The sun., 1903-10-18

shirt waists and turnovers, or collarettes,
and at hemstitching handkerchiefs. One
| makes a speciality Of getting up exclusive
| designs for turnovers and selling them TO
| fastdious girls who want to have some
| thing different from anybody else.
Just before the holidays is the harvest
time for these girls. Most of the students
| little festivities that they haven't time to
| prepare Christmas presents of the labor
! Of love sort, so they call on the experts.
4The hemstitched handkerchiefs, the
| college pillows, the pictures in frames
decorated with pretty little water color
| designs, look as If they We're the handiwork
| Of the donor of the gift. AS long as moth
| ing Is said they do just as well as though
| they really were, and a girl hasn't taken
| valuable time from her studies.
Another way in which girls, who are
clever with pencil and paints make money
| Is to get up charts for the biological lect.
ures They make colored pictures OF
leaves, and sections OF flowers and woods.
and the bodies Of animals,
The library, too, gives empioyment5
TO lot OF students. They do all the caro-
cataloging for pay, and to some of them
| the books that are damaged in one way or
another are given to rejuvenate.
TO descend from the library to the
| dormitory kitchen, there are girls who
mako fudge that is SO fine that they have
no trouble at all in selling it, and some
take orders for cake and sandwiches Tor
the little banquets in the rooms.
Now and then a student gives function
that is quite pret entious, and If she is at all
| fussy about such things she wants 70 nave
her menu cards handpainted. These, OF
| course, are very nice at the tea or dinner,
and are priced as souvenirs. The pre-
| pairing Of the cards Is source OF income
| to number of artistic girls,
! These are the little ways which help.
| girls at Vassar and other colleges to get
through. Tutoring is still the main way.
An undergraduate tutor can keep busy IN
examination times. with pupils at IS cents
or 81 an hour, and I've known those who
have regulations to receive as much as u
an hour
| The services of graduate tutors, women
who are taking post graduate courses,
sometimes bring much more. ! know OF
ono who made about 81 200 during the
| collegiate year, and another, who Is at one
| OF the prominent womens colleges, Is sald
| to derive an annual income Of three or four
| thousand dollars from this work. Her sue
| cess is due to her reputation OF so drilling
her. pupils that they never funk at examl-
| nations
At Columbia University, in addition to the
Students Exchange Of Barnard, is an or
| ganization devoted to devisng ways and
means by which students Of both sexes may
make money when they are not in class or
studying. A man has charge OF this
1The trouble with the girls" he said, 'ls
that not many Of them are strong enough
to keep their college work up to the mark
and at the Same time do something else
This is not their fault, of course, but 1t re-
suits in the boys making a good deal more
than they do.
MY records show that students here
earned, altogether about s25 600 during the
vacation just ended and that number of
them are still making incomes that | think
are rather remarkable, considering the
fact that they are kept pretty busy here
with their studies.
"Two brothers, for instance, have made
between them about 81 900 since college
| closed in June. They spent the summer at
a fashionable ashore resort where one
! Of them, though he is under 25, gave lect-
ures on physiology to women.
"Fis brother made nearly as large a sum
bv organizing a club, of boys at the resort
He superintended their swimming and
sailing and tennis, got up games for them
and, in general saw that they had good
| time without running into danger or getting
into mischief
"Some of the Columbia boys were cap
tans Of Board OF, Education play centres
| this summer--rathcr strenuous work,
should Judge, from the fact that one of them
! had an arm broken and another has a
| broken nose as a memento Of his labors at
| the playground.
| AOne OF our boys made about $3.50 during
| the summer pasteurizing milk Others were
| life insurance agents, earning from $500 to
| 81 .OO0: travelling saesmen who averaged
| about s4O0; bank clerks, civil service moni-
tors, hotel employees, and two were trolley
conductors.