The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-08
College Girls Make Money
By Going In For Trade.

ing a bicycle. I asked how she could
do it, and she informed me that ali
honest labor was dignified. She said.
further, that she was getting so cents
for the job.
She was just beginning on the
wheel when l spoke to her. I saw her
again in about three-quarters of an
hour. BY this time she was standing
up, looking down at the bicycle in q
disguised sort of way
She told me she had decided that
there were some kinds of labor that
weren't dignified, after all, and that
she didn't propose to rub any moro
spokes. even if she did get so cents for
IL. That same girl used to give sham
poos to others.
One of the brightest girls in COL
lege goes around to the rooms every
week or SO for stockings that need
earning. But her work isn't all so
commonplace as this.
1t is quite the thing, you know, to
have monograms Or initials, or even
the first name, embroidered on under
wear, and at Vassar the students like
to have them also OH their stockings,
somewhere near the instep. Some OF
| the most luxurious ones often have the
ciass colors, or even mottos, embroid-
cred there.
Others do II, too, and as a result are
| quite wealthy in pocket money.
"A few of the girls are expert at
making sh1rtwaists and turnovers, or
collarettes, and at hemstitching hand
kerchiefs. One makes a speciality OF
getting up exclusive designs for turn
overs and selling them to fastidious
girls who want to have something diff
ferent from anybody else.
| Just before the HOLIDAYS ia the harvest
| time for these girls. Most of the students
are SO busy with college work and with
| little festivities that they haven't time to
| prepare Christmas presents of the labor
| of love sort. so they call on the experts.
THE hemstitched handkerchiefs, the
| college pillows, the pictures in frames
| decorated with pretty little water color
| designs, look as If they were the handi-
| work of the donor of the gift. AS long as
| nothing is said they do just as Well as
| though they really were and 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 leo
lures. They make colored pictures OF
leaves. and sections of flowers and woods,
| and the bodies of animals.
The library, too, gives employment to
| a lot or students They do all the card
cataloging for pay, and to some of them
| the DOCKS that are damaged in one way or
| another are given to rejuvenate.
| ITO descend from the library to the
! dormitory kitchen, there are girls who
| make fudge that is so fine that they have
| no trouble at all in selling 1t, and some
| take orders for cake and sandwiches for
| the little banquets in the rooms.
| Now and then student gives a func-
| tion that Is quite pretentious, and If she
Is at all fussy about such things she
wants to have her menu cards handpaint-
! ed. These, OF course, are very nice at the
tea or dinner, and are priced as SOU
| venirs. The preparing of the cards is a
| source of income to number of artis-
tic girls.
'"rhese 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
eXamina ton times with pupils at 70 cents
| or 81 an hour. and I've known those who
have regulations to receive as much as ~
| an hour.
1.-The services of graduate tutors. WON
en- who are taking post graduate courses
| sometimes bring much more, | know OF
one who made about $1,000 during the
collegiate year. and another, who Is at one
of the prominent womens colleges, Is sale
| to derive an annual income of three Of
four thousand dollars from this work
| Her success is due to her reputation of 81
drilling her pupils that they never flunl
| at examinations