The sun., 1910-06-05
FOR THE GIRL GRADUATE
4 BOON SHOWING FIELDS o.
WORN OPEN 10 HER.

Nearly a Hundred CaIlinH Considered
-The Average oT Maximum salaries
$1,000 and ~ Minimum $500 Nd-
,antagea af the CsileEe Graduate.
BosroN. June t-ThOusanda Of Eradu-
atss. boys and girls both. will step down
from the platforms with thsir neatly
rolled sheepsSins within 'he next few
weeks and the same QUESTION will BE- In
the minds ~ most # them:
Well. here's my diploma. Where's my
job'-
Not 20 very long ago the hoy found
the answer in a majority of oase- by
drop ing haphazard into the first opening
that presented Itself. the girl got a job
a. teaching: but the art of getting a
job ~ heing studied classified and sys-
tsmatized. like almost everything else
Girls began 20 90 m for other things
besides teaching They broadened the
scope n their activities much fastor and
% a much greater extent than the bovs
did This Was partly because they started
with 40 few employment-. The boys
Formerly tlled every profession and
trade. filled every new business as fact
a. modern life invented h. and the girls
-tll taught sghoo, ~ they tai more
room o. broaden when tney ono" heEan
This year me girl graduate may thiDk
~ her predecessors have thoJ-rht that
when sne resolves hcr diploma she is
done with hooks: bit with a tim-IiDess
that couldn't have b~en beaten herr
comes lust one more book s0c must read
u j. for women. written Tor the mos,
part bv women. published IN Boston by
the Womens Educational and Industrial
Union. familiarity called IN this city o;
correctness in speech tho We and !.
and ia title really should he How %
Get a Job Il is issued under date Of
saturday. May -
A. matter Of fact IL is called -voca-
tons Tor the Trained Woman: Opportu-
mites Other than Teaching Il i ,ditsd
by Miss Agnes 2 Perkins. 4 NJ. in
structor in the English department az
Wellesley College. and IL made up of
soores of studies OF the possibilities for
women
Some of tho articles are the results ~
deliberate invest cations, more are writ
ten by persons engaged in the employ
ments they describe. or by persons who
may employ women The book IL re-
markabls for the breezy enthusiasm
with which IL ASSERTS that every one Of
nearly a hundred kinds of work described
Ia just the thing for the college bred
woman.
These two points strike the reader
at the first glance. the CONSTANT reiter-
alton % the need of common sense.
ambition and industry. and the fact
that In almost every other trade or
business technical training In a special
school is required following tho general
college education. There is also a sug-
gestion that besides practising this or
that vocation there is Oftsn a chance
90 teach u IN these same vocational schools
IL gives a hint n the fact that the fsmi-
mist movement IL barely under way.
and that IL ACirss on having a long way
20 60
The Jobs fall naturally into two CLASSES.
remedial work On civilization and the
regular fitting In work such as any boy
might expect to get The only surprise
here h that women need 10 b. told what
is open to them.
~ course you hardly think az first
of the possibility u a typical girl graduate
ssriOuly sitting down ~ considsr WHISTLER
she would not DO well - try for the job Of
police matron. for INSTANCE II she should
do ~. here h Alice 4. Woodbridge. the
agent Tor the Women's Prism Association
of New York ready o. tell just how much
chance she has.
Not much Il must bs confeEaed. with
only seventy women needed for the WhOls
city q New York Not TOO attractive
a plaos even with ia 81 90 a year pay,
| for the matrOns alternate weekly be-
tWean ten hours day duty and iourtean
hours night duty. and a flill twenty-lotr
hours n duty every other sunday, in
order tO get two sundays On In the month
besides the one day n rect allowed them.
Not too pleasant work. Including kaauina
the prison IN order after % has been
cleaRsd. searuhing women prisoners.