The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-03-30
WORK OF COLLEGE WOMEN.
What Many of Them Are Doing i'm This
Busy World of Ours.

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: II
have small tract of six acres of or
chard and garden, where | 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 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.
Another New York teacher has in
vested her savings in real estate, and
at it's sale is TO put the money in vio-
let farm near the city.
An owner of 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 esta blishe6 a 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 and
virtue.
| In Chicago a 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 up
by college women is that of civil engin-
eering, adopted by Grace Hubbard, a
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 a
large watch factory
Several of the graduates of the Uni
versity of California are engaged in
fruit raising and Kansas includes ranch
owners among her alumni.
One of Vassar's graduates is print
err, one graduate in mercantile bust
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laboratory in the institution, of which
she is the only woman instructor. A
dentist, sanitary expert and several
librarians are also included among the
professionals outside of teaching, which
is, as it ever has been, a favorite occu
patton for women and one which meet.
with least resistance. Besides this
many graduates are pursuing scien
tifc or professional studies with
their husbands, or assisting the
husbands in their work, as only
Jealous aad capable helpmeets may
assist One college woman in New
York, wife of busy physician, doe.
all of her husbands reading for him
both Of current literature and medica
publications. With the trained intelli
gence peculiar to the thoroughly edu
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 womel
enter into most intelligent partnership
with their husbands. One of the post
graduate students at Barnard has, witt
her husband, opened school wher
she teaches during the morning hours
devoting the afternoons to the Barnar'
lectures A university woman on on
J of the Brooklyn papers has entered int
unique co-partnership with her hus
!, band. He is salaried man, and at he
: request puts the entire amount of hi
salary into the bank in her name, Will
she supports the family, consisting G
two small children, maid, her hu:
band and herself, with her pen, beside
attending touher household and doin
much of her sewing
OF special value is the college train
ing to mothers of children in the cit
schools, for unless she is capable {
helping the children with their work,
tutor is an essential and expensiv
, luxury.
Prejudice against the college trail