The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-03-17
THRIFTY soHooL.oIRLs.
College Students who Make Their =,
psnses BY Doing Odd Jobs.

THRIFTY SCHOOLGIRLS.
College students who Make Their Ex-
psnses BY Doing Odd JobsI
Enough money may be earned by .
college girl while at school to pay her
incidental expenses and perhaps part
OF her board money, too" said senior
Of vassar College.
"But how do they do itp' asked her
companion.
"Well, in dozen different ways;
chiefly by playing the part of maid to
the girls Of wealth. Some Of the girls
who come up to Vassar are AS helpless as
babes. They are the daughters Of
millionaires, and never brushed their
own hair or sewed button on their
boots in their 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 year
pretty blue-eyed girl came to college
and stated during the first week that
her tuition and board were paid by a
kind relative, but every penny for dress,
car fare and the thousand and one little
incidentals she must earn herself. She
was awfully clever and did not have an
atom of false pride. First she went to
work and put little sign on the door:
Gloves and shoes neatly mcnded for 10 cents
each.
| Breakfast brought up for 10 cents.
| Hair brushed each night for IS cents q week,
Beds made up for 10 cents . week.
"You think her terms extravagantly
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 would
brush hair and curl it, too, on recep-
tion nights, why every spare moment
OF her time was occupied"
That little freshman made just $3.50
the first year. and that paid all of her
expenses and a great part of her tuition
fees.
"Then," continued the Vassar girl,
1--WE had another girl who did almost
as we'll just dressmaking for the other
| girls. She had u knack of it, you
know; and she conld take an old silk
and fix it up with tulle or lace, or
something like that. and make it look
just too sweet. All the 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. If
l coulp only dressmake should like to
fill it.''
At Smith and Wellesley colleges
many of the students make small sums
OF money in similar ways.
"We have one girl" said a Smith
senior, ''who has reaped quite q little
harvest since dress reeds came into
fashion. Any woman can tell you
what tiresome articles they are to put
into dress and how often they need
fixing. Well. the girl puts three new
ones in for thirty cents and if she has
to make the cases for them she charges
extra. l don't believe more than half
of our students sew in their own reeds.
so you can calculate how much she
| makes"
Tutoring is one of the best ways of
earning money in Smith, although few
except seniors have it given them.
This, you know, is teaching backward
pupils during spare hours, and the pay
is forty cents an hour. If girl has an
hour each day she can make two dol
lars week, and that will pay all Incl
dental expenses, and her wash bill, and
her car-fares home during vacations.
Smith girls who live in the college
house are expected to make up their
own beds, but many of them hate the
work and give it to some college mate
to do for 20 cents week. The general
charge for weekly mending is Is cents,
and 10 cents extra for darning stock
ings. One girl mends gloves beauti-
fully and gets cents finger. She
always has more work than she can do.
Tdying up bureaus on Saturdays is a
flourishing business and not an easy
one. Some girls get their ribbons and
handkerchiefs and gloves and such arti-
cles into dreadful whirl, you know.
Two girls who make exquisite fancy
work have coined quite little sum
making presents. The students supply
the material and they do the work for
very reasonable prices.
At Wellesley one of the students has
almost paid her way through college
by sewing on shoe buttons. Her charge.
are 10 cents dozen and she supplies
the buttons and thread. She has almost
the entire trade of the college and
spends two hours every day at the
work. IN Y. Morning Journal.