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 Mass., and the Eleanor Homes in Chicago, are managed on a more liberal scale. They are really self-supporting hotels for women at moderate prices, where the girls may and do feel entirely independent. These hotels appeal particularly to the girl who earns between six and ten dollars per week. Single rooms, with breakfast and dinner on week-days, and three meals on Sunday, cost from four dollars and fifty cents a week up. Girls who share rooms with one or more girls secure proportionately lower rates. The price of board and room carries with it many privileges, such as use of a sewing-room supplied with machines, cutting tables, etc., a well-equipped laundry, a gymnasium, parlors, library, etc. Both the sewing and laundry privileges are invaluable, for the out-of-town girl is fairly staggered by the prices charged in cities for both sewing and washing.

The girl who seeks cheap board in a private household, rather than a "home," generally finds herself in wretched quarters, unventilated rooms, mere closets, with no toilet facilities, and a diet of bread, tea, coffee and cheap meats. At three dollars a week she must board in a tenement district, or share a furnished room with several other girls at a cost varying from seventy-five cents to a dollar a week, and make the remaining two dollars cover a week's food.

In the larger cities like New York or Chicago,