The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-03-01
WINNING AN EDUCATION.
HOW GIRLS MAKE THEIR WAY
THROUGH COLLEGE.

HOW GIRLS MAKE THEIR WAY
THROUGH COLLEGE.
Many a Girl Has a Positive inspira-
ton Towards Helping Hersek-
Ia an Absolute Prerequisite to the
Student Working Her Way.
Many an ambitious girl Is forced
to take her place in college with what
money she can muster for her own
resources, and perhaps partial loan.
Then, If she is gifted with good
health and "a brave attitude towards
life." she can help herself financially
by following some of the ways and
means which have been proved sue
eessful. "a woman has power to &C
complish the impossible, and she
should never fear to undertake it"
has been boldly said II is true that
for the ready, facile young woman,
gifted with the intuition accorded 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 mend
ing for ones more fortunate neigh
bors, making menu cards, drawing
posters. valentines, Christmas and
Easter cards, taking agencies for
fountain-pens, books, athletic supplies,
ETC., doing amateur photography,
making a variety Of candies, carrying
on a laundry or restaurant, or col
lecting specimens for scientific pur-
poses.
Tutoring and clerical work are ex-
cellent but invariably over-crowded
avenues of self-help. In colleges
where student tutoring is allowed,
good income can be made by the stu
dent who, carrying her own work
easily. tutors delinquent members OF
the college at seventy-fve cents or
81 an hour. knowledge of stenog-
raphy, together with a typewriting
machine or good pehmanship, will
almost universally help student to
help herself. For both tutoring and
clerical work, however, the best op-
portunities are to be found in the CO.
educational institutions, such as ODER
lin, Michigan University, and Cornell.
For self-evident reasons, the more
mature a student is on entering col
lege the better her chance to aid her
self. Stopping out for a year or
two after the freshman or sophomore
yearfi to teach Or otherwise earn
money for the college course, is
sometimes a wise plan. At Column
bia 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
employment, in time obtain ones de-
gree Chicago University terms, OF
six weeks, with their minor courses
and twelve weeks major courses
afford wide opportunities for college
work; and Chicago University is re-
nowned for it's cordial attitude tow
| ards the self-helping student.
Health is an absolute prerequisite
to the student who fs working her
way through college. Just because
she is conscientious and interchangeable.
| the college woman needs to pay all
| the more attention to the laws of phy-
| steal well-being, particularly if she is
carrying outside work. Intellectual
| labor, in itself, wisely directed, is
/ never a cause of i'll health in those
who at the outset are sound in body
and mind. 1t is lamentably true that
| the health of college women suffers
more than that of college men. Cases
of overwork and nervous prostration
are by no means infequent in wo'
mems colleges. One Of the New Eng
| land colleges holds the record of a
student who tutored for eight hours a
week during college terms in addition
to her own work, Taught during the
summer vacations, and finally broke
down completely when within few
6eeks of obtaining her degree But
this l. an extreme case, and the in.
ereasing demands on che side of ply
steal training and right regime are
hopeful signs.
The question is often asked: "Does
q young woman suffer social ostracism
in college because of working to help
herself?" Emphatically, "No." Pow.
erty of genial friendliness, poverty OF
warmheartedness. poverty of brains
may be condepned; pecuniary pow
erty never. Very wealthy girls dc
not yet go to college in great NUM-
bers, and the few who do show by
the mere fact of being there that other
things than purse strings or lack oil
them are their concern. Smith is
said to be the college in particular
where girls of large means are to Be
found; and the generosity which
stamps the prevailing attitude of such
girls towards thoR poorer than them
selves in this worlds goods is happily
| famous.
But above all, a girl working her
way through college must not become
grind or she will be unpopular
among all the students. A grind
is not interesting socially. and is gen
orally let alone-not, however, be-
cause she is poor" would this hap
pen.
A college woman naturally wants
to feel herself in touch with all the
pleasant social side of college life, to
subscribe to concert and lecture fund
share In society privileges, meet col
| lege settlement dues, have occasional
spreads with her friends. and in short
"be in things" generally. To the stu.
dent who has to make $500 do for her
what 500 or $500 do for many an
other, the following rule. formulated
| by one who had tried and proved it.
| will apply: First pay as you go. and
have very little money in the purse