Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-07-06

lie'ss. Ihey get well paiG-S3 900 a
year is not uncommon. Real facts are
giFea in Good Housekeeping Maya.
zine, from which the following para
graphs are taken:
Salaries in social work are. on
the whole, lower than in the CONNER
clal branches. There are many oenp4
lngs however, for college girls in the
ranks Of subordinate positions in nub-
lie, organized and private charities of
large cities that pay good living
wages and offer opportunities for ad-
vancement to important executive DO
sltions. In the New Charity Organiza-
ton Society of New York CITY posi-
tons as secretaries, departmental
supervisors, committee investigators
and house visitors are open to college
trained women, and pay from $500 to
$1,000 salary.
FACTORIES, mercantile houses and
ether large business corporations
Whloh are likewise taking note of the
efficacy of social extension work as
an aid to business progress, are in,
Gliding in their staffs of workers var
lous officials called welfare manag-
ers or social secretaries.
A New York department s.ors.
Tor instance, employs a Vassar col.
lege graduate to supervise the man
ners and dress of its salsesgirls in
the store, to investigate and arbitrate
between any complaints they may
make, to visit the sick. and relieve
the poor, to see that the employees,
restaurant, rest rooms, ETC.. are ade-
quately kept, to preside over the
trm's vacation cottage at the sea.
shore IN the summer, and otherwise
generally to attend to the personal
needs of the 600 women employees.
A large Photographic supply com
pany OF western New York EMPLOYS a
college woman to supervise the labor
supply, to collect new women assist
ants from nearby towns, find homes
Tor them, and attend to their subse.
Guent needs in ways best calculated
to insure health and contentment.
A unique, quite unworked field of
work for the scientific college girls
Is scientific illustration. Most of the
accurate drawing for scientific books
in this country is now done by men
imported for the purpose, and mainly
from Germany. A young woman grad
uate of Smith college, a biological
student and clever as a craftsman.
recently made a place for herself in
this capacity at Johns Hopkins uni
versity, and is earning a good salary
in consequence.
'The college girl is welcomed in
newspaper work, as her qualities of
buoyancy and resources were bound
to make her One New York daily,
however, is authority for the criticism
mat neither the college-bred man nor
woman makes the perfect reporter,
because of a tendency to think AGA
denhcally They can't vet next to
the point of view of the woman on
the street. says the paper. But the
comment is manifestly questionable.
For the women who have made the
most notable successes IN news
paper work are college women, and
four-ffths of the women staff report
ers on New York dailies are college
women; and the best proof that they
are giving satisfaction is the fact
that they are receiving. the same sal
aries as the men for their work
''ln the magazine offices and pub
fishing houses likewise the college
girl with or without literary ability,
is welcomed In fact, most of the
large publishing houses harbor regu-
lar little colonies of Vassar, Smith
Wellesley, and Bryn Mawr girls.
"a we'll known womans magazine
has recently been making marked
effort to displace the members OF its
large staff of editorial assistants
with college graduates. Although the
bulk of salaries paid by this firm is
smaller than the average and the
hours longer, nevertheless it paid one
college girl, who was without ex-
perience-so eager were they to hold
her-$15 a week to wait for possible
vacancy.
'NTne corfege girl work is worth
more than the grubbing. old-fashioned
worker was, and she is wise to in
sist on her superiority, but when a
sense of superiority becomes foolish
with business men, as it is fitting She
should. There is a very generally
disseminated idea that the college
girl employee, especially when fresh
from the alma mater, has a tendency
to oyerrate the value of her personal
opinion and her personal preferences,
ard that she is not willing to begin
at the bottom, like other people. and