The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-11-23
AFTER GRADUATION.
OCCUPATIONS OF GIRL STUDENTS
WHEN EDUCATED.
Large Percentage Take UP the occu-
patton of Teaching and other
Light Work-Many Get
Married.


Why, nothing very unusual happens to
them,' said a college president. They
scatter all over the country and do
nothing particularly sensational.
i've just been looking over the class
book of a class that has been out of
college ten years and the statistics
show a strong tendency toward teach
ing and travel. There were about l45
in the class when II graduated. and up
TO date only IL husbands have been
acquired.
"One-third OF the class has travelled
abroad. while all but 80 mention teach
ing and tutoring. About So have done
graduate work at other schools and
colleges.
What the girls themselves regard
as the most important incident or spot
In the ten years since their gradua-
tion varies as much as the girls them
selves. Married on the hottest day
you ever saw to the best fellow re-
cords one. Married a lieutenant in
The United States navy and since then
have lived in a trunk in various places
as near the seacoast as possible
writes another.
"One young woman writes tersely:
My native town can boast but one
sane college woman and my family
questions that Another records: Had
an attack of typhoid fever at Constan-
tinople which necessitated a French
EnGnital nh
who spoke German and Turks to carry
Sedan chairs
"A model aunt endeavoring to show
four sisters how to bring up children,
frankly records another graduate.
Last two years occupied with clerical
work, household cares and an ad-
vanced course in measles is another
record. Bookbindlng has been the oc-
cupation OF one young woman
Here's a young woman whose spe-
cialty has been surgery and she has
performed difficult operation on the
maharani at the palace of the mahara-
jah OF 0orcba. And here is q girl who
has evidently made up her mind that
she is going to be a spinster, for she's
adopted little girl.
This is the summing up of another:
Spent last ten years In having surgi-
cal operations, writing books and mu-
sic and learning TO ride a bucking
broncho.' The girl who writes this has
a keen sense of humor: After two
years of nervous exhaustion got mar
Iied and am now emulating "The Com
muter's Wife" in building house and
garden And look at this girl. After
acquiring various degrees on deep sub
jects and writing learned thesis, she
says her present occupation is nurse
maid and housekeeping
" 4 defy anyone to make thrilling
tale out of ten years In private
school, writes one young woman. and
another gives evidence that teaching
has not been an unmixed joy by writ
ing: For year taught everything un-
der heaven, and now my specialties
haves immered down to Greek and
physical culture
Packed and unpacked,' is the brief
history of another,
1.-THE most enthusiastic naturalist
in the state of Vermont is another re-
cord. Been doing little illustrating
bear shooting and chaperoning, mod
estly writes one young woman who
has really achieved considerable fame
as an artist.
"The pathetic record of another Is:
sIIaua achiavad naithar fan1o nor mai.
rimony, but belong to many societies
most Of them respectable.
But there is one feature about the
history of this class that is worth not
ing. Nearly every member of 1t hai
been busy in one way or another. i
they have not been earning their liv
ing or studying they have interested
themselves In settlement work, church
work. etc."