Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1896-04-30
woMAN8 WORLD M PARAGRAPHS.
Occupations and Pay Of Ladies who Are
College Graduates.

Occupations and Pay Of Ladies Who Are
College Graduates.
The Association ot Collegiate AlumnR
furnishes perhaps the most interesting
chapter ID the last annual report Of
Massachusetts The association took Old
itself the task Of searching out the oc-
cupations Of it, members and finding
the rate of their pay Az compared with
that Of men in tile same work The re-
port is full Of encouragement for All
women. 1t also shows the advantage tx
woman Of college education anc
diploma I'D tile questions i'll tile circu
lar issued BY tile association 400 replies
were received from ali parts of TIKI
country. Nearly 200 members reportea
that they were teaching. That ~ mat
ter Of course "A fourth Of those reply
ing were stenographers and Librarians
The rest were chiefly engaged in clerk
ing and bookkeeping, or We're nurses or
newspaper women. -Four out oT the 400
received iu wages over 5000 a month.
Only six g0t less than $25 a month,
which is very low Pay for a college bred
woman. But three-quarters Of the
whole number received $50 tO 500 4
month, and THE average of all was $40
d month. That IL very good indeed fur
these hard times. of those replying to
the question as to how their Day com
pared with that 0f men engaged lid The
same occupations. three-ffths answered
that they received less than men did.
Since about huff of the college women
answering We're engaged i'll teaching.
the discrepancy j. not hard To under
stand, because the ranks Of women
teachers are so crowded that they must
beat one another down. But, Oh tile
other hand, tw0-hfths Of those replying
answered that they got the same pay a.
men did for the same work, which j.
cheerful information. All indicates
decided industrial advance for women,
and the industrial advance il the Key to
the whole situation. Make women pei
cuniarily independent and they will be
free il all other ways. Neither relatives
nor the law, neither husbands nor sOci-
ETY., will dare to mistreat the woman
with a pocket full of money which she
has earned herself, ana which she can
add to constantly. You girls and women
with q career to make, prepare your
selves thoroughly for "A chosen work and
do il with All your soul Especially go
into business for yourselves That y The
way to get rich.
1t j. known perhaps to few people
that the business manager uf Theodore
Thomas great orchestra il 4 woman, q
young woman at that. / find an admi
rahle sketch of her id The New York
Journal She il Miss Anna Millar, a
western girl had almost said W west
ern girl, of course '' On second thoughts,
however, n Will hot say that. Miss Mil
Tar was born I'D Iowa, ut Muscatine. In
the fail of 1893 U sirl friend Of hers was
anxions to go to Europe ana Get mn
steal education Miss Millar undertook
the management Uf a benefit concert fol
her. 81 successful was it that iii turned
her attention tO THE managerial field
She had hired THE Thomas orchestra for
her friends concert Then she hired thc
orchestra for some subscription concert
she herself organized. Then She under
took the whole management of i'd ana
has been so successful that it, receipts
have swelled largely since her advent a5
it, head. She engages All the perform
ers, gives them their place on the stage,
makes all the dates and even caters fo- Y
the whole band. admire extravagantIT
this girl who shows what executive
ability ami talent for organization
woman has
Mrs Frances Hardin Hess il tie able
atalogner ef the library Of the Uniyer-
ity Of the City of New York.
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER.