The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 10, 1902, Page 7

THE SUNDAY CALL OU high school girls with ambi- tions bigger than yourselves, and far bigger than your pocket- n't give it all up in de- speir. You can be co-eds after all. e same old story of where there's Girls work their and the University year, and come out es as big as life. It's a rose- when papa pays the bills, wh papa doesn’t—why, there's no reason for being discouraged. Get in and work out your own salvation. Plenty of plucky girls have earned their own sup- port, or aided and abetted it, while they took & university oourse, and their de- grees are alweys twice as precious as to the girl who won hers with little strug- e The ingenuity that some of the co-eds show in thinking up ways of wage-earn- «ng ere nothing less than feminine. Their schemes for money making range all the way from coaching their college mates to shampooing them. Good work can always be s0ld, at college as well as anywhers else, and while there is too much compe- tition for the incompetent girl to stand any show, nevertheless if you can do something well—that is, better than other people can do it—you will find a market for your labor. One thing cheering to you is the fact thiat the expenses at either Btanford or the University of California are light Living costs less than in a large city, and the cost of tuition doesn’t count for much. Tuition at Berkeley is as free &s air; at Stanford the nominal fee of $20 a year is charged, and although $2 looks big if you heve & slim pocketbook, still it really 1s not enough to keep any girl away if she can compass the expenses of board and lodging. The Stagford faculty has estimated the necessary expenses of a student at from $25 to $300 per year, not counting the cost of clothes. Living at Berkeley will come to about the same thing. The point is, how to reise that sum, which includes the incidental expenses of books, laboratory fees and the like. Students have sometimes trisd doing their own housework and cutting ex- penses on grocers’ and butchers’ bills; but it hes always proved happler to work to make money rather than to save it. Perheps you can't earn the whole e you are studying, but you t deal toward it. The girls et the two universities have already de- vised noend of ways to do this, and there is room for more wage earners. If you are & bit ingenious you can think up a new wey to make money, provided the old ways don’t work. Domestic labor is the best fleld to enter. This is because everybody else wants to €o the other thing. The other thing is that vague kind of lebor which so many giris consider more “ladylike” than dish- washing and sweeping. If you are gen- ulnely willing to do the dishwashing and sweeping and can do it genulnely well there’s & chance for you. Good domestic labor is hard to find in California. You knowyourself how our bousekeepers shift from a top-loftical Bridget to a sicppy Sing and back again in sheer desperation. There are famillies living near the universities who want hel, in their kitchens, and many a co-ed has kept herself above water in this way. Down at Palo Alto the professors’ fam- ave had all s trouble getting is too remote to taste of the average Sing finds it too far from rters of fantan and oplum e of the girls have tucked neat littie sums by putting in a few housework. In a good have exchanged this for as ows while she ofa cushions. 1 find her getting how to split er good Amer- t basket-ba ng kindling $ 2 you all the chie it undergoes when en though her nd ask what r and she ilts. come in the morn- leaves her certain- tend to At nocon en again, and the ded between study- nd gett nuner. P girls ve found kind of work too. Their little town r k of domestic service is fo ies where there are young- £ a co-ed is seen wheel- age before her, her atten- ween guiding it out of t} guiding her eye over ns. Two or three chil- s and @ren old enough to do their own walk- ing, tag along behind. The co-ed’s hands are usually so full that she does not see much of the logarithms before her, and she has to do her real studying after her small charges are tucked away for the night. Mending helped one co-ed to her de- gree. She had a needle that was as quick 2s her ingenious wit, and it occurred to ber that socks were as likely to be holey. and buttons as likely to pop among col- lege students as anywhere else in the world, Furthermore, she was pretty certain: that college students did not en- joy darnihg and button-sewing any more than other people, and she took advan- tage of this fact. For a neat little sum she received their garments when they came from the wash and put them in tidy order and delivered them to their owners. She must have been a friend in need to many a desperate college man, and she must have saved him many times the price of a pair of hose, for the usual way that the 'varsity boys have of mend- ing them is to throw them away. he used to say that she could darn e studied. She kept a book