Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-05-05
WORK OF COLLEGE WOMEN.

hnHL Many OF Incm are DOlnR IN InlS
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 a flower firm in the south
of France. A professional woman
writes from southern California: II
have a small tract of six acres of or
chard and garden, where l have filed
in all my spare time for the past six
teen years most agreeably and profit
ably. / 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 a double
compensation.
Another 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 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 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
mestic economy in the Iowa agricul-
tural college, has established 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 ard 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
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 Vassars graduates is print
er, one graduate in mercantile bust
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, 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
piVes 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
unique 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 tonher household and doing
much of her sewing
Of special value is the college train
inc to mothers of children in the CITY
schools, for unless she is capable OF
helping the children with their work, q
tn or is an essential and expensive
luxury.
Prejudice against the college train.