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Protestants with excellent recommendations are received in the home. Here, as in most institutions of similar character, girls losing their situations and unable to pay regularly are helped through the idle period, unless they show disinclination to seek for work.

St. Ann's Mission also has a Girls' Friendly Society, and three other branches of the society have been established in Brooklyn since 1886.

The Young Women's Christian Association, though somewhat overshadowed by the prominence of its New York sister organization, proceeds on the same general plans, and accomplishes results of great importance.

The gift to the city by a private individual of a complete and finely equipped industrial school will undoubtedly be of great benefit to the working population.

Five working-girls' clubs in Brooklyn are active members of the Association of Working-Girls' Societies of New York, and share all its advantages. Wisely scattered in different indigent quarters, the South Brooklyn Club, the Central Club, the Red Hook Club, the Prospect Heights Club, and the Brooklyn Progressive Club are all helping to lighten the burdens of the working girl, to increase her efficiency, and to elevate her character. In all these clubs earnest, intelligent, and cultivated women acknowledge the close bond of sisterhood with rough, ignorant girls, and by tact, patience, and gentle influence develop the best that is in them. The club rooms are open nearly every night; good books are to be had from the library; lessons in useful employments are given at bare cost of materials. In some of the clubs English and penmanship are taught. A cooking course teaches how to buy food in the market and how to prepare it for use. A course of instruction in dressmaking enables the girls to greatly reduce their expenses for clothing. The girls are so ardent in these reforms that their employers often note the improvement, and though generally opposed to organizations among their employés, they favor these clubs, and some employers contribute liberally toward their support.

Buffalo. The report of the Women's Christian Association for the year 1887 states that its home has been filled to its utmost capacity and applicants have been turned away. No information as to numbers, price of board, etc., is afforded by the report referred to. The association began its work seventeen years ago with but a few dollars in its treas ury. to-day it has real estate approximating $60,000 in value, and its course has been marked by steady advancement.

The Women's Educational and Industrial Union, modeled after the Boston society of the same name, is a non-sectarian organization, having for its object the educational, industrial, and social advancement of women. In the certificate of incorporation the means of accomplishing these objects are set forth as follows:

1. By the establishment of a reading room and library.

2. By maintaining a registry for the higher employments of women.

3. By organizing and maintaining classes in educational and industrial branches.

4. By assisting poor women to collect debts and to establish their legal rights.

5. By assisting the worthy poor.

6. By giving courses of lectures on various topics, and social entertainments.

7. By the establishment of a gymnasium for women.

These means have been employed and have been productive of much good. The Union owns a large and commodious building, suited to its requirements. This organization has only recently been incorporated (May 15, 1885), and such progress has already been made as warrants belief that the scope of its labors will constantly widen and the sphere of its usefulness enlarge.

Chicago. The Protective Agency for Women and Children was established in 1886 by the Women's Club. Its main object is the protection of woman's purity and honor, and the punishment of those who assail it; but it has also devoted itself to the work of collecting debts owed to working women, and of protecting them from swindling and extortion. During the first year of its existence the agency examined one hundred and fifty-six complaints of all kinds, fifty-one of which were claims for money, chiefly wages, aggregating $992 89. It has been quite successful in all branches of its work, and in the collection of debts reaches to the class of small claims which an attorney ordinarily would not care to undertake. The Protective Agency also designs establishing in the near future a loan fund, for the benefit of worthy families or individuals who are in temporary need of such assistance, and who, under existing conditions, are obliged to pay usurious interest for money.

The Women's Christian Association has a home at No. 288 Michigan avenue, where girls may obtain good accommodations for $3.50 to $4 50 per week, not including washing. Women over thirty are rarely received. Transients pay $1 per day. The charges practically exclude girls who receive small pay, and only five or six of the inmates followed occupations embraced in this investigation, the remainder being chiefly stenographers, typewriters, bookkeepers, etc.