open the stockings in one hand and the needle in the other. After she had started the needle in the right place weave it in and out without looking she translated a line of Perhaps her - German would have thought such di- tention fatal had he known; but ever found out, and-her German k was so satisfactory that he prob- would not have believed that she y if he had been told. U. C. girls used to work at n Francisco. It was inning at 6 In the evening, eep late In the morning. But her afternoons were hers, to do as she pleased with, and what she pleased go to Berleeley and put in the hours taking a “special course ty. She was a skilled type- 1at she earned for her ex- s an excellent living; so she ded for, in fact better than any of the girls who send their to papa. acther U. C. girl took care of herself little er by doing newspaper work. did it in the affernoon after she had it the forenoon at the lectures and r studying had to be done in the even- She did not mind t because she w setter and nes d sturdy health, which, of course, Is essential to such hard work as she undertook. For goodness sake, girls, don’t try to go through college, much less work your way through, unless you are plentifully endowed with health. It is no fun to break down in the middle of your course. Lots of girls have done this, not because a college course is.too hard for & woman, but because they had start- ed in to do a great deal more than the required amount of studying and they were scantlly equipped with health in the beginning of the fray. iy Teaching i a means of earning that many co-eds attempt. It Is a good way, is but the supply of teachers is always greater than the demand, a girl must win out in hot competition if she is to get the chance to help herself in this way, One Berkeley girl taught night school in Oakland and studied at the university | by day. The hours of night school work were from 7 to 9, which was not long, but the preparation for the work added & good deal to the time spent upon it. So it took a real little heroine to carry out so big a purpose as to keep up both ends of the arrangement—teaching and being taught. But she wouldn't have been an American girl if she hadn't succeeded. Another kind of teaching is that done in private families. - Girls have tried this several times and the result has been ~ SHAMPCOINCEROOED To.oNE GieLs F the many ways to cook chicken one Is to cook it with tomatoes. Prepare the chicken as for boiling. Cut -one pound of tomatoes in halves and place them in the bottom of a stewpan that is just large enough to hold the chicken. Add one cupful of white stock, a sprig of parsley, six pepper corns; one teaspoonful..of -salt and a - slight | sprinkling of pepper. Let this come to a boil, then add the chicken and cover with greased paper. PBraise gently one and one-half hours. At the end of that time pass the tomato through a sieve and add one_ounce of butter and flour cooked to- gether. Add also a small amount of | cooked macaroni and stew five minutes. Finally place the chicken on a hot plat- | ter and ‘pour the tomato mixture around |it. ‘Garnish ¢ith sippits of fried bread. With some eold cooked chicken, lean veal and it pork as a foundation, a fine EPTCURERN TOPICS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD. chicken loaf may be evolved. Mince the chicken, having two cupfuls of it in all.f Mince also one pourd of lean veal and one-fourth pound of fat salt pork. Add three beaten eggs, a cupful of seasoned tomato sauce, one teaspoonful of grated lemion peel, salt, pepper and - enough cracker crumbs to give it stability. Press this mixture into a large wet bowl and place it upside down in a buttered baking pan. Add a cupful of water and one ta- blespoonful of butter to the pan. Now remove the bowl and sprinkle buttered crumbs lightly over the loaf and add some peeled slices of lemon. Bake in a moder- ate oven an hour and a half, - basting fromt time to time with the pan liquor. Chicken en casserole is sometimes en- riched with prunes. Put a fowl well cov- ered with fresh lard into the marmite containing a few slices of lemon, some lard and a sliced carrot, celery and énlon studded with cloves. Cook on top of the stove until the fowl is browned on both sides. Then add enough stock to partially cover the bird, cover the dish and cook slowly in the oven for one hour. At the end of that time add one pound of French prunes, well washed and stoned, and cook for forty-five minutes longer. The fat should be removed from the gravy before it is sent to the table. Cress and cucumbers ars . sometimes made into refreshing sandwiches. Cut some cucumbers into very thin- slices, sprinkle a little salt over them and place them on a clean cloth for about ten min- utes. Cut:some thin slices of bread and after buttering them arrange the pieces of cucumbper on ‘the bread. Add bits of cress from which the stalks have been removed. Close . the sandwiches ‘with more of the buttered bread and cut them into narrow fingers or