LONDON WORKGIRL'S MEALS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2143, 8 May 1914, Page 2

LONDON WORKGIRL'S MEALS

The London workgirl is very.inhospitably treated by the groat city, states the "Manchester Guardian." When she arrives by an early workmen's train she has to wait at the. station ot in the streets—glad when the eSmrdros in the neiahliourhuod are open to .her —until her factory or shop is open, attjl on wet iiays during the dimier-hour she may

sit on the stairs or stand about some | efoafcrootu as sho eats ' sojiiethiiig cold [ <>nt of a paper parcel, the food she has i brought from homo. Girls in big shops ha ve tlioiv own .mess-rooms, and betteroff girls may crowd into the cheap tea- . rooms or one'of the twenty, dinner clubs run by g-ivis' societies; b'.it the siqa-U earners, "'girls, without- liats," aud -especially the yoiingsters' between 14 and 17, whose careful feeding is of supreme importance, cannot afford mare than twopence or threepence, and that bars theai from hot food ot drinks. LoafiuK about the streets, tli-ey aro daiuwrcjuslv accc-ssiblo to strangers,.- One bears of people raffling clothes and other articles, and finding thew «n easy prey, while etlim' dangers are obviota. A movement is now <ju foot to estabiisli (■iiniitß-roonis and rest-rooms all over London whore good meals can be bought very cheaply, or where girls who liftv-e brought their lunch from home can it in comfort, and, if they choose, sup-; pleirfent it- with tea of soup. At tlio meeting called by the Social Welfare Association for London recently it was st)KE<?sted that a new independent din-, wig-room should be started at.fuiigjits-; bridge, where there are alwut-1200 girls i iii uee«t of such -acconujio'da-tiou, and that then an attempt; should -he made : to federate and bring under' ef-ie maiiaiseniewfc the twenty o-tlicr. osisting din- ■ me clubs. But so liin-.ch iut.eiest has already been aroused by-tlio suggestion that ait attempt at federation is to be be mad© at OMCe, and a eoiiforenee of' all the women's societies is to bo called to discuss it. ' The bunm-iic-' tee has received n goad wdrking proposal from one of London's most- famous caterers. -