The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-14
COLLEGE GIRLS AS
VACATION WORKERS
For Those Who Have to Make Their Way Through College
Summer Is the Harvest Time Sometimes They Coach
Their DuIer Fellow Students

time and the girl was practically the
mistress of their beautiful country
home.
Companions to Petted Wives.
Another peculiar mission which came
to an undergraduate was that OF COM
panion to a petted young wife and
mother. She was a city girl, whose
one idea of a summers vacation was
the incessant gayety of a fashionable
resort. But with the coming 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 she has the prospect of much
company at intervals, she did not pro-
pose to be left alone a. single day A
vivacious college girl secured the po-
sition for her. 1t paid we'll The prin-
cipal drawbacks We're the incessant re-
pining Of the wife and the rather vapid
guests entertained at her home.
A clever girl, with pleasing address
and gift for inventing amusements,
can secure employment at summer
hotels in assisting the management to
amuse the guests. There are many
summer holiday makers who have no
resources and must be planned for like
so many helpless, peevish children. The
ties, the clam bakes, the private the
atricals for rainy nights, the euchres,
ana, II she plays and sings, is always
at the command of the unsteady In
clined. She works with the manager
in planning the big dances and securing
favors for the germans. Her stipend
depends largely upon her usefulness
and powers of attraction-for women
guests. The girl who is too attractive
to men defeats the purpose of her en-
ployers. Men are too valuable at sum-
mer resort, too much In de-
mand, TO be wasted on a paid EN-
ploye. Some girls make only their
board and a few incidental expenses.
Others draw small salaries, which they
can augment by acting as correspond
ent for city papers.
Mattresses in summer Hotels.
In New England and the Midwest
States college girls take positions as
Mattresses in summer hotels, and, as
hotel help Is well paid, they lay aside
comfortable nest egg for the fall
term.
A Philadelphia girl. who travelled
abroad before meeting financial re-
verses, completed her college course by
acting as guide for summer tourists,
organizing parties of teachers. For
this work she not only utilized the in
formation and experience she had
gained while travelling with her par
/ ents, but she studied routes and maps,
until she could conduct her tours on
the most economical plan. She Is now a
teacher in a fashionable school, and
her summers are spent in Europe at
the head of clubs formed among her
pupils.
The college girl who seeks summer
employment must guard against adopt
ing line of work which will lead her
from her educational interests. A
bright young woman from Wellesley,
possessed of dainty but not brilliant
singing voice, was induced by we'll
meaning friends to Join the chorus OF
an opera company which was giving
summer productions. Her salary of
SIS a week was alluring, and the man.
ager, seeing her pretty face and vivac-
ity, promised her better things. To-
day she Is dancing in one Of the lead
ing Broadway productions, all thought
of her college course driven from her
head. She may score a brilliant sue
cess in her Unexpectedly found profess
sion, but musical comedy is hardly the
best preparation for serious dramatic
work.
A short Cut to MatrimOny.
Summer employment for the col
lege girl sometimes proves to be the
straight and narrow path to matri-
mony,f and many a career of learning
is stopped by Cupid arrsyed in sum-
mer raiment. The college girl is
never treated as a servant or a hire
ling In a well-regulated home. A cer-
tain Difference is accorded her alma
mater. and she is thrown into society
which other girls possessed of the
same income do not reach. Here she
sometimes meets her fate, and the
question of how to pay for next years
course is forever settled There is no
next term at college for this young
woman.
The more desirable lines of summer
work cannot be secured through adj
vertising or consulting the high-grade
employment bureaus. They depend
upon influence and acquaintance. A
girl should open her campaign among
her friends early, and be frank with
the authorities of the college, who fire.
quently receive applications for sum-
lner coaches" governesses and COM
panions.'