The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-28

If 1t is found that he really can sew
buttons ON better than any woman
he should be requested to describe his
methods in writing and publish it in
tract form, Sush a tract disseminat-
ed throughout the button-wearing
world would be an evangel of peace
in many homes. lit would mot only be
a Mothers Assistant, but a Guide to
Seamstresses, a Friend to the Lonely
Man, and valuable text book for
Manual Training Schools, Few treat
ises of the Theologians would have a
more practical and direct bearing upon
daily life and daily needs, and who can
be so we'll prepared to write 1t as this
champion of button-sewersl
AS TO GIRLS.
AT the Swanley horticultural college
in England 20 out of 81 students are
girls, and the prize list shows that they
have taken the lead. In the last ex-
animation Miss Gulvin won the Royal
Horticultural societys medal against
all England" These girl students not
only distinguish themselves in the theo-
retical departments but in all practical
work, carrying out all those varied pro-
cesses that fall to the lot of the market
gardner. The care of fowls, bee keep
ing, and dairy work, are also taught
at this school. In this country we have
but one such school for girls and that
| is the Minnesota agricultural school.
| The pupils receive instruction in cook
| ing, canning, dairying, fruit and flow
er culture, household chemistry, ento-
| mology, and sewing. And button sew
| ing also, doubtless. A girl thus edu
Gated would make very accomplished
| helpmeet for an enterprising farmer,
or, as self-supporting woman, would
| be sure of remunerative occupation.
| Fruit and flower culture has of late
proved very attractive to women. Most
women are born flower lovers, and the
charm of this employment with the
healthfulness of outdoor life, have dis
posed many of them to take it up pro-
fessionally with very encouraging re-
suits. 1t would be wise and helpful
thing if some college could offer to girls
| thorough training in plant culture in
greenhouses. With one or two helpers
for rough work many woman is now
making a good living from the sale of
plants and cut flowers, while others
have gone into the business on a large
scale and are succeeding admirably.
There is room for more women workers
| in this pleasant and wholesome BUSH
ness, and there are many who would
be glad to take it up; what is needed is
the opportunity for thorough, system
attic, practical training.
The ways Of earning money, adopted
by the poorer students in the women's
colleges, show considerable ingenuity,
as we'll as energy. A girl with a
| ''knack' at millinery can always turn
| it to good advantage, and the girl with
some knowledge of dressmaking finds
/ employment for all her spare moments.
Students in the advanced classes find
some tutoring to do at from so to 70
cents an hour Then the girl who can
replace worn dress bindings, mend un-
| derclothing, put in a neat patch, or
| darn artstically a sleeve or a stocking
may always have basket full of work
! on hand If the rates of payment for
such work are not high, it has the adj
| vantage Of not being taxing, and it can
| be done with oneeye upon a text book.
| Manicuring and shampooing are useful
arts for the girl student to possess, as
| by means of them she adds materially
4 to her funds. At Cornell several girls
| pay their way by assisting in household
| duties, out of study hours, in the, homes
of professors and others interested in
| the work of the college One girl who
began the course at large college with
no other provision Ithan the money she
had saved from a. years teaching in a
country school, found that she could,
by making occasional trips to the city,
earn a considerable amount of money
| by shopping for other students AMI
teachers She registered at all the
principal stores, and they allowed her
ten per cent. on all purchases, SO that
she was able to supply her customers
at regular prices. Having good taste
and good judgment she built up quite
a business in this line and paid her
own way OF course such extra work
calls for a great amount of physical
strength and practical skill, as well as
intellectual ability That such qualfi-
cations have been granted to many
is abundantly proven by college rec
ords. In womens colleges, as in those
of men, it is often the students who
have the least outside help to depend
upon who make their way, if not most
brilliantly and triumphantly, at least
with a steadiness and seriousness of
purpose that argues well for high
achievements when college life is over