The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-06-30
WOMAN's WORLD.
Mothers Love.


I've lived to learn that friends grow weak,
When trouble marks you for It's own;
The ones you love oft turn aside,
And leave the fight to you alone
i We stood on many scenes of strife.
I've stood where care and pam aSsalIeu'
And though friends often turned away,
Yet mothers hand has never failed.
AS in that childhood far removed
She smoothed my brow and dried each
Still. il Young manhood's troubled hour.
With loving words she hoverS near
ooh, tickle love and friendship false
Oh. siittering dreams and hopes bewalled.
You weakened in lifes darkest hour.
But mothers love has never failed.
Whatever God shall choose to 90
With this frail tenement of clay,
Whatever use He finds for 1t
Along life's dark and dreary way;
That much shall be a monument
To tell mankind where'er assailed,
"a mothers love, a mothers prayers,
A mothers hand have never failed!'
Louis e. Thayer in Peoples Home Jour-
nal
Girls Who Graduate.
College girls are wanted in business.
They get we'll paid-$3000 a year is not
uncommon. Real facts are given in the
June number of Good Housekeeping
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
pay good living wages and offer opportu-
mites for advancement to important ex-
ecutive positions. In the Charity Or
pizatiOn SOciotu of NnvU York CltV no.
sitions as secretaries, departmental SUI
pervisors, committee investigators and
house visitors are open to cOllege-tralned
women, and pay from $500 to $lSOO III
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 it's salesgirls in the store, to investl-
gate and arbitrate between any COM
plants they may make, to visit the sick
and relieve the poor, to see that the en-
plOyeS' 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 a college
woman to supervise the labor supply, to
collect new women assistcn ts 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.
al Gold Of
work for the scientific college girl is sci
entific 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,
a 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 were bound to make her.
One New York daily, however, is author
ity for he criticism that neither the col
lege-bred man nor woman makes the
perfect reporter, because of a tendency
to think ACCIDENTALLY. They can't get
next to the point of view of the woman
on the street, says this paper. But the
comment is manlfeStly 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
dailies 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.
fOn Of fhn t0rn IN hTT1Fr
houses harbor regular little colonies of
Vassar. Smith, Wellesley, and Bryn
Mawr girls.
"A well-known woman's magazine has
recently been making a marked effort
to displace the members of its large staff
of editorial assistants with college grad
yates. Although the bulk of salaries
paid by this firm is smaller than the
average and the hours longer, neverthe-
less it paid one college girl, who was
without eXperience-so eager were they
to hold her-ffteen dollars a week to
wait for possible vacancy.
''The college girl worker is worth
more than the grubbing, old-fashioned
worker was, and she is wise to insist
on her superiority, but when.a sense of
superiority becomes foolish conceit then
she loses in favor with business men, as
1T is fitting she should. There is a very
generally disseminated idea that the col
lege girl employee, especially when fresh
from the alma mater, has a tendency to
overrate the value of her personal opin-
ion and her personal preferences, and
that she is not willing to begin at the
bottom like other people, and work up
from a small salary.
sNThere seems to have been a tendency
for graduates to gravitate toward the
cities, but there are more and more
women who are asking themselves, Can
I not build up a little business in my
home town, where if ] make less money,
still | will spend leSsY And they have
utilized to advantage the material at
hand, as did a certain Rhode Island girl
who returned from college to find her
father and brothers giving up a dairy
farm as a bad proposition. She begged
them to let her take it over, and then,
so to speak, she took it by the collar,
shook UP its slipshod methods and jerked
it to its feet. A careful study of up-
tO-date theories and detailed attention to
the minutest problems enabled her to
pay off the heavy mortgage and make
OF it a thriving business"
~O..O-
The Young Wife.
Many years ago met a young couple
who were on their wedding journey. They
We're very much in love. The bride was
talking to me cto1nfidentially. on her ia
husband, and looking full in my face
with beautiful wistful eyes, she said,
"All that l am afraid of is that | won't
be able to make Tom happy. For one
thing, his will shall be my law
/ presume this dear young bride ascer-
tanned in time, with many another, that
the best way to make Tom happy was
not to make him exacting, selfish and
imperious. In the first glamour of the
HONEYMOON yOunc married folk are ready