The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-03
THE DoINas OF WOMEN FOLK.
What 1t Costs Girl to Go to College
Other GleaningS.


Other Gleanings.
NEW YORK, Sept. This is the time of
year when ambitious girls in different parts
of the country are counting the costs OF a
college education. Fortunately for them
the scale of expenditure in the colleges
open to women has not risen high enough
to make the most economical damsel I'M
comfortable among her richer classmates.
Practically without exception, the standards
of dress in the girls college are simple, and,
more than that, the plucky young woman
who is working her way through a four
years course OF short commons of pocket
money is oftel elevated into something very
like heroine.
At Vassar College the smallest sum on
which girl can pay her bills, aside from
scholarship aid, is about $3.50. OF this
amount 500 is for tuition, and $500 for
board and washing A genius in thrift
and Vassar sees such genius now and then
can buy her books and stationery and
supply herself with the small incidentals
dear to school girls for the remaining $50
Car fare, if she goes home between terms,
and the lar Ell items of dress are not in
cluded. Necessary expenses at Smith,
Wellesley and Bryn Mawr do not vary
greatly from these figures. Five hundred
expenditure of no small proportion of the
girl students in eastern schools. Six hun
dred dollars is liberal allowance, and 800
more than luxurious. The largest sums
spent hardly rise abovesthe minimum which
the president of Harvard deemed neces-
sary for comfort and peace Of mind at Cam
bridge.
Boston University, of the co-ciucational
schools, has no dornitory system, and girl
fe Aicta M
ingenuity in housing and feeding themselves
without overweening board bills. Four
dollars week. when necessary, some OF
them find it possible to live for, or $148 for
thirty-seven weeks in the city. Add 800
for tuition and $50 for books car fare and
incidentals, and years schooling is pro-
vided at a cost OF $500.
Some of the country colleges. while giving
q substantial education, treat the pocket
book with great leniency. ST. Lawrence
University, in the northern part of New
York, for instance, tutors young women as
well as mon for $40 O year, and the
townspeople take them to their hearts and
their best guest chambers for SO so week.
Education there still costs substantially
VIII + il used TO at the older schools in the
pioneer days.
To work ones way through college I'M
aided is a hard task, but now and then ac-
brunette, not sturdy but fragile-looking,
graduated from Boston University few
years ago, by finding situation as waitress
in restaurant, wearing the white apron
during the rust hours at morning and
night and in vacation season the day
through. To save is sometimes easier than
to earn, and have III mind one group of
four girls, two from Boston University and
two at the II lrvard Annex, who engaged
two adjoining rooms in quiet house in
Boston ard boarded themselves on an
average of So 20 per week. Their rooms
cost So, or 81 25 each. They took breakfast
at q small restaurant, where oatmeal and
steak cost 20 cents. They ate an apple and
"a slice OF bread for lunch and at night they
pool,d resources, spreading napkins on the
top of trunk and feasting on bread and
milk or bread and taste of canned meats.
Once a neighbor surreotitiously inserted six
glasses Of jelly IN The bureau drawer which
served as commissnry department, and then
they diUed royalty for days. The food cost
them each S5 cents per day and not one Of
them suffered in health by the experiment.
Their expenses for clothing were no greater
in proportion. One member of the quartet
possessed a single gown. "a well-worn black
cashmere. Being invited to a professors
reception one evening, she remained away
from a days recitation while she sat
In cloak and petticoat, cleaning and press
ing and freshening with ribbons her only
apparel At night she enjoyed herself
quite as thoroughly as the rest Of the COM
pany.
1t is matter requiring explanation why
women succeed no better than they do as
engravers. It is not business into which
they have gone recently On tue contrary,
their beginnings in the art date back some
time. the discrepancy between the wages
earned by men and women in wood engrsv
ing is probably somewhat larger than would
be found in analogous trades ;and what is net
always the case. itseems in majority OF