the same floor they may be 1 able to form some kind of a working agreement whereby when some one' calls on a certain night they | may have the parlor all for them
 selves from seven to eight. Then they 1 will take a stroll while the other ] young woman has her hour.
 ! True, neighborhood movies and 1 dance halls will suffer, but the march 1 of program will not be stayed, and 1 it is the impression in The Bronx
 that father, who usually pays the rent, will welcome this innovation | because it will mean one less room 1 for which he must pay rent. And the
 tenants agree that it will serve to ] introduce again into The Bronx the
 spirit of he1ne life that was rife when l East 149fh street and Third avenue ] was only cross roads.
 The high cost of living several
 years ago banished the boarding house par1or, which in it's palmiest
 days: was an admitted failure due to
 the fact that there never was a 1 boarding house with rooms large | enough to accommodate the boarders
 and their friends. Since then the ma l joritySsof New York's ''courting' has
 been done either in the subway the l movies or the dance haIl.-
 Mothers and fathers in The Bron1 believe that this movement vii
 spread. rapidly, and that while few 1 landlords will be willing to go to the l expense of remode1lipg present build 1 ings, that future plans for apart
 ments will incorporate the com
 munfty parlor, one to the floor.