Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-13
VACATION WORKERS
College Girls VINO Work to
Pay for Education.
HARVEST TIME rs NEAR
SOME OF THEM COACH THEIR
DULLER COMPANIONS.
Others as Mattresses or Entertainers
at Hotels and
Resorts.
HARVEST TIME rs NEAR
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star.
With the approach of commencement day
the all-important question which comes to
self-sustaining undergraduate faces more
difficult and serious problem, How can I
support myself through the vacation and
lay aside something toward my expenses
for next term?"
The young woman who is determined to
work her way through the four-year col
lege course regards the summer vacation as
veritable harvest time, with dollars for
her crop. From the middle of June until
the middle Of September she executes those
little triumphs of ingenuity which pave the
way for nine months more at her beloved
institution of learning. If she Is wise as
well as ingenious, she has her plans made
before the college doors shut for the vaca-
ton period.
Naturally, she first turns her attention to
lines OF work in which she can make use
OF the learning acquired during the past
term. One of the most popular means Of
raising funds Is coaching" students in the
same college who have been Conditioned
or have failed utterly in their examina-
tons. Strangely enough the majority Of
these summer pupils are not drawn from
the homes Of the wealthy; they are not
girls whose interest in social matters has
college professors and educationists. Just
as the sons of industrial magnates fire.
quently develop into most irresponsible
business men, SO the children Of very
learned men show singular inaptitude
for the arts and sciences.
The member of college or school fac
ulty whose daughter has failed or been
conditioned feels personally disgraced
her properly coached during the summer
He does not coach her himself for two rea-
sons-hrst, because she may have failed in
a branch remotely removed from the line
he teaches, and, second, because the stu
dent who has just passed the examinations
in which his daughter failed is up-to-date
on the topic and posted on trick uues-
tons.
A Glass Of Conditioned Students.
New England girl has doubly solved
the problem of summer employment by
using both her newly acquired stock of
learning and her ancestral farm. The lat
ter Is a picturesque but barren hillside in
the heart of the Berkshires with an old
fashioned, rambling house. Here she gath
cred the members of her summer class for
a months work. combined delightfully."- with
outdoor life. Her mother acted as chape-
ron and was capable housekeeper for the
family of eight. A neighbours boy did the
rough work and tended the garden. which
supplied fresh fruit and vegetables for the
table.
Some of the pupils had their cycles. and
horses could be hired at reasonable rates
from neighboring farmers. Fishing and
boating were enjoyed on a pond at the foot
OF the nil, and the, woods abounded in wild
berries and specimens" Certain hours
were set aside for studying and coaching,
and nothing was allowed to interfere with
the work, though Lenox was enticingly
near.
When the first month was over. several of
the girls decided to remain longer and were
joined by other friends, and though
coaching was abandoned mother and
daughter made substantial sum from
their summer boarders. This year they
will conduct the summer school on a larger
SCALE and the farm which hitherto had
grudglngiy yielded enough to pay the
college.
Camping in the Woods.
frequently girls of small incomes club
together and camp out in the woods of
Maine or other picturesque sections of New
England living an outdoor life at an ex-
tremely low figure and gaining strength to
take up coaching during the opening
months of the school term. Even a chap
eron Is dispensed with by these strictly
modern camping parties, and they live as
simply and frugally as men do under SINH
lar circumstances.
But the average self-sustaining college
funds earned during the rest of the wear.
and storing up strength to renew the fight
She wants to see a weekly stipend coming
In, and If any one is willing to pay for the
pleasure OF her company during the sum-
mer she Is quite willing to play the part of
companion
Busy, wealthy parents who desire their
children to expand mentally and physically
curing the summer vacation, and perhaps
to work on lines denied to them during their
childhood, prefer college girl to a French
soVerness during the summer The French
governess seldom gets beyond book covers
Working for Millionaire.
A Wellesley girl In search Of summer en-
ployment was requested by a mutual ac-
quaintance to call upon millionaire noted
for his lron-clad business methods and a
heart which was supposed to be as hard
AS she entered his office he CURLY dismissed
his stenographer and turned to his caller
saying:
Driving down to the station this morn
our carthage. 1t had on the under side
some queer little red things like tiny eggs
rough to the touch What were they?''
The college girl explained the larvae de-
listened attentively Then he asked WIN
certain leaves showed one colorinp when
the wind blew from the north and another
when 1T blew from the south. In fact he
pus eiiS on tiiouSi TdplO-lre eXamina-
ton. watching her SO narrowly that she
thought he was an authority on botany
AS abruptly as he had opened the CONVEX
sation he closed it.
Il think you know what you are talking
about. I've never had time to study leaves
and flowers and outdoor life, and it annoys
me when my children ask me fool questions
l cannot answer Teach 'em all Won know
but don't ram 1t in so fast that they'll tire
OF 1t. Make 1t play. VIII $25 a week and
your board at our place be satisfactory?
Very well. Good morning"
The young woman spent a delightful
summer, with servants at her command
dainty apartments and good living, simply
because she knew botany, and pleased the
whim of a man who was willing to nav the
price for having that within gratifed The
mother and father were away much of the
time, and the girl was practically the mis-
tress of their beautiful country home
Companions to Petted Wives,
Another peculiar mission which came to
an undergraduate was that of companion
to petted young wife and mother She
was city girl, whose one idea of a sum-
mer's vacation was the incessant gayety
of a fashionable resort. But with the COM
ing of her children her husband insisted
upon a summer home in the suburbs and
in turn his wife insisted upon having a
young and entertaining companion. Though
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