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 part of the daughter's living expenses for at least three months after she goes to the city.

Earnest women in every large city are trying to cope with the social problem of the underpaid girl in store and factory. They are building homes and investigating boarding and rooming-houses, but where there are dozens of self-supporting hotels for men who must live for a song, in only a few cities have hotels for working-women been placed on a business basis. As yet they are semi-charitable institutions, so managed that they appeal neither to the girls who must seek them as a refuge nor to the citizens who are asked to support them. And when I add that $3.50 per week is the minimum charge for board and lodging at these "homes," excepting a few in New York City which are conducted by the Roman Catholic and Episcopal sisterhoods, the country girl and her mother should have a very fair idea of how hard it will be to make the five-dollar-a-week salary meet current expenses.

Fortunate is the out-of-town girl who has relatives located in the city where she goes to seek work. She should communicate with them, and, if possible, make some business-like arrangement for boarding in their home. This is an important step for two reasons. First, when the out-of-town applicant announces to a superintendent of employees that she is living with