squares, Recipes for inexpensive dishes are valu- 2ble to the housewife. Even the homely cubbage can be maneuvered into & very nice dish by the expenditure of a little cure. Boll a fine white cabbage for fifteen h ggenuy the emin satistactory. One girl received in return for the teaching of somebody's small fry, and she h a flnnac home at & small cost—that of & ‘ew hours’ teaching during the week. Teaching and ‘clerical positions seem the most: in demand b{ workers. Conse- laces are the hardest to find. me girls have helped out their re- sources to a goodly extent, however, by office work during their spare- hours. A little of it sometimes can be fitted in be- tween lectures, although the afterncon is usually the collefe students’ freer tims for outside work. Saturdays give extra time for-bread-winning. Stenography- is sometimes turned to ac- count by the girla. Typewriting finds its opportunity. The professors give out work of this kind when' there are syllabl and examination quéstions to be type- written and mimeographed. Besides, Lhnr]z are townspeople who need such wor’ One clever co-ed took to lhumponlngl to ng increase her income and a very good t! she made of it. It was at Stanford, whaere minutes In salted water. ~Pour off the waler and add tresn water in its place. | Boil the cabbage until tender, then set it | aside to cool. Chop the cabbage and put it into a buttered baking Make a sauce with one tablespocuful uf flour, une tablespoonful of butter, cupful of w ter .in which. the cabbage was cooked, Suit and gevper; Stir over the fire until smooth, then add four tablespoonfuls of grated cheese. Pour over the cahhngel and bake ten mingtes in a hot oven. | drink | we—" hairdressing establishments were not to be found nearer than San Joss. The co- ed worked for a few of her friends, who did not want to spend time and carfare to g0 to that town. She charged the same ce as a professional and ducked her riends quite as satisfactorily. Waitting on the door at Roble Hall has helped out the funds of a good many giris. There are plenty of callers to be recelved and some one must b& ready to send names upstairs. Walting at table at the hall has been another source of remunera- tion. College girls ‘are not snobbish. That fact makes wage-earning of this kind far easier than it might be. One of the social autocrats of early days at Stanford, a sirl who ranked high in one of the best sororities there, walted at ta- ble for a horde of her hungry fellow co- eds and put off her own meals until they were served. It was sheer stick-to-it-iveness that car- ried her through. And may be she neve learned anything more useful than thal same stick-to-it-ive-ness in all her collegq course. HUSBAND WHO TELLS FUNNY STORIES IN BED HE man who won't take the time to work off any conversation upon his wife until after they are In bed, and who then begins to tell her the day’'s | stock of funny stories after she is too sleepy to stay awake, so that she always goes to sleep while he is talking to her, bad an awfully funny one to narrate urnto her after he had doused the glim and crawled into bed a few nights ago, says the Washington Post. “Hal ha! hal” he gurgled, as he settled back on his pillow—his wife had been in bed for about fifteen minutes then. “Heard a Jim dandy of a story about Bllly Fantolds this afternoon, It seems that /Billy took it iInto his head to go fishing up the river one afterncon last week, and b'jing, he hired a leaky skiff over in Georgetown without knowing that the blamed thing was leaky. Well, when he had rowed out to the middle of the river, why, he—’ At this stage of it the narfator heard an exceedingly gentle feminine “snore alongside of him. ""B’jee, If she hasn't gone to sleep on me again,” he sald to himself, aggriev- edly. “Mary,” he sald aloud, “are you awake?” There was no reply. “Huh! wonder she couldn’t just be civil enough. to keep awake while a fellow's telling her a good story, anyhow,” he growled to himself, and then he had & sudden {dea. “Well,” he proceeded, In preecisely the same tone that he had employed in start- ing out to tell his funny story, “as I was saying, this sweil queen that gave me the 00-goo eye on F street this afterncon weighed about 158 pounds, and she was built from the ground up, too. - I'm a-tell~ ing you, and she had the swaggerest bunch of golden hemp and the niftlest vio- let eyes you ever saw, at that; and so when I pranced up to her and asked her if 1 hadn’t met her somewhers and then | took her around the cormer to have a bite of lobster and a little something to and a quiet little ¢hat, why “John Forwich, how dare you have the hardthood to lie there and confess such outrageous - things to me!" his wide- awake spouse broke in just at this psych- ological moment, and then he had to spend a good part of the remainder of the night explaining to her that he was only fooling in arder-to see if she would wake up, and it!is not altogether a cinch that she lsn't suspicious of him yet, at that.