The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-11-07
COLLEGE GIRLS.
What 1t Costs to See Them Well
Educated.
Boston Traveller.

Boston traveller.
At Vassar College the smallest sum
on which a girl can pay her bills, aside
from scholarship aid. is about $50.
OF this amount 800 is for tuition, and
$500 for board and washing. A genius
In thrift-and Nassar sees such gem
Jus 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, II she goes home between
terms, and the larger items of dress
are not included Necessary ex-
penses at Smith, Wellesley and Bryn
Mawr do not vary greatly from
these figures. Five hundred dollars
would represent the average yearly ex-
penditure of no small proportion OF
the girl students in Eastern schools.
Six hundred dollars is Liberal allow
ance, and SEQ more than luxurious.
The largest saAi spent hardly ri.es
above the minimum which the presi-
dent OF Harvard deemed necessary for
comfort and peace of mind at Cam
bridge.
Boston University of the co-eiuca-
tioual sehools has no dormitory sys-
exercise no small ingenuity in hous-
ing and feeding themselves without
oyerweening board bills. -Four dollars
n week, when necessary. some of them
find it impossible 10 live for. or $l4s
for 81 weeks in the city Add 500 for
tuition and so for books, car fare and
incilentals, and years schooling is
provided at a cost OF $500.
Some of the country colleges, while
giving substantial education, treat
the pocket-book with great leniencv.
ST. Lawrence University, in the north
ern part OF New York, for instance,
tutors young women as well a. men
for $40 year. and the townspeople
take them TO their hearts and their
best guest chambers for IS 30 week
Education there still costs substan-
TALLY what il used TO at the older
schools in the pioneer days.
To work ones wav through college
unaided Is hard task, but Is now and
then accomplished by a sturdy siri.
A large eyed brunette. not sturdy but
fragile looking, graduated from Boston
University few years ago by nuding a
situation NJ waitress in a restaurant,
, wearing the white apron during the
fA~1 ARtts~ a. iiitsl tkitf- ana lAEAiAt anu
in vacation season the day through.
To save i sometimes easier than u
earn, and have in mind one group OF
| four girl<. two ffoIn Boston I niverSi-
| ~ and two at the Harvard Annex,
who cnga -ei two adjoining rooms in
a quiet horse IN Be ton and boarded
/ themselves on al average 81 IS 20 per
week. Their rooms cost s.. or s. >
esch. They took breakfast at small
restaurant. where oatmeal and steak
co 1 - cents. They ATE sn apgle and
= slice ot bread fes lunch. AMI At night
ihey poolesi rr-u4Yce-. spreading nap
kins ga the top Of trunks and toasted
on hreatl aud milk. OF bread and s
taste Of c8nuesi meat
enCe neighter saTrep1ifiousiv in.
scrtesi six ci4s e. 81 Jelly IN the bureau
drawer. Which ~egvs-f as comIniSSary
| department ami i1en thew dine.l ROY.
| sliy fgr DAYS hs ioe.i cost thenI stch
81 cents PER 5iav and ret one % them
suffsre! IN hea!th ~ the experiment
| Their sypru - scr ctptainE we're nc
/ srestcr IN proportion One memher 81
| the a sSrtette poe scs single EoGn
= xell-worn back ca-hmere. Retag
invites Ia = prsstessoffs RECEPTION og.s
evening, she remzined seAg from !
days fes.itatsous, while sire sat Ia 4
coax and pe-Iieost. cieanins AID
pressing and fsrsh-ning with Tislaua
her only apparel At nisht she en-.
jcyed herself g'fite a. shoroEekiy a. fhs
res; Of The company