University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-10-16
HOUSEWORK To PAY
|. EXPENSES IN SCHOOL
University Women Wash
Dishes, Sweep Floors,
ahd Care for Babies.
PAID Is CENTS AN HOUR
Employment is Obtained
Through Y. w. c. a.
Bureau.
PAID Is CENTS AN HOUR

and caring for babies are few OF the
things which goods in the University
OF Missouri are doing to pay their
expenses while in school. Many WONT
en- students have done stenographic
and clerical work in past years III
connection with their studies here,
but this year more OF them have taken
up housework.
The servant problem" has been d
veXing one here in Columbia, partly
| because Of the large number Of fami
lies who take students into their homes
to live and thereby take upon them
selves much extra Homework. One
OF the best ways the goods have found
OF making money is in caring for ba-
bies. And most of this work is n
| the families OF members of the Uni
versity faculty. There are many lee
lures, recitals and social gatherings
which the wives of the professors wish
to attend, and those who have small
children are glad to get the goods -
care for them. The girls are Slad
TO get this kind OF work for it usually
takes little time from their studies,
especially when the engagement is at
night. They take their text books
with them, and can usually put the
babies to sleep and get their lessons
for the next day-with full pay going
on.
The employment usually is obtained
through the University branch of the
Young Women's Christian Association
The association maintains an employ
ment bureau, which not only obtains
| the position for the coed but sees
that she is not mistreated. Fifteen
cents an hour is the rate of wage
received by the girls, as fixed by the
association. When a girl goes into
home to do general housework Tor
her. board and room there is definite
understanding as to just how long she
will work. The price charged for
board and room rent is from 81 to S.
week. 1t is figured just how many
hours a week at - cents an hour VIII
be required for the girl to pay her
expenses.
And the Y. w. c. A. does not cease
| its watch over the goods after they
have been placed in homes. If the
woman proves to be a driving" boss
and wants the girl to work more than
the number of hours agreed upon, the
girl has but to make complaint and
the Y. W. c. A. VIII investigate. r.
they find the coed has been working
too many hours, they can easily find
another place for her. The assist
ance in this case is. somewhat in
the nature of a unions walking dele
gate.
When the girls care for babies d
few hours at night or afternoons the
charge is always at the piece rate
ID cents an hour. The arrangement
as to the price to be paid is made by
the Y. w. C. A. representative when
the call is received, and that removes
any difficulty or misunderstanding as
to what the coed should receive for
her services.
There are many more positions |
than there are students to fill them. |
A large per cent of the girls now work |
ing are in the homes of faculty men,
bers, who seem anxious to obtain the |
student help in preference to any
other. And usually the girls prefer
to so into these homes
A few who have applied to the Y.
w. c. A. for positions have said they
would not go into homes where other
girls students were boarding. They
seem to dislike acting as servants TO
fellow students. Several of them.
however, are now washing dishes and
waiting on the table in large board
ing houses.
The scholarship of the goods who
are working their way through school
is higher than the average of the other
students. Two freshman girls who
are washing dishes and doing general
housework have scholarships to the
from high schools. They
are Miss Iva Butler, of Macon, Mo,
and Miss Katherine DeCourcy, Of Sa-
vannah, Mo.
The other girls doing housework
here and attending the University had
nigh standing in their preparatory
school work. Miss Joyce Massey, of II
Mo-, was second in her
nigh school class, the salutatorian. t
Miss Bird Bond, of iberia, won al ora {
.orical contest at the Iberia Academy ID
asst year.
Miss Mary Powell. Of Troy, Mo-. is Il
chairman of the employment commit "