The Home for Self-supporting Women, No. 221 Illinois street, was opened in 1887 by a club of benevolent ladies. The uniform rate of board in this home is $2.50 per week. The house is filled to overflowing, the inmates being chiefly sales women, sewing girls, dressmakers, and domestic servants out of situations. The house is small and overcrowded, but the discomforts will disappear as the enterprise progresses, and the principle of cheap board, combined with the excellent management, will render this home a source of great usefulness to the working women of Chicago.

Several Roman Catholic schools, convents, and asylums accommodate a few working girls of their own religious faith, but no distinct home for working women is supported by the Catholic Church.

The Women's Christian Temperance Union in Chicago, as in other cities, indirectly helps mothers who earn a living by providing kindergartens, industrial schools, and day nurseries, where children are cared for and trained to work.

During the past summer a band of ladies fitted up a house in Hinsdale, 16 miles out of Chicago, and invited ten working girls at a time to spend a week. Food was supplied from the homes of the kind projectors of the scheme. When the week's vacation was over ten other girls were invited, and the house was kept full during the warm weather. The girls were selected and sent out by an organization of ladies in the city which bore the travelling expenses.

Cincinnati.—The Sacred Heart Home, at Nos. 140 and 142 Broadway, under the management of Miss McCabe, is a flourishing institution for homeless working girls of all avocations. The terms range from $1 to $3 per week, according to the means of the inmate. Destitute girls are sometimes taken free of charge until such time as employment can be found for them. The house is always crowded, from four to seven persons occupying each room. There is a good steam laundry on the premises, the use of which is free to residents. The home is non-sectarian, youth and respectability being the only qualifications for admission There are about sixty girls in the institution at present, and since its inception, in 1882, it has received about four thousand young women and girls.

Miss McCabe has a similar home for boys on Fifth street.

Cleveland.-At No. 16 Walnut street is a Boarding Home conducted by the Young Women's Christian Association. There are thirty rooms in the house, each of which is occupied by two boarders. The building is heated by steam, and the furnishings are tasteful and comfortable. The cost of board averages $3.12 weekly, without washing. The following are the regulations of the home:

I. Application for board may be presented to the matron at any time, but will be referred for final decision to a committee, which will be in attendance at the home every Tuesday, at 10 o'clock, a. m. Satisfactory testimonials of character will be required in all cases.

II. The same committee will consider the case of boarders who do not conform to the regulations, or who may be exerting an influence contrary to the spirit of the home. No boarders will be allowed to remain whose conduct is not satisfactory to the committee.

III. No boarder will be allowed to occupy a room alone, except by permission of the committee.

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IV. Every room must be kept in good order by its occupants, one of whom will be held responsible each week for its appearance. rubbish must be placed in a box prepared for the purpose, and nothing be thrown from the windows. No lamps will be allowed in the rooms. V. On the ringing of the bell for meals, every boarder is expected to take her seat promptly at the table. No boarder will be allowed to take food to any room; in case of illness, it will be sent by the matron.

VI. Payment for board must be made to the matron on Saturday of each week. Any boarder wishing to invite a friend to a meal must

receive permission from the matron; she must also notify her of an intended absence from meals. The price for extra meals will be: Dinner, 30 cents; breakfast or tea, 25 cents, each, which will be charged in the weekly bill, unless paid for at the time.

VII. Family worship will be conducted daily, when it is expected that every boarder will be present, unless especially excused by the matron.

VIII. No visitors will be received on the Sabbath.

In all cases where an appointment is made to go out with a friend on the Sabbath, the person making the appointment must be in the parlor at the hour specified, ready to meet that friend and pass immediately out, as no notice will be sent to any room. All boarders are expected to attend some Protestant church regularly on the Sabbath.

IX. The house will be closed at 10 p. m.; the lights to be extinguished at 10 p. m. Any boarder who is absent more than fifteen minutes after the time of closing must bring an excuse that shall be satisfactory to the matron. Repeated absence without satisfactory excuse will furuish ground for dismissal from the home.

