Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-12-13
MANY GIRLS WORK
WAY THROUGH j. w.
SOME OF THEM "HlRE OUT"
Others Do Little Odd Jobs for More For
tunate SchoolmateS Who Pay
Well for Services.

MADISON, Wis, Dec. u Special. i
Although statistics show that the per
cent. OF women who compete with men
as bread-winners is yearly increasing to
astonishing proportions, there is one
class of workers in which the men are
still ahead of the women, and, for vari-
Gus reasons, are likely to be for some
time to come. This is the class of col
Iege students who work their way, by
dlnt of labor at various odd Jobs at vari-
Gus odd times, to the coveted goal of
graduation and q sheeepskin from some
higher institution of learning. In this
field the men outstrip the women to a
very considerable extent.
Many Girls Work Their Way.
The ways and means by which goods
put themselves through college are not
SO well partly, perhaps, because
fewer OF them attempt it, and partly be
cause most girls, while willing to do
work equal to that of man student,
have natural feminine pride about ad-
vertising the fact.
How do they do it? First. and east
est, therefore the most commonly prac-
uced, is domestic service. This does not
mean that the girls actually hire out"
rs servants, as, indeed, they could
scarcely do the work Of an ordinary do
meStic and also carry their college work:
but that they assist i'll some good home
IN the routine work, and thus earn their
room and board. \ good many girls are
thus employed in homes about the uni
yeTSIty, in the main, III those of the uni
versity professors. Others act as moth
er's helper in the care If the young chill
dren of the faculty.
Help in Instructors Homes.
According to Miss Belle c. Grove,
who as houSckeepCr ut Chadbourne hall,
and from long experience with the
economic side of the university student
living, is excellent authority, at least a
dozen girls, personally known to herself.
are employed in the ways mentioned
above in university professors homes.
At ChadbOurne hall there are mum
Der of positions at which girls can oc~
cupy themselves to earn extra money.
There is the position of telephone girl.
for long time held by an ambitious
girl student who found ample time be
tween calls to con her text books, and
who had an excellent record as Il stu
dent. Several girls at the hall also earn
money by sewing and mending for the
other inmates of the big dormitory, by
fine laundry work, and the various other
little services seemingly unlmpOrtant.
but withall Indispensable to the girl who
wishes to present a dainty and well
groomed appearance.
Shampoo Aid to Education.
Some girls, both at the hall and at
sorority and boarding houses, earn
money by shampoOing and various other
services in connection with the personal
toilet of the other girls. There are plen-
ty of girls whose generous supply of
spending money enables them to hire
their less fortunately situated sisters to
do these services for them, and are more
than glad to pay well for it.
Some girls are employed in offices,
though as Il rule these do not take
full course on the hill, but take some
studies as a pleasant variation TO the
monotony of working in an office. Many
earn additional dollars by doing type
writing work independently, and at
graduation time are among the first to
bid for the theses of the graduating stu
dents.
A method more commonly employed
by the women who are obliged to work
in order to make their way through col
lege, is to teach a year or two and then
so to school on their savings. This is
more satisfactory on the whole, as all
their time can then be used to the best
advantage in the college work without
the distraction of outside employment