The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-16
WINNING AN EDUCATION.
HOW THE AMBITIOUS GIRL OF
 TO-DAY,
Thrown Upon Her Own Resources
 Makes Her Way Through College.

sources, and perhaps d partial loan, Then, if she is gifted with good helth and "a brave attitude towards life" she can help herself fnncialy by following some of the ways and means which
 have been proved successful. "A wo- man has power to accomplish the inn possible, and she should never fear to undertake it,' has been boldly said. It is true that for the ready, facile young
 woman, gifted with the institution ac- corded to her sex, doors are open, ways are made" Many a college girl has a positive inspiration towards helping herself.
 Among the ways and means which have been proved successful in one or another Woman's college are mending for ones more fortunate neighbols, making menu cards, drawing posters, valentines, Christmas and Easter cards, taking agencies for fountain-pens, books, athletic supplies, etc, doing amateur photography, making d varie- ty of candies, carrying on laundry or restaurant or collecting specimens for scientific purposes.
 Tutoring and clerical work are excel lent but invariably overcrowded where student tutoring is allowed, a good in come can be made by the student who, carrying her own work easily, tutors delinquent members of the college at seventy-five cents or one dollar an hour. Knowledge of stenography, together with a type writing machine or good penmanship, will almost universally help a student to help herself. For both tutoring and clerical work, however, the best opportunities are to be found in the eo-educational institutions, such as Oberlin, Michigan university and Cor nell.
 For self-eyident reasons, the more mature student is on entering college the better her chance to aid herself Stopping out for a year or two after the freshman or sophomore year, to teach or otherwise earn money for the college course, is sometimes wise plan. At Columbian university, Washington, D. C., it is possible to take two or three courses a year in evening classes, and while earning money by some daily em- ployment, in time obtain ones degree. Chicago university terms, of six weeks, with their minor" courses and twelve weeks major courses" afford wide op- portunities for college work; and Chi cago university is renowned for it's cor dial attitude towards the self helping student.
 Health is an absolute prerequisite to the student who is working her way through college. Just because she is and indefatigable. the col lege woman needs to pay all the more attention to the laws of physical we'll being, particularly if she is carrying outside work. Intellectual labor, in it. self, wisely directed, is never a cause of ill health in those who at the outset are sound in body and mind, It is la true that the health of col lege women suffers more than than of college men. Cases of overwork and nervous prostration are by no means in women's colleges. One of the New England colleges holds the re- cord of student who uttered for eight hours week during college terms in addition to her own work, taught dur ing the summer vacations, and finally broke down completely when within few weeks of obtaining her degree. But this is an extreme case and the in creasing demands on the side of physi- cal training and right regime are hope full signs.
 The question is often asked; Docs a young woman suffer social ostracism in college because of working to help herself?" Emphatically, No" Pover- ty of genial friendliness. poverty of warm heartedness, poverty of brains, may be condemned; pecuniary poverty never. Very wealthy girls do not yet go to college in great numbers, and the few who do show by the mere fact of being there that other things than purse strings or a lack of them are their concern. Smith is said to be the college in particular where girls of large means are to be found: and the gene rosity which stamps the prevailing at .itude of such girls towards those poor ar than themselves in this worlds goods Is happily famous.
 But above all, a girl working her way through college must not become a grind" or she will be unpopular among all the students. A grind is not interesting socially, and is generally ct alone-not. however because she is | poor would this happen
 A college woman naturally wants to eel herself in touch with all the pleas mt social side of college life, to sub i scribe to concert and lecture fund, 1 share in society privileges, meet college | dues, have occasional | preads with her friends, and in short, | be in things generally. To the stu | lent who has to make five hundred dol- l ars do for her what seven or eight | hundred dollars do for many another, l he following rule. formulated by one 1 vho had tried and proved it, will ap- | ,ly: First, pay as you go, and have | cry little money in the purse you car V about with you; second, never forget | hat you cannot afford what many girls an and never hesitte to sy so; nd | hird, make up your mind to enjoy life, 1 ven if you must eConomize." The anne woman adds: "A girl can go | trough college on five hundred dollars
 year -four hundred dollars being the verage cost of board and-tuition), but he will never succeed in doing this un- ass she hhs to-"
 Energy will accomplish almost eve ything in this world. Both evidence