The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-08

We've become merchants sort of
pigmy department store. We are glad
to receive and sell anything from shirt
waists to fudge"
The speaker was the undergraduate
manager of the Students Exchange
which has recently been organized at
Barnard college.
Were quite businesslike, youe no.
tice,' she went on, glancing around the
office of the exchange in the college
building. THE faculty has given us
this room. We have office hours every
day, and are doing lot of things that
| couldn't exactly be called scholastic.
For instance, I've been coupling the
running of the exchange with jelly
making. Another girl has been baking
cake, and candymakers are coming to
| the front. These things are for the
spreads the girls give so often. We are
also prepared to supply sandwiches and
! salads on order.
1.-THE purpose of it all is, of course,
| to give students opportunities to earn
money that will help them to pay their
| college expenses. There are committees
| on employment for students in most OF
| the women's colleges, but an exchange
| in a college is, I think, quite new
] idea.
| I'VE havn't been organized long
| enough to know just how we will come
| out, but so far all>the indications are
! that we will be successful. There are
| any number of things a clever girl can
| do for others who happen to have more
money than she has
| Some of the students have been
quite busy lately making college flags
and remnants to decorate dens and to
| wave at the games. One OF the classes
| wants a big banner. We are bidding
/ on that.
| 1.-The girls are also encouraged to
| make shirt waists and co1larettes. and
4 think that some who are clever with
| colors will be able to earn money by
! decorating the big hand painted but
| tons fashionable now.
| And then there are college pillows
+! to be made, and typewriting to be
| done. We put students In the way OF
| typewriting the lectures Of the pro-
| fessors and the theses of the students
at the end of the term.
"Since the opening of college we have
been very busy selling secondhand
| text books which have served their pur-
! pose for one class and are passed down
to the next below. The dealers in this
neighborhood have been doing this. but
We give a girl more for her books than
they do and sell them for less. (. In fact
| we take out just per cent for the ben
| eft of the exchange.
| Women students ordinarily find II
much harder than men to earn money
in college, because they can't of course
turn their hand to nearly as many
things. They can't be watchers at the
polls or spell binders on the ends o.
| trucks in election time you know.
Heretofore. about all they have beer
able to do at Barnard to make none!
has been to tutor. This still remains
the chief occupation, and probably thu
| most lucrative But we are doing ou
best to show that there are plenty o
| other ways, and that a capable CIR
| need not forego a college education fo
lac kof means"
"At Vassar," remarked young
| woman who studies there. I'VE have
nothing like an exchange, but the girl:
resort to various and ingenious ways
of making money
1T Is quite a fad with the Vassal
girls to earn their own pocket money
and to be In the swim in this respec
many who are amply provided for d.
things that they would never dream o
doing at home.
| L remember one day last term run
ming across a girl. very prominent Il
her class, down on her knees, he
hands black and greasy with oil, clean