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Show The. account adds that tho building has already al-ready become a civic center for the. working girls of Paris. Tho telephone and postoce girls have formed various clubs, at which everything of interest is discussed. Already classes in dross making and esperanto havs bean formed. The walls aro largely of glass and the floors marble. Salt Lake is not nearly so large as Paris, but the necessities of the world aro much alike everywhere. There aro a great many working girls in Salt Lake, and many of them have no homes. A great many who havo homes live far away on tho outskirts of the city and are obliged to go homo to luncheon or bring their luncheons with them. If such a structure as is imperfectly described above could be erected hero and devoted to tho same purposes that the Paris building is, where girls could got cheap but beautiful rooms and where food could be supplied at just a trifle above cost, and whore luncheons could be furnished fur-nished for what tho car faro to and from their homos costs now, we believe it would bo occupied occu-pied in a week. In the telegraph and telephone ofllces, in private ofllces and stores, several hundred hun-dred girls are employed in this city. It would be a good thing to have a census taken of them, to ascertain how many there are, how many have homes,, how much their weekly expenses are for food . and car faro, from which estimates could be made .of the probable patronage patron-age which such an establishment would command. com-mand. Also the probable . expense of running such a place would be estimated and the flxed charges for coal, taxes, light, etc., would havo to bo looked to. It would have to bo at some central point, but it might be in the center of one of the big blocks, where tho land would not be expensive. Then if erected by a company it should bo on tho understanding that tho structure struc-ture should never pay more than cheap Interest. Mr. D. O. Mills has built one or more million-dollar million-dollar buildings in Now York for men of small Incomes, and they have paid from the start. There the great care is in the purchase of food. It has to be of the best, of perishable raa- terial only what is neodad from day to day is purchased; tho menu is not elaborate, but Is of jH the best, and the experiment is a great success. Such, n building orectod for such a purpose ,H on enlightened plans, would be a groat thing for 'H tho working girls of this city; it would be a jH great thing something to point with pride to for Salt Lake City. , v |