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 saleswoman in a millinery establishment, whose manager permits her to leave the store every night at 5:30, and she does not report in the morning until 9. She waits on table at the place where she boards at breakfast and dinner, and pays room rent only. Another girl, who is employed as secretary to an editorial writer, works only from 9:30 to 5, and she keeps house for another business-woman whose hours are much longer. She prepares both breakfast and dinner, does all the dishwashing and marketing, and has a woman come in once a week to do washing and cleaning.

Many girls who desire to avoid both "homes" and boarding-houses write to inquire whether it is not possible to club with other working-girls and rent furnished rooms or a flat for light housekeeping purposes. Such an arrangement can be made, but not when the girl first goes to a strange city. Danger lurks in her ignorance of neighborhoods and in the too sudden intimacy with girls of whom she knows nothing. She should wait until she becomes acquainted with the city and has tested the girls who offer her such a partnership. Girls who have lived in this way say that the household should not include more than four girls, and the ideal arrangement is for two.

To show the out-of-town girl that the task of finding desirable housekeeping rooms in New