Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-25

high school, as all collegians do in their
vacation times told Of one girl who had
built up paying business by renting BIZ
cycles. Notices on the big bulletin boards
announce that the wheels are for rent for
SO much an hour. At Vassar one year
twenty-five girls of the senior class were
found to be helping themselves through
the course. They distributed mall took
care of the chapel. kept the parlors sup
piled with flowers. painted dinner cards.
calendars. valentines. knit slippers and
golf jackets. made gymnasium suits and
even acted agents for merchants and
Smith kept herself free from monetary
anxiety by darning the stockings of her
classmates She offered to keep them in
good condition for So a year and secured
toward pay ng her living expenses.
AT Oberlin College. In Ohio. one of the
first institutions where women were ad-
mftted on the same terms as men to the
advantages of higher education, self-sup-
port has been imperative with large num-
Der of girls. They find employment in the
homes of citizens and at times rent rooms
In private houses. giving in exchange a
certain amount of labor In the household.
AT Berkeley, the University of California
girls may earn their board and lodging
with three or four hours work a day, and
many join the sewing classes. which are
directed by an experienced seamstress.
Girls completing the course. which has
helped to support them. for they are paid
for all their work, receive diplomas.
Many Washington girls go to Mount
Holyoke and acquire the thrift of the brisk
New England air they breathe. Much pin
money is made by agencies for gloves. cor
sets and underwear. But domestic work
Is incumbent upon all students at Holyoke
There is no army of servants. At least one
hour every day me students act as house
maids or in some other domestic capacity
This reduces expenses by 800 to $50 a
year. And all girls, wealthy or poor, are
iEa oil for Lon
time maintained the same system, and
many girl was enabled to go through COL
iege who would not otherwise have at
tempted 1t.
students at Barnard. the sister of Co.
lumbia and at Radcliffe, sister Of Harvard,
are looked after by a students exchange
Positions in and out of college are OBJ
tanned by this means.
Others look after students requirements
and sell stationery, pencils, fountain pens
and other articles. In response to an ap-
peal sent out as a circular at Radcliffe to
employing centers in Cambridge and Bos-
ton many of the poorer students secured
work in tending children. reading aloud,
acting as shopping agents, doing typewrit-
ing, mending and other employment for a
few hours each day.
MY wife," continued the principal put
an advertisement in Portland, Me-, paper
oHc ooHFiuoi Lux a HuiSc girl. rOurleen
college girls came to see her In response the
first morning after the issue"
But does this work not interfere with
scholarship was asked.
Mot necessarily" answered the school
master. "Only few hours a day are
given to 1t. and 1t is often of a relaxing
nature. At Bryn Mawr an effort is made
to relieve students from the necessity of
outside work in order that they may de-
vote themselves more assiduously to their
studies, but there also a girl may find
many ways Of working with her head, II
not with her hands The girls act as
tutors. as assistants in chemical and bio
logical laboratories. as librarians, copyists
in a hundred other capacities.
Bulletin boards in college dormitories
often bear curious signs. but all indicating
that the spirit of self-help is as strong in
the young women of the land as in the
men.
Zone placard announced. for instance.
Shoe buttons placed with patent fasteners
To- cents q pair Another L will make
your bed and dust your room; terms mod
crate Still another solicited opportunities
for washing dishes after spreads'-for
consideration.
artistic girls take full advantage of holi-
Christmas, st. Valentines day, Easter and
the various school gala days they offer
unique and often meritorious cards, winch
are sold at moderate prices, but which
bring In considerable sums"
You think. then. 1t Is well to allow a
girl to shoulder the task of putting her
self through college?" concluded the in
vestigator. iF
Certainly, Il she 10 in good health In