The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-02-18
FOR COLLEGE GIRLS.
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VARIOUS SCHEMES BY WHICH
THEY EARN MONEY.
aiathering In the Shekels--Let Their
Hands Save Their Heads - Amuse
People at Resorts, Teach Them to
Swim, Talk and Play Whist.

TOO, as 1t she had been born Ill the
water, and her pupils learned to swim
IN short order, says the New York
Commercial Advertiser. She could
dig clans like native, wade streams
Tor trout with the enthusiasm of a
fisherman, or, if need was, manage
amateur theatricals, dances or corn
roasts, so that the guests departed
happy, blessing the evening and their
hostess. All these things she did for
her own pleasure. Without money
and without price she devoted herself
to being the life of the place where
she spent her summers. But one day
poverty fell upon her with a sudden
sWoop. The next year of college
seemed entirely out of the question,
so she took counsel with herself, made
several calls upon her friends, and
When the season opened presented her
self promptly at the hotel where she
had SO often been a guest as COM
mander-in-chief of it's social activities.
The proprietor understood her value
and paid her price. Her intimate
friends were in the secret and the so
cial functions during the summer went
off as naturally as they had in any
former year. She taught the swim
ming class by scientific method and
charged as she would for a course Of
lectures. The reward for her success
was the ability to present herself at
the college doors the next fall with
a sum large enough to give her anoth-
er year. In college girl who earns
her own way has many opportunities
open to her. If she feels so inclined
she may tutor, do typewriting or work
in the library. If her disposition re-
be1S against these conventional pur-
suits and she is clever with her pen
she can do correspondence work for
she is sure Of orders at Christmas,
around st. Valentines day and for
birthdays during the year, and she
will have to work diligently sketching,
copying Gibson pictures Or making
some specially of her own to meet the
demand in the busy season. The blue
print trade seems one of doubtful prof.
1t, but, Notwithstanding, it is carried
on in all colleges with great assiduity
Nothing On the earth or of it is safe
from the camera. But kodaks, in their
connection with college visitors, are
especially interesting. If a great man
could return to college the morning
after he had left it he might find food
for thought and merriment He would
understand then the meaning of the
strange clicks that he had heard from
time to time during the progress of
mis- stay. For, covering the students
bulletin board on every side, he would
see himself IN varying tints OF blue,
caught in every attitude, with every
conceivable expression, looking out
from squares, oblongs, circles and tri-
angles, each posted at the top of
long strip of paper. By noon he might
be fattered to find these papers all
covered with orders for his picture.
Competition is so sharp that each blue
print is taken, developed, printed, fin
ished and delivered for cents. Col
1ege views and pictures of students
never command more than this price,
but sometimes if a visitor is very dis
dInguished, or if he is particularly
difficult subject, he is not sold for less
than cents; sometimes he brings ev-
en- 8 or 10. Mending, sewing on shoe
buttons, making beds around the time
of midyears and finals are occupations
more or less remunerative for odd
moments; so, also, is the renting of
academic books. But these devices are
useful rather for the girls who exc
out slender income by means of
them than for those dependent on
their own efforts for bread and but
ter. Such girls must take the matter
more seriously or dire will be the con-
sequences. Sometimes they make gym
suits for a class of 300, cook their own
meals, teach in the town schools, make
Shirtwaists by the dozen in the spring.
And formerly when a girl was as will
ing as now to do whatever her hand
found to do it seemed as if Providence
took advantage of her willingness and
imposed very disagreeable tasks upon
her. The position of waitress in some
summer hotel or boarding house ap-
peared the only alternative to pound
ing Latin and Greek into some stupid
youngsters head when the poor COL
1ege students own brain muscles were
so weary that they could scarcely be
whipped into activity. But the odious
Accomplishments of waitress position
were far and away more wearing
the hot kitchen; the full, noisy din
ing-room; the nouveau richie poten-
tate, who pounded the table and roared
like a bull of Bashan for the menu;
the eternal dishes to be washed and
wiped; then the respite of hard bed
and bad dreams of smiles and winks
and tips from Turing men. The lines
of the self-supporting girl fell to her
in very hard places. But now she
can live like a princess, provided she
finds the good fairy in her own origi-
nality. One girl achieved college as
the reward of untiring diligence in
getting subscriptions for magazine.
Another, out OF health somewhat and
very much out of pocket, with one of
her cOmDaniOnS similiar1y afflicted