Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-25
PAYING HER WAY
THROUGH COLLEGE

had been made by a schoolgirl. He men,
toned the lady's name.
Certainly" said the girl: ."she is one OF
my regular customers. You see, a great
many people get cakes at the better lunch
rooms, and the idea occurred to me that, as
I had a cooking course, l could supply
them. One soon gets a list OF patrons. and.
II you are careful and supply good cakes.
you soon have more orders than you can
fill. My best friend takes my surplus now,
and Is making enough to start her In COL
lege'
That's just what 1 wanted to know"
interrupted the listener. You may save
up enough to start, but how are you going
to get along later If your parents are not
back of your"
The first year is the hardest" replied
the girl with conviction. IF you have not
saved up anything and have to start in at
a strange place. they don't know you and
1t may be hard to catch on, but after the
first year 1t Is easy. My two sisters are
college graduates-one from Smith and one
from Wellesley, and I have learned a lot
from them. I, of course shall be fairly in
dependent from my cake-making; I have
$1,000. but my eldest sister found it rather
hard to take the plunge without any GER
tain support"
What did she do?"
"A great many different things in the
course of time, but typewriting at first, and
fee. My second sister had an easier time.
She was a magazine agent for several pub
fishing houses. / thought l would like to
have more time to myself than either Of
them, so I began here in the high school.
! may, however, cook after get to college.
for there is always a demand for apple Gus
tard and 5elltes. Vassar has a large room
provided with stoves. tables. and utensils
for cooking and making candy. Any num-
Der Of girls manufacture confectionery
flldp fr,Sf hoy
little stand In front Of your door, and as
the girls pass the sales are easily made at
stated prices
But one of the boys has just told me
that an instructor in this very building
worked his way through Yale, and has
never been well since"
He could not have been very well to be-
gin with, them replied the young optimist;
land then he should have begun. to save
earlier when he had more time"
The electric bells rang, and. the study
period being over. the girl president ex-
cused herself and went to a recitation. The
Investigator thoughtfully sought out the
principal and put the question: Can a boy
or girl pay his or her way through college
unaided?'
1T depends on the nature of the student"
said the principal. There are the scholar
ships which are obtained generally upon
competitive examinations, and various
prizes, but In general the students depend
on other sources Of income. Both the boys
and girls wait on table in term time in a
number Of colleges, and are employed at
the hotels during the vacations. This is
particularly true In New England At a
Maine resort one summer every waiter in
the dining room was from some college,
We have Washington boys at Dartmouth
who are waiting on table. And several are
out at Leland Stanford where particular
advantages to poor boys are offered"
But how do the girls manager?
with very much the same ingenuity
along feminine lines returned the princi-
pal. "At one college the roommate Of a
wealthy girl added to her finances by poll
ishing shoes. well-to-do freshman was
surprised to hear a dignifed senior say:
Just leave your shoes outside the door and
l will polish them for YOU
Gas soon as she became acquainted with
college conditions she ceased to wonder.
Many of the upper class girls tutor their
rich sisters. This pays a dollar an hour
and is a way of swelling ones assets, for
which there is q constant demand. Then
the expert needlewoman has always as
much mending in feminine community as
she cares to do. They make peek boo
shirt waists and kimonos and other dainty
things dear to woman's heart and unat-
tainable at the stores.
"A girl student who paid q visit to our