Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-04-14
Thrifty Maids Mt School.

by a college grl to pay her Incl
dental expenses and perhaps Il part
of her board money, too" said 4
senior of Vassar college home for the
holidays.
But how do they do it?' asked her
companion.
well, in a dozen different ways:
chiefly by playing tie part OF maid to
the girls of wealth. Some of the girls
who come to Vassar are rs helpless a
babes. They are the daughters of
m~illionaires, and never brushed their
own hair or sewed "A button on their
boots in t cir lives. They are only
too glad TO have some one do those
things for them, and that is how the
poorer girls make pocket money. Last
wear a pretty bluc-eyed girl came to
college and stated during the first
week hat her tuition and board were
paid by a kind relative, but every
penny for dress, car fare. and the
thousand and one little incidcntals
she must earn herself. She was aw-
fully clever and did not have an atom
of false pride. FIRST she went to work
and put a little sign on the door:
Gloves and shoes neatly mendcd for 10 cents
each.
Breakfast brought mp for 10 cents.
Hair brushed each nixht for - cents a week.
Beds made up at 10 cents IA week.
you think her terms extravaganza
ly lowp Well, in college they were
thought rather high at first, but she
soon had plenty of customers, and
when they found how neatly she could
brush hair and cur! it. too, on rccep-
,i,,, ,ir.tS ,uIxr n.rnpkr ot,aTn 1NnI,npt
of her time was occupied.
That little fires man made just $50
the first year, and that paid all of her
expenses and u greater part of her
tuition fees.
Then" continued the Vassar girl,
''wc bad another girl who did quite as
well just dressmaking for the other
girls. She had a knack OF it, You
know, and she could take an Old
silk and fix it up with tulle or lace, or
something like that, and make it look
Just too sweet. All tie girls were wild
for her just before every reception or
dance. She graduated last June, and
there is no one yet to fill her place. II
| could only dressmake should like to
fill it,
At Smith and Wellesley colleges
many of the students make small sums
of money in similar ways.
1--WE have II girl said n SmitN
senior, "who has reapcd quite n little
harvest since dress reeds came int
fashion. Any woman can tell yor
what tiresome articles they are to pu'
into a dress and how often they neeC
liking. Well, the girl puts three new
ones in for 80 cents, and if sh,
has to make the cases for them she
charges extra. | don't believe NOR,
than half of our students sew in theil
own reeds, SO you can calculate how
much she makes"
Tutoring is ono of the best way
Of earning money in Smith, although
few except seniors have it given them
This, you know, is teaching backward
pupils during spare hours, and tn
pay is 40 cents an hour. If a girl ha
an hour each day she a make 81
week, and that will pay all incidcuta
expenses, and her wash bill, and he
ca~r-fares home during vacations.
Smith girls who live in the college
house are expected to make up thci
own beds, but many Of them hate t.
work and give il to some college mat
to do for % cents "A week. The genera
charge for weekly mending is ID cents
and 10 cents extra for darning stock
ings. One girl mends gloves bcaut0
fully and gets 3 cents u finger. >
always has more work than she can &c
TIdyIng up bureaus Oh Saturdays is
houris ing business and not an cas-
one. Some girls get their ribbons an,
handkcrchiefs and gloves and sue
articles into a dreadful whirl.
'At Wellesley one of the student
has almost paid her way throug
college 10y sewing On shoe buttons
Her charges are 10 cents "A dozen an
she supplies the buttons and thread
She uas almost tlo entire trade of til
college and spends two hours ever.
day at the work."-NcW York. MornIn,
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