X. No boarder will be allowed in the kitchen or laundry, nor to interfere with the domestics. All requests must be made through the

matron.

Louisville. The Young Women's Boarding Home, No. 530 First street, is a large house intended especially for the accommodation of strangers coming from the country to seek work, and for young girls working in the city. The price for board, not including washing, is $2.50 per week. Girls who can not afford to pay $2.50 give as much as they can; and in special cases girls are received without pay. Efforts are made to secure employment for those seeking places. This home is under the care of the Women's Christian Association, and is doing a noble work. The thirty inmates of the home are principally dressmakers, bookbinders, and seamstresses. Residents are admitted only upon proper recommendation, and no Roman Catholics are received. The rooms are heated or at least tempered by heat from the halls. There is a parlor and a sitting room in which the girls can receive their friends. The rules are not stringent, the girls are kindly treated, and the house is always full.

The Girls' Friendly Aid, a society instituted by. Christ (Episcopal) Church, has assembly rooms which are open, day and evening, for study, reading, or social amusement. There are classes in stenography, typewriting, and the rudiments of English. Facilities are also afforded for studying instrumental music, and learning to sing by note. There are forty active and twelve associate members of the aid, which has had a most encouraging growth.

At St. Joseph's Infirmary, an admirable institution under Roman Catholic control, there are rooms set apart for the occupancy of young working women while seeking employment, and quite a number are thus temporarily housed. In addition to these transients, a limited number of girls in active employment board regularly at the infirmary. Newark.-The Women's Christian Association has a boarding home for

working women at No. 104 Court street. The total number of boarders during the year 1887 was seventy-five, the number at any one time ranging from twenty to twenty-five. Recommendations are required for admission, and a high moral and religious tone is maintained. The price of board, including washing, ranges from $3 to $3.50 per week. Lessons in stenography and typewriting are given at the home by a competent teacher at very low rates. During the year 1887 nineteen girls completed the course in both branches, and the majority of these have secured good positions and are filling them creditably. Five girls completed the course in typewriting alone. The board of directors of the home seeks and registers private families in various parts of the city who are willing to board girls unable to live at the home by reason of its remoteness from their places of business.

The Girls' Friendly Society of Newark, at its club house on Centre street, affords its advantages to working girls of all classes. Its two hundred members comprise employés in the thread mills, box makers, shoe fitters, button makers, corset makers, jewellery polishers, saleswomen, dressmakers, milliners, house servants, etc. Classes are maintained in cooking, dressmaking, embroidering, and singing, and relig ious instruction is imparted. The club house is open from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m., and the annual dues of members are 25 cents, half of which goes to the central fund of the Girls' Friendly Society of America.

New Orleans.-The Woman's Club was founded in 1884 to supply the need for an organized centre where working women could meet for mutual improvement. The constitution, as first adopted, provided only for the membership of working women. It was afterward deemed advisable to erase the word "working" and thereby gain the membership and support of broad-minded women of the wealthier class. The organization is now entirely self-supporting. A fund has been created for the relief of sick and distressed members, and by voluntary contributions the funeral expenses of deceased members are defrayed. The club rents a three-story dwelling containing nineteen rooms. The first floor is used for club purposes, and the upper floors are rented to members. At the club rooms instruction at nominal rates is given in German, French, Latin, elocution, stenography, typewriting, calisthenics, painting, needle work, and in cutting and fitting dresses by chart. There is a library and reading room at the disposal of members, who very generally avail themselves of its privileges. The employment bureau secures positions for copyists, teachers, bookkeepers, governesses, musicians, canvassers, agents, collectors, nurses, housekeepers, companions, dressmakers, seamstresses, cashiers, sales women-in fact for persons in almost all avocations save house work. The sewing department embraces dressmaking and coöperative work for merchants. Several of these help the department by pledging work whenever it is needed. The industrial department of the club trains women to be self-supporting by teaching them plain sewing, dressmaking, and em

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