The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-03-25
WORK OF COLLEGE WOMEN.
What Many of Them Are Doing in This
Busy World of Ours.

| what Many OF 1hem Are DONG IN lni'
Busy World of Ours.
A new departure of college women is
in the raising of fruits, large and
small, and in flower culture. One ot
| New Yorlx's successful teachers has in
vested the capital accumulated by
teaching in a 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 l am satisfied that women can
earn a 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 its sale is to put the money in a 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 it's 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 Ia
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
mestic 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 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 a model homo, perfect in every
sanitary detail
FOL
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 a print
er, one graduate in mercantile busi-
I ness, and one conducts a chemical
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 meets
with least resistance. Besides this,
many graduates are pursuing scien-
tific 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. does
all of her husbands reading for him,
both of current literature and medical
publications. With the trained intelli-
gence peculiar to the thoroughly edu-
Gated woman, she grasps the salient
points of the articles, and in few words
gives them to him at dinner or in the
afternoon drive. Many college women
enter into most intelligent partnership
with their husbands One of the post
graduate students at Barnard has with
her husband, opened a school where
she teaches during the morning hours,
devoting the afternoons to the Barnard
lectures A university woman on one
of the Brooklyn papers has entered into
a unique co-partnership with her hus-
band. He is a salaried man, and at her
request puts the entire amount OF his
salary into the bank in her name, while
she supports the family, consisting OF
two small children, maid, her hus-
band and herself, with her pen, besides
attending to her household and doing
much of her sewing
OF special value is the college train
ing to mothers of children in the city
schools, for unless she is capable OF
helping the children with their work. a
tutor is an essential and expensive
luxury.
Prejudice against the college train
ing of women is breaking down. and
though fathers are still more inclined
to educate their sons than their daugh-
| ters, a man of broad culture said re-
:ently: IF haven't enough money to
educate both my sons and daughters
shall send the girls to college, because
they need it more than the boys Not
that they are less bright than their
brothers, for think intellectually they
are more clever, but because the world
demands greater skill and better prep
aration in girl than in boy. The
girl is more sharply criticised, meets
with greater obstacles, and is treated
with less confidence in her ability than
a boy, consequently she needs the best