The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-21

Exc Out the Slender Supply from Home by
Doing Odd Jobs for Their Weather
School Mates-One shampooed the Other
Girls-Brave Struggles for Education.
Hundreds of young women in vari-
Gus institutions of learning are the
daughters of men with moderate N
comes, who are obliged to make sacrA-
fees and exercise the strictest econo-
my in order to meet the necessary col
lege expenses. But they are able to
do this, and do not desire their daugh-
tiers to avail themselves of the various
helps offered by many colleges to abb
solutely needy students, to girls who
must work their way through" They
know that the actual work of the
school is enough, and do not wish their
daughters to add to it the burden of
their own support, while they are able
to pay the bills.
Yet when one of these girls gets into
the little college world, she finds there
are many things she wants that she
doesn't just like to ask her father to
pay for. She knows just what her peo-
pie are doing for her in order that she
may fulfill the desire of her young life
and "go to college," She knows what
her mother is doing without, and what
her father is giving up for her, and,
though young, she is too much of a
woman to add to their sacrifices.
Some of the ways by which college
girls save or earn money are quite in
teresting. For instance, the average
cost of books and laboratory fees is
$50 yearly But a student can save
large portion of her book bills by rent
ing the volumes from student in an
upper class. The fees are very small,
in some schools only twenty-five cents
a semester for a book worth 81 and
over, and fifteen cents for one of less
price. OF course, the books must be
returned in good condition to be pass
ed on to another student, and while
the borrower saves by the transaction
the lender adds to her scanty store of
pin money.
A girl conceived the happy idea of
shampooing the heads of her fellow
students at a less price than was
charged by the professionals in the
town. Now, girls who go in for ath-
letics and bath good deal always feel
the desire of a shampoo for the head
sometimes oftener than is really neces-
sary, and it is something they cannot
do for themselves, especially if they
have an abundance of hair. So this
girl has all she can do in her leisure
time, and as she made her clients fur
nlSh their own towels and soap it was
all clear gain.
A funny idea, yet eminently practi-
cal when one stops to consider it, was
that, of college girl who stretched
new shoes and boots for her well-to-
do sisters. She must have had foot
that would fit anything" but she did
her work along this line successfully,
and made some money at it, too.
College girls hate to do their mend
ing, and as their clothing is not in
spected by any lynx-eyed matron as
was formerly the custom in the aver
age female seminary, it is to be feared
that they are often untidy in this re-
spect. A student who was handy with
her needle, and who was DESTROYS of
such work, was overwhelmed with
mending of all kinds. In fact, she
might have spent all her time in re-
pairing if she had chosen to do so. Her
charges were moderate, but she made
good thing out of it.
Girls in the upper classes are we'll
paid for tutoring those unfortunates
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course, they must be good scholars,
and have a talent for teaching. 1t
helps them, too, by keeping them I'D
in the studies they have left behind,
but which they may be called upon to
teach when they have left school.
1t is the custom in some colleges to
post notices on the bulletin boards of
the various pursuits students wish to
engage in to make a little money and
the applications of those needing their
help are generally numerous.
At Wellesley one of the students
Tets car tickets" Boston is so near
that the students are always running
in for something or other on their
recreation day. Each ticket bought in
a book containing fifty is only-one-
half the price Of single ticket. This
student purchases several books, which
she rented to others, charging them
five cents per ticket more than she
paid. So that was transaction which
did good in two directions. 1t helped
the one who loaned as well as the one
who borrowed.