The sun., 1903-10-18
COLLEGE GIRLS EARN MONEY.
BARNARD HAS JUST OPENED THE
FIRST STUDENTS EXCHANGE.
Everything From Shirt Waists to Fudge
Sold There-Financial Schemes at
yassar-Lrut0rlnE Pays Best-The Boys
Able to Earn More Than tho Girls.


we've become merchants-a sort Of
| pygny 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.
! Wore quite businesslike, you notice.
| 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'vc been coupling the
running Of the exchange with Jelly making.
| Another girl has been baking cake, and
candy makers 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.
4The purpose of it all is, Of course. to give
students opportunities to earn money that
will help them to pay their cole &c expenses.
There are committees on employment
for students in most of the wonen's col
leges, but an exchange in college is,
think, quite a new idea.
"We haven't been organized long enough
to know just how we will come out, but 30
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 pen
| 70 Jaoorota lppe and Qt
the games. One OF the classes wants
big banner. We are bidding on that.
@The girls are also encouraged to make
shirt waists and collarettes, and think that
some who are clever with colors will be
able to earn money by decorating the big
| handpainted buttons fashionable now.
And then there are college pillows to
be made and typewriting to de done We
nut students in the way of typewrting
the lectures of the professors and the theses
of the students at the end OF the term.
Since the opening of college we have
been very busy selling second hand text
books which have served their purpose
for one class and are passed down to tho
next below The dealers in this neighbor-
, hood 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 benefit OF the ex-
change.
"Women students ordinarily find 1t 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 OF trucks in election
time, you know.
Heretofore, about all they have been
able to do at Barnard to make money has
been to tutor. This still remains the chief
occupation, and probably the most lucra-
tive. But we are doing our best TO show
that there are plenty Of other ways, and
that capable girl need not forego COL
lege education for lack OF means"
"At Vassar,' remarked young woman
who studies there, we have nothing like
an exchange but the girls resort to various
and ingenious ways Of making money
1T is quite fad with the Vassar girls
in the swim in this respect many who are
| amply provided for 90 things that they
would never dream of doing at home.
~I remember one day last term running
across a girl, very prominent in her class,
down on her knees, her hands black and
asked how she could do it, and she informed
mo that all honest labor was dignitled.
She said, further, that she was getting so
cents for the job.
4She was just beginning on the wheel
when spoke to her. ! saw her again in
about three-qlarters Of an hour BY this
time she was standing up, looking down
at the bicycle in a disguised sort of way.
| -She told me she had decided that there
were some kinds of labor that weren't
aigniGed, after all, and that she didn't
propose to rub any more spokes, even If
she uia get so cents for 1t. That same
girl used to give shampoos to others.
"One Of the brightest girls In college goes
around TO the rooms every week or 30
for stockings that need darning But
her work isn't all 50 commonplace as this.
at is quite the thing, you know, to have
monograms or initials, oil. even the first
name embroidered on underwear, and at
| Vassar the students like to have them also
| on their stockings, somewhere near tho
| instep. Some Of the most luxurious ones
| often have the class colors, or even mottos,
| embroidered there.
| swell. this girl is an adept Mt that. Others
| do 1t, too, and as q result are quite wealthy
| In pocket money.
/ "A few of the girs aro oxpert at naltu =