St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-09

private secretaries, library assistants,
cOpyists, typewriters. steuographers.
Girls have run errands.
Girls have become agents for various
wares and appliances.
Girls have piled the needle and
welded the mop and the broom in the
hire of their more affiuent neighbors.
Girls will be girls in college as out of
college, impulsiye, responsive, brimful
or nervous energy, fertile IN resources.
Earning in Vacation.
With the summer vacations new
fields open I'D. Girls become govern
Girls bear the burden and heat of the
day In hotel kitchens.
One student was for two years the
matron OF '-fresh-air-fund'' cottage.
One girl worked daily during the
summer on her fathers farm and
walked four miles in the evening to give
private lessons in Latin and Greek.
Another earned the one-year scholar
ship offered by popular magazine,
trudging miles during the heated term
to CLEAN the 1000 subscriptions re
quired.
Yet in answering these anxious in
quirerS any suggestion OF ways and
means" should SAVIOR strongly of the
salt of caution and experience.
Most OF the occupations open to girls
in college yield but meager and pre-
carlOuS return.
The major college expenses can
rarely be paid from such sources; at
best one can expect little more than
the sum sufficient for the incidental
outgU.
"Brave Girls Are They"
1t rarely happens that college girl
is Sticking college education solely for
her own personal ends. Some younger
brother or sister is to be sent to college
as soon as she enters upon graduate
bread winning, or home to be provided
as speedily rs possible for parents or
relatives who can toll no more.
Nearly always the college girl who is
forcing the mighty dollar to its farthest
possibilities becomes her own laundreS
and charwoman. her own seamstress
and dressmaker
For these and other reasons the strain
upon the girl who is working her way
through college is serious and pro-
tracted.
Doubtless the severity might be re-
duced through forethought and train
ing. In an admirable article. entitled
Hints on Self-Education," contributed
recently to periodical for young peo-
pie by the former president of an Amer
lean university, the distinguished eX-
president advises the student support
ing himself by any sort OF labor during
the university course to extend his UNI
dergraduate studies over five or six
years rather than to attempt TO accom-
pliSh full course i'll four years at the
expense of physical and mental good
health.
He adds the following pertinent sug-
gestions:
First TO prepare completely for col
lege.
Second, to learn a trade completely"
Skilled Labor in Demand.
Wellesley college affords happy ex-
ampleS under these conditions.
One student who wisely distributed
the work requisite for a degree over
considerably more than four years, sup
ported herself while in college by
skilled Labor OF the most eXacting char
acter, and the close of her course found
her in possession of powers admirably
trained for further study, with an occu-
patton at once honorable and capable of
further development.
4 teacher of experience has taken her
course at intervals, separated by periods
of teaching. This alienation of occu-
pations extended over some ten years,
and it is safe to say that college degree
is rarely conferred upon candidate in
more vigorous condition OF mind and
body.
A self-supporting student finds her
self one of a gOodly company OF young
women whose courage. perseverance,
self-denial and cheerfulneSs command
the respect and admiration of all who
become acquainted with their circum-
stances. Il have perfect health and SIS
ahead" said one of these students;
''why should | worryP" Now as an ex-
perienced physician she doubtless acts
as the best of tonnes upon the sic kwho
are brought into contact with her strong
and radiant womanhood.
On the other hand, one trembes for
many brave girl as the burden ef debt
grows heavier and the home anXieties
thIcken about her. There is great dan
ger that on the day when she should 20
out into the world, strong in muscle and
in nerve, she will be able to present but
an enfeebled body and an incomplete
mental and social development.
She Herself Needs Her strength
. 1t is clear to those who have become
acquainted with selt-SuDporting girls in
college that what these girls need is not
more zeal or more courage, but financial
aid. Their time in college should be
lett free for the main purposes of col
lege life.
Young women are today occupying
positions of great usefulness, and even
of honor and distinction, who owe their
college training directly to private
benevolence. or to the provisions of the
students aid society, which is ready to
act as almoner, be the gift large or
small. Sure and swift returns await
the wise capitalist who stands ready
to borrow phrase from distinguished
friend of Wellesley-''to invest - "i"iS "