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 addressed envelopes in a publishing office at six dollars per week. In exactly three days there was an opening in this same office for a filing clerk at five dollars per week, and on the advice of her new-found friend the college girl took it. To-day she is manuscript reader with the same firm and lives in her own little flat. Her employer, talking for the first time with this girl of evident refinement and good social connections, would never have thought to offer her the humble position of filing clerk, which she secured only through her acquaintance with a fellow-worker.

Board at these homes can be secured as low as three dollars per week, if the newcomer is willing to share a dormitory with from three to five other girls. For four dollars and fifty cents or five dollars she can secure a small hall-room that will be hers exclusively. Girls in dormitories have no separate dressing-rooms, and usually two girls must share a locker or closet for clothes. Baths are provided, and the halls and sitting-rooms are heated in winter. The dormitories are not heated. Boarders are governed by somewhat strict rules as to hours of rising and retiring, meals, etc., and no one may stay out later than 10:30, save by special permission.

The Trowmart Inn, Abingdon Square, New York City, Franklin Square House, Boston,