Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-17

whatever rse lie finds for ii
,Et,a life 5 dark and dreary way;
.r,fa~ much shall be monument
If, tpll mankind whereer assalleu.
.., r,orhcf'S love. mothers prayers.
4 mothers hand have never failed!
-In,iS f. Thayer in Peoples Home Jour
nal
Girls Who Graduate.
College girls are wanted in business.
They get well paid-S3000 a year is not
uncommon. Real facts are given in the
Tune number of Good Housekeeping
Magazine. from which the following
paragraphs are taken:
Salaries in social work are. on the
whole. lower than in the commercial
branches. There are many openings,
however, for college girls in the ranks of
subordinate positions III public, organized
and private charities of large cities that
nav good living wages and offer opportu'
mites for advancement to important eX-
ecutive positions. In the Charity Or
rcnization Society of New York city po-
sitions as secretaries, departmental SUI
pervisors, committee Investigators and
house visitors are open to college-trained
women, and pay from 500 to $500 in
salary.
Factories, mercantile houses and
other large business corporations, which
are likewise taking note of the efficacy
of social extension work as an aid to
business progress, are including in their
stats of workers various officials called
welfare managers or social secretaries
"A New York department store, for in
stance, employs a Vassar college gradu-
ate to supervise the manners and dress
Of its Salesgirls in the store, to investi-
gate and arbitrate between any COM
plants they may make, to visit the sick
and relieve the poor, to see that the EN-
pl0yes restaurant, rest rooms, ETC., are
adequately kept, TO preside over the
firms vacation cottage at the SeashOre
in the summer, and otherwise generally
to attend TO the personal needs of the
600 women employees.
"A large Photographic supply company
Of western New York employs college
woman to supervise the labor supply, to
collect new women assistants from near
by towns, find homes for them, and at
tend to their subsequent needs in ways
best calculated to insure health and con-
tentment.
"A unique, quite unworked field of
work for the scientific college girl is sci
entifc illustration. Most Of the accurate
drawing for scientific books in this coun-
try is now done by men imported for the
purpose, mainly from Germany. A
Young woman graduate of Smith college
biological student and clever as a
craftsman, recently made place for
herself in this capacity at Johns Hop
kins university, and is earning good
salary in consequence"
THE college girl is welcomed in news
paper work, as her qualities of buoyancy
and resource We're bound to make her.
One New York daily. however, is author
ity for he criticism that neither the col
egebred man nor woman makes the
perfect reporter, because of tendency
to think accidentally. They cant get
next to the point of view of the woman
on the street. says this paper. But the
comment is manifestly questionable.
For the women who have made the most
notable successes in newspaper work are
college women, and four-fifths Of the
women staff reporters on New York
dallleS are college women; and the best
proof that they are giving satisfaction
is the fact that they are receiving the
same salaries as the men for their work.
In the magazine offices and publish
ing houses likewise the college girl, with
or without literary ability, Is welcomed.
In tact, most of the large publishing
houses harbor regular little colonies of
IaSSar, Smith, Wellesley, and Bryn
NaWr girls.
Well-known Woman's magazine has
recently been making a marked effort
HtNl'ld't Tue u1HilbbES Oh It's ldESS StdI
oL editorial assistants with college grad
yates Although the bulk of salaries
pad by this firm is smaller than the
average and the hours longer, neverthe-
less 1t paid one college girl, who was
"ll"ut eXperience-so eager were they
20 mold her-hfteen dollars a week to
"ail Ior possible vacancy.
HE college girl worker is worth
more than the grubbing, old-faShioned
worker was, and she is wise to insist
"h ueF superiority, but when a sense of
superiority becomes foolish cOncelt then
cue loses IN favor with business men, as
II Is hltng she should. There is very
7eHefa'y disseminated idea that the col
fSe Slrl employe, especially when fresh
LOU, me alma mater, has a tendency to
G,eFate the value of her personal opin-
. IN ana her personal preferences, and
NAY she is not willing to begin at the
s8otlom hike other people, and work up
rom small salary.
e. mere seems to have been a tendency
9r graduates to grayitate toward the
r.ueS, but there are more and more
,I'su VINO are asking themselves Can
Aol build up a little business in my
r -29T town, where if ] make less money,
r.l! l VIII spend lessY And they have
GGot'5'l TO advantage the material at
,ii'''' us dld certain Rhode Island girl
So returned from college to find her
So, nsE and brothers giving up Il dairy
I'm as a bad proposition. She begged
81 10 let her take it over, and then.
50 70 speak she toaLy If nv tho ooIIa-