Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-09-15 | Page 13 | A New Role for the "Spare" Room

I. I r. r I A NEW NEB R ROLE OLE FO FOR FORTHE R I THE SPARE SP ARE ROOM Never 1 before since the dark r n j construction and anti adjusting 1 days t followed ed J the close of ot tb the civil have so many women in the I 1 taken in roomers as at the tho pro prose ie time The Tho reason for doing this is n u Identical now with that which ed cd It then Then it was a case In mar ma parts of or the country of or having to m mat mal mata mala 1 a little money and knowing knot no oth way to do it It now tho the matter of or nial l In Ing money hasn't much to do with with In many parts part of oC tho the country It t Is fa matter of or patriotic duty War W wd woi I cant can't go o on without war work en ai nJ war workers have to have some Pl pla plato plato to live l Building prices are high and moreover capitalists are n li n eager to put their money Into hou building building- schemes that will merely ti U over 01 a temporary condition The wo won wor obvious obviously cannot buy houses wh the they are working in tho war only for tho the period of oC the th war am a J the men who put up the money for tor t houses of ot course do not want empl empi usel useless ss houses on their hands s In c ca ca Industry and population shift aw aR aw fro from these centers after the war j 1 Our grandmothers when they tooka t took tooka ok oka a pa pay guest or so In those da day d looked upon It t as possibly on one of at t few genteel ways of ot making a a. lit Uti mone money They could at least do It wit out having to go out of ot their horn hoir homand and staying within the home home was waa course tho the Important thing and th could do It as ns a means mean of ot making told t told old homestead useful Sometimes t t guest was a 3 sort of ot relative and was a a. tacit un understanding amo neighbors that no one ono should look up up the harboring harborIng- of ot that sort of or guest guesta g guesta a business venture There Thereas was as a a. c tit 4 tain tamn delicacy on the part of ot our oUI wo woin wore worn In accepting accepting- any kind of at money pa ir ps ment that is hard for us of ot this g ge oration to understand J JI I I Under the present conditions t loi Io 1 i committees appointed to solve f t housing problem In some localities h ha hamade made house to ca canvasses ex t tinS ing inS the well well-to-do folk no less 1 th their humbler neighbors neighbor for tor not o ow owIng t Ing lag their doors to the strangers course In every case the effort isget Is 15 Isget get congenial people and to get gett each household a 8 guest g who J Jabout l J labout Jabout about the same notions of ot living as asi i householders themselves g J And nd while It Is regarded as a a. pat pt otic duty to take tako In this surplus poi poj po lation when It comes to settling t business end of It our women nomen are feeling the delicacy that their gr gran mothers did dill The They know that th the thew v workers are receiving war cost of C the tho upkeep of a hou house o is hU hip Bed linen Is exorbitant laundry pr have almost doubled in some somo places places places' I domestic service has gone one soaring I the thc amateur landlady fixes a price th lb thIs Is In l keeping with all other prese presse day dar prices and that gives her all allt t more to spend on Red fled Cross W acU to devote to buying materials to m me mal l goodies boodles for the soldiers' soldiers canteen an aD and I have o on hand when hen the nt next t Libel Liber loan drive comes around I. I r it J