Los Angeles Herald

How a Young Woman Lives in a Hotel

It is getting to be much the fashion for unmarried women now to have homes, rather than to live in hotels or boarding houses. Apartments of all kinds and at all prices are to be found, from the two rooms and bath to the housekeeping suite, but it develops the home feeling to have one's own suite, one's own furniture and arrangements.

Nearly all the new apartment hotels provide small suites for one or two persons, where steam heat and hot water go with the rooms. The tenant pays for his own gas and provides for himself (or herself) furniture, service and food. The expense, of course, varies with the locality. For instance, in one of these hotels located on Copley square, the finest part of the city, a lady has a suite of two rooms and bath, with private hall and two very large closets for trunks, etc., of which the rent is $500 a year.

Having her own books, pictures, bric-a-brac, bookcases, mirror and writing desk, she required only furniture for the bedroom and a rug, sofa and chairs for the little salon. Window draperies and portieres were got up out of the pretty and inexpensive "scrim"—at twenty-five cents a yard—and the entire cost of furnishing was within $100. The hotel had a dining room on the European plan, and she had also a gas stove, on which it was easy to make tea or coffee in the morning, and with cream, rolls and fruit the dainty breakfast is very easily arranged. Her rooms are tasteful and charming, and the entire cost of living does not exceed eighteen dollars a week, while such a suite in a hotel on the American plan would not be less than fifty dollars a week.—Boston Cor. New Orleans Times-Democrat