Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-04-07
WORK OF COLLEGE WOMEN.
What Many of Them Are Doing in This
Busy World of Ours.

What Many of Them Are Doing in This
Busy World of Ours.
A new departure of college women is
in the raising of fruits, large and
small, and in flower culture. One of
New York's successful teachers has in
vested the capital accumulated by
teaching in flower firm in the south
of France A professional woman
writes from southern California: 81
have small tract of six acres of Or
chard and garden, where l have filled
in all my spare time for the past six
teen years most agreeably and profit
ably. am satisfied that women can
earn comfortable living with a few
acres of land, and the cultivation of the
mind and development of the body
which an intelligent person can derive
from such vocation will be double
compensation.
Anot err New York teacher has in
vested her savings in real estate, and
at its sale is to put the money in vio-
let farm near the city.
An owner of a twenty-acre orange
farm in the south claims for her occu-
patton that it is not only remunerative,
but in all its tendencies highly refining
and preferable to any indoor employ
ment
Lucy P. Salmon, of Vassar college, is
collecting statistics on the great prob
lem of domestic service, in the hope
that some way out OF the difficulty may
be found. She urges that domestic la
Dor, while having features peculiar to
| itself, is amenable to the laws which
control other forms of industry, and
that in the laws which underlie it a
trained mind is essential. And she
argues wisely that the main question
for women to study is how homes may
be retained without the friction and
waste of material and nerve force
that attends housekeeping at the pres
ent time.
Emma P. Ewing, professor of do,
nestle economy in the Iowa agricul'
tural college, has established school
of domestic economy, similar in scope
and character to the other schools com
posing the college. Mrs. Ewing is the
dean of this school, where the course
of study is based upon the assumption
that a pleasant home is an essential
element of broad culture and one OF
the surest safeguards of morality anG
virtue.
In Chicago college woman and a
wife has devoted her time to the study
of sanitary science and has built for her
family model home, perfect in every
sanitary detail
Among unusual professions taken VI
by college women is that of civil engin
eering, adopted by Grace Hubbard, &
graduate of Iowa college, employed by
the United States government survey
in Montana in the making of maps
A woman graduate of the University
of Pennsylvania has lucrative employ
ment as the assayer of metals in
large watch factory.
Several of the graduates of the Uni
versity of California are engaged il
fruit raising, and Kansas includes rancl
owners among her alumni.
One Of Vassar's graduates is print
err, one graduate in mercantile bust
ness, and one conducts chemica
laboratory in the institution, OF which
she is the only woman instructor.
dentist, sanitary expert and severa
librarians are also included among thu
professionals outside of teaching, whicl
| = "a hoe 1Naat faunpifn
patton for women and one which meet
with least resistance Besides this
many graduates are pursuing scien
tific or professional studies wit
their husbands, or assisting tn
husbands in their work, as onl
Jealous aad capable helpmeets ma
assist One college woman in Nev
York, wife of a busy physician, doe
all of her husbands reading for hin
both of current literature and medica
publications. With the trained intelli
gence peculiar to the thoroughly edr
Gated woman, she grasps the salien
points of the articles, and in few word
gives them to him at dinner or in tn
afternoon drive. Many college wome
enter into most intelligent partnershi
with their husbands One Of the pos
graduate students at Barnard has, wit
her husband, opened school wher
she teaches during the morning hour
devoting the afternoons to the Barnar
lectures A university woman on on
of the Brooklyn papers has entered int
unique co-partnership with her hu
band He is salaried man, and at hi
re .uest puts the entire amount OF h
salary into the bank in her name, Will
she supports the family, consisting {
two small children, a maid, her hu
band and herself, with her pen, beside
attending tooher household and dom
much Of her sewing.
OF special value is the college traiI
ing to mothers of children in the CT:
, schools, for unless she is capable I
, helping the children with their work,
tutor is an essential and expensi'
luxury.
Prejudice against the college trail