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obtained thelr education C insfftutions of learning. mercial advantage. hoot wealthier puplis, by darning and mending, by tutoring cing classes, making candies for sale, renting bicyeles and by doing a bomdred and one other things that appeal to the average girl of re- OLLEGE carcers of successful men often show that they by their own efforts. But one ix o overlook the fact that many girls, determined to secure ad- vanced education at any cost, “work their way” through high Indeed, the number is tn the thou At most of the colleges where young women nare traimed for life work—at Nassau, Smith, Barnard, Mount and even Radelifie, the feminine adjunct of Harvard—ambitious pupils of Himited means udd to thelr resources by turning their talents to com- At some places these enterprising girla are not mbove cleaning they add to their llmited enpltal by housework, by sewing for mendable efforts upon ezarded in the right ds. Holyoke, Oberlin, Wellesley, fustructing dan the part of poor girls to help light. Such girls arc respected, - tblack e—she was r best pupils . & herself over- w ed w ssione . m m wealthy girl, Who ess . shined her own shoes e p her sleeves, nd never ceased s was - d shining e e two girls washed their together to & ast Afty girls s e ing, or at A resources. s thriving do they make ollege but have t¢ 2t the end of each ents own bicveles a big%ulietin dors, along ennounging by the revenue is rent built up a eir expert- ple cus- L] E ried their wares whe = to college, and . B 5 demand for Now st n front of thelr s h these delicacies pass by lgrge room pro ies and utensils candy A ure confec- idge. This is es and nets the efforts to Jecomes a All who 1 standing S £ sitor st Vassar z r s ne twent five girls wi & helped them selyes P w large Y t . attered ¥ er which gave 16 had o and through caretaker of the 1 and still lowers ibrary tastes or practical money by painting re, valentines and rtic some a r itting slip- d golf jackets, others By making nasium suits AS the col is some distance from 2 number of girls pick up K additional revenue by acting as for merchants. They gell candy, ribbon and even room nt Holyoke girls seem to acquire from the brisk New Eng- hat they breathe. During the vacations many of them work replenish their purses for the com- & secason Some act ag waitresses at : nd seaside hotels during the Mount Holyoke are agents publishing houses and magazines snd occesionally for msanufacturers of ®ioves, corsets and such things. 1t is stated, however, that most of them take up these side lines mors in | | order to secure pin money than for the, purpose of paying their scholastic way. | Domestic work is incumbent upon the giris at Mount Holyoke. This sys- | tem is a survival of the days when higher education for women was in fts | infancy and when any financial conces- would prove of value to the mass | students, Consequently instead of | keeping a regiment of servants the pu- pils themselves were required to do & coneiderable part of the housekeeping | work. Students sct as housemaids and wait- resses, and none escapes her share of | domestic service. But the tax on each | girl’s time = small—the limit is fifty | minutes a day, but most of them get| through in much less, | In a way this is working a tlreer( through college, as_the result means that the expenses of each student are thus reduced by from $100 to $160 a | vear. The wealthy girl is treated ex- actly like her poorer schoolmate. Students at Barnard College—the sis- ter of Columbia—are continually at- tempting te solve the problem of get- ting through the higher school on a slender purs In some instances they are successful; in others they at least earn pin moi A students’ exchange here looks out for the interests of such girls. Some- times paying positions are obtained outside. but most of those who earn money are enabled to do so within the college. Tutoring backward students principal source of revenue. This pays a dollar an hour to the student-teacher and helps to swell the assets of many| an _upper class woman. cake and eandy makers. 1% Sweetmeats | athar artlel l . find ready sale. | usually | Many girls do plain or fancy sewing |l Barnard has a large sweet tooth, and for their classmaf flling It brings revenue to Industrious | tionery, penci Others sell sta THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. b it it s i NARBARAAN KRR RN XD ’ Some girls are fortunate emough to have clétical positions downtown in New York, which they fill after school hours. A few do light sewing for fam- illes, and others spend thelr afternoons or evenings reading to invalids or act- ing as companions. One girl supported herself entirely during her senior year by such outside work. She held a scholarship, so that there was no tuitlon to pay. She obtained some light clerical work, taught a small dancing class of girls in the evening and during leisure mo- ments made candy for sale in the col- 8 exchange, - irls of Smith Colle; Northampton, | untain pens and [Mans., are especially resourcefyl in pad- 4ing out siender assets by tactful busi- n enterprise. Some time ago one of the graduates of this institution sub- mitted to a friend her account-book for a yeer.. Upon the Mmcome side were iterhs aggregating $140, representing a little over 300 hours of labor. What this enterprising woman did to secure money for the expe of her educetion was stated !n the varlous te Tutoring students led; from this work she reallzed about $75, Sewipg, prinei- pally upon gymnasium suits for