The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-03
How the SeIf-SuppOrting
College Girl Earns Funds
Her Vacation Days Devoted to Taking Honey for the
Ensuing Year.

Vacation to the average college girl
suggests rosy visions. 1t means hal
cyon days at home, where she is really
the guest of honor in her family cir
Gle Little functions are given in her
honor. The home dressmaker is busy
planning her fall clothes there are
trips to the shore and visit to friends,
and the college girl feels that life as a
whole is certainly jolly.
But there exists another class of
college girls to whom the mellow sum-
mer days represent anything but leis-
ure and luxury. These are the girls
who make not hay, but money, while
the sun shines. To the girl whose ev-
cry want is provided by induIgent par
ents summer means absolute relaxa-
ton, but to the girl who is making
her own way through college, with
perhaps a small allowance from some
rich relative. summer means merely
a change of work. Like the adaptive
American girl that she is however, she
finds that the change of work is real
ly a recreation. and she has real
pleasure in the increase of her funds.
Methods of earning money vary at
different colleges and are governed
generally by the class of pupils who
attend. For instance. at womans
college in New York state, notorious
for the wealth of its alumni, several
girls, who are clever and dainty with
their needles. are earning their way
by making exquisite lingerie and dress
accessories for fellow pupils with lib
eral allowances. One of the girls thus
explained her work:
Sell to Classmates.
1--WE keep closely in touch with the
newest designs in lingerie, neckwear,
fichus and so forth. Where our class
mates run into New York on Saturday
for matinees and concerts, we haunt
the exclusive shops, not only for bar
gains in materials, but for the newest
ideas. During the past year we have
kept constantly on hand collar and cuff
sets made in Russian cross-stich,
Hardanger and broderie d'Onglaise.
These we sell to the girls, not only
for their own use, but to send home as
gifts. 1t is really funny to hear a girl
gasp: oh, mothers birthday is next
week. What shall L send her?' And
that is where we make a sale. Of
course we must make our things a lit
tie more dainty than anything you
could buy at a shop. They must not
suggest machine work.
Such work means that we must
give up many of the little social pleas
ures and use our eyes constantly, but
we wear glasses when doing the nee
die work. After all, sewing and study
ing do not wear on the eyes in just
the same way"
4 Coach on Fashions.
Sometimes there comes to this col
lege the daughter of a wealthy man
who is not versed in modes and fash
ions, or does not know how to buy or
wear the little articles of dress which
mark the smart girl, and she is quite
willing to pay for a course of train
ing in the gentle art of dressing in
good taste. In other words. she not
only buys needle work from these col
lege steamstresses, but adds a COM
Portable sum for the information.
A Smith College girl, who is to be
married in the fall, has placed her en-
tire order for trousseau lingerie with
two undergraduates, who will execute
the order during the summer at their
own homes.
The number of domestic occupations
which college girls seek as a means of
making vacation money should con-
vince the Yeriest pessimist that the
higher education cannot down the dis
tinctive feminine instinct.
Took Boarders in Camp.
AS an illustration, a Wellesley girl,
who had been famous for her quality
it not the quantity of her chatting dish
at the spreads, announced that she
had taken a summer camp in the Maine
woods and wanted boarders. In a very
short time she had more applications
than accommodations. The shacgs,
which the girls will occupy with a
chaperon, are primitive, and the life
will be entirely in the open, but the
fare will be wholesome and well
served. The college girl will do all of
her own cooking. She expects not
only to pay for her own vacation, but
TO make a comfortable nest-egg for
the next college term.
At one of the Eastern colleges,
where a summer school is held, two