The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-09

When business keeps you down
down some evening next month and
you are forced to seek a downtown
cafe for your evening meal observe
with more than your customary atten-
ton your waiter. If he happens to be
Young man. It Is possible that he is
just the ordinary young man Of his
class with no ambition beyond the at
tainn2ent OF head waiter dignity: but
1t is just as possible that he is an am
bilious youth struggling for a degree
and that underneath the lapel Of his
coat there is a University Of Mime
sofa pin, perhaps a frat" pin. For to
the credit Of the University Of Mime
sofa be it said the fact that q young
man OF a young woman has to work his
or her way through college is not ostra-
cised socially, in other words, is not
debarred from the fraternities. Social
gifts make fer social preferment and it
matters not whether those are pos
sessed by the student who earns the
money for his education or by him who
is provided with q l'tlral allowance.
Last year there were 1856 men who
paid at least part of the years ex-
penses by doing odd Jobs. OF these,
sixty had permanent employment. The
others did whatever their hands found
to do, The majority Of them found en-
ployment as walters either in the cafes
OF the Twin Cities or in the boarding
houses that cluster about the college
buildings. A preference is shown for
this occupation for the reason that it
demands no previous experience and
the duties are easily learned, And the
restaurants are glad to accept the
services of these student walters, for
no proprietor of q resi- urant has ap-
parently yet discovered that a tray is
carried less steadily when copy Of
Horace protrudes from the walters
pocket or that the waiter jumbles his
orders in his efforts to keep firmly
fixed in his mind Greek roots.
The University Of Minnesota coed is
not so TentureSome as her brother.
Seldom is she willing or has she the
courage to face a college year with an
absolutely empty purse, but many Of
the co-edS come to the "U" with an as
toniShingly small amount of money,
yet manage to get through with no diff
ficulty, thanks to their capable hands
and ninlbe wits. And, of course, there
have been a few girls who have come
to the college with only enough money
to pay the usual fees and weeks
board in advance, perhaps, and these
have finished their course with honor.
Unlike her brother, the coed does
not select waiting. as the occupation
that will carry her through the "U"
with flying colors Though she is
stanch believer in the higher educa-
ton for woman she is a home body and
she seeks home occupations. Like
pretty Martha in the opera she can
bake and brew and mend and do
number of other useful things that
furnish her with a generous amount of
spending money. One of the most pop
u1ar girls at the "U" last winter and a
merlber of the most exclusive frat"
was she who filed dainty white boxes
with Judges of her own making and
sold them to the other goods for a
quarter box. That girl had absolutely
no income for clothes and incidentals
when she entered the ~" but her
fame as a candyInaker has spread be-
yond the walls of the university and,
as consequence, she is one Of the best
dressed girls Of her class.
= Time was-and not more than ten
years ago, eitheT-when the young
men or young women who had little
money, but q great thirst for educa ton,
were forced to depend on their own eff
forts entirely or on the good will of
friends to obtain for them employ
ment that would enable them to earn
suff1cient money to pay the expenses
of their education. Occasionally then
a member of the faculty put himself
out to assist an ambitious student, but
as rule the latter had to trust to
himself and luck. For the past half