The Forrest City times., 1888-10-06
YOUNG GIRLS IN COLLEGES.
what IL Costs Them to Enter the Bfe Institutions and the Amount Ne cessary for Luxurics.

Institutions and the Amount Ne
 cessary for Luxurics.
 This is the time of year when ambi- tious girls in different parts of the country are counting the costs of college education. Fortunately for them the scale of expenditure in the colleges open to women has not risen high enough to make the most econom- icsl damsel uncomfortable among her richer classmates. Practically. with- out exception. the standards of dress in the girls colleges are simple. and, more than that. the plucky young woman who s working her way through four years course on short commons of pocket money is often elc- vated into something very like hero inc
 At Vasssr College the smallest sum on which a girl can pay her bills. aside from scholarship aid, Is about &450. Of this amount Sl00 is for tuition and $500 for board and washing. A Agenius in tbrif:-and vassar sees such genius now and then-csn buy her books and stationery and supply herself with small incidentals dear to school girls for the remaining $50 Car fare, if she goes homo between terms. and the larger items of dress are not included. Necessary expenses at Smith, Welles- ley and Bryn Mawr do not vary great ly from these figures. Five hundred dollars would represent the average yearly expenditure of no small propor- tion of the girl students in eastern schools Six hundred dollars is a lib- eral allowance. and s700 more than luxurious The largest sums spent hardly rise above the minimum which the pres dent of Harvard deemed nec- essary for comfort and peace of mind at Cambridge.
 Boston universit of the co-educa. tonal schools, has no dormitory sys- tenn and girl students from Q distance exercise no small ingenuity in housing and feeding themselves without over- ween ng board bills Four dollars a week. when necessary, some of them find t possible to live for, or $148 for thirty-scven weeks in the city. Add $100 for tuition and $50 for books. car fare and incidentals. and year schooling is provided at cost of $500
 Some of the country colleges. while giving substantial education. treat the pockeibook with great leni- ency. St. Lawrence University. in the northern part of New York. for instance. tutors young women ss we'll as men for $40 ear. and the iowns- people take them to their hearts and their best guest oh ambers for $3 50 . week. Education there still costs sub stantially what it used 10 at tho older schools in the pioneer days.
 To work ones way through college unaided Is hard task, but now and then accomplished by a sturdy girl. A large ey ed brunette. not sturdy but fragile-looking, graduated from Bos- ton University few years ago by find. ing situation as waitress in a res- taurant wearing the white apr on dur ing the rush at morning and night and m vacation season the day through To gave is sometimes easier than to earn. and have in mind one group of four 2 rls. two from Boston University and two at the Harvard An mex, who engaged two adjoining rooms in quiet house in Boston and boarded themselves on an average of $3. 70 per week. Their rooms cost S5 or $l. 25 each. They took breakfast at a small restaurant, where oatmeal and steak cost twenty cents. They ate an apple and sl co of bread for lunch and at night they pooled resources, spre eading napkins on the top of a trunk and feastiug on bread and milk or bread and taste of canned meats. Once ncighbor surreptitiously inserted six glasses of jelly in the bureau drawer wh ch served as commissary department and then they dned roy ally for days. The food cost them each thirty five cents per day. and not one of them suffered in health by the ex- pertinent Their expenses for cloth. ing were no greater in proportion. One mem Der of the guartette possessed single gown. well-worn black cash mere. Being invited to a professor 8 reception one evening. she remained away from a days iecitations while she sat in a cloak and pelticoat clean. ing and pressing and freshing with ribbons her only apparel At night she enjoyed herself quite as thoroughly as the rest of the company. -New Fork AaH aud Express.