fresh- mén, brought In about $18, and other sewing of plain or fancy character some $16 more. i She acted ss agent for a hat store and reaped over §10 In commissions; she mended clothing and darned stockings, IS < < P4 / ./ A distributed colléege magazines, sold Christmas books and cards, tooth paste and other toilet articles, and in this way added to her incom: None of her schoolmates thought any the less of her because of these efforts;| in fact, she was one of the most popu- lar girls in college. One girl at Smith devised a college calendar that immensely pleased the other students. She .sold enough of them to take her half through the term. paper devised a set of football players. For weeks she could mot make dupli cates of these figures fast enough to fill her ordei A number of students make dancing classes pay. There are always num- bers of freshman recruits who know little or nothing of the graces of the ballroom floor, and .they are glad to pay for instructlon. The fee for each member of the class is usually 11 but the numbers joining make th ture profitable. One student of practical turn of mind at Smith offered at the beginning of a term to keep the stockings of her classmates in good condition for §3 a year. She secured thirty patrons, and the $90 thus secured went a long way toward providing her lving ex- penses. Other girls at the beginning of a term make gymnasium suits for the new- comers. Students have been known to realize $300 from this industry each year, but it is grinding work. Bulletin beards in the Smith College | dormitories often bear curious signs, but all indicating that the Americap spirit of self-help is as strong im the young women of the land as in the men. One placard announced, for instance, | “Shoe buttons placed with patent fas- teners, 15 cents a pair.” Another, will make your bed and dust your roem; terms moderate.” Still another sollelted opportunities for “washing dishes after spreads’”—for a considera- tion. 3 Artistic girls take full advantage of holiday =and so<ial seasons. For Thanksgiving, Christmas, st Valen- tine's day, Faster and the various school gala days they offer unique and often meritorious cards, which are sold 4t moderate prices, but which result n siderable sums. Tien springtime comes the makers of shirtwaists get busy. Thers is al ways & lively demand for these gar- ments, and the college maker {s usually to produce fin de siecle styles that please the buyers better than the more finished products of clty modistes. Qberlin College, at the town of that name fn Ohlo, was one of the first to| offer higher &ducational advantages to women on the same terms as men. Here self-support has been Imperativi with a large number of the girls who have dauntless'y striggled toward their higher ideals. il B8 i Ves il ¥ git e /0 4n that town many college girls ind employment in the homes of the citi- 3ens. At times they rent roems In private houses, giving in exchange & \!c:fi-m amount of labor in the house- old. | A similar solution of the problem of | college maintenance has found by | the girl students at the ity of California. Many of the feminine pupils In that school find places in the vate families of Berkeley, earning their beard and lodging with thres or four hours’ work a day. Here, too, a sewing: girl has proven of great advantage. The sewing classes' are directed by seamstress of ac- knowledged ability, and girls comple Ing the course receive diplomas. {_Each student is paid by the hour for | what she does, and some of the work |14 80 meritorious that it finds a veady | market In the large cities of the West |and East. fl At Bryn Mawr, near Philadelphia, the 8im is to relieve studeiits of every su, gestion of work, in order that they may devote themselves the more assiudously to their studie: As a rule the Bryn | Mawr girl comes of a family of means and she is not obliged to seek aid in maintaining herself during her college | eareer, | _Still, if necessary, she may find aid. She {s supposed to use her head rather than her hands in working her way through. There are vecupations, how- | #ver, to which she may turn within the | institution. | Tutering is made a source of profit; | assistants in the chemical and blolog- {ical laboratories and in other depart- ments are paid, as are the assistant librarians, the girls who distribute let- ters and others who turn industry to | account. | .In almost every institution girls who | need money to help them through their | ccllege careers, and who do net shrink | from any honoratle means of increas- ing their incomes, find many ways of self ald. Some are paid by the college authar- itieg for taking care of librarles and reading-rooms during certain hours, Laboratery assistants are in demand. They wash botties, put new material in order and do other similar work, usua Iy at 25 cents an hour. Quite a number find typewriting to do, both for members of the faculty and for outside customers. Some copy | themes for literary stude and music | for these in the literary classas. | Some years ago the fleld of nity for the girls of Radecliffe was widened by an appeal to the em- ploying centers of Cambridge and Bos- ton. Circulars were sent out stating that the poorer students of the institution would be glad of employment In mend- |ing. taking care of children, reading | aloud, acting as shopning agents, do- ing fypewriting, copring and other work fora few hours each day. In response to this appeal was fecund for a large num -l'a-t-. who were In thig way to grat- ify their ambition in the line of ressiv- ing a higher education. - \