Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1913-04-25

Wiley for the Washington State Col
lege.
The opening address was made by
President Bryan, who spoke briefly
of the conference as making history
and of the marvellous advance in the
education of women during the past
few generations. He told of the
openings the teaching profession Of
fered to women and estimated that
perhaps 20 to 80 per cent of the
women entering that profession were
not suited to it by nature, but went
into it simply because that was the
only open door that they could see.
THE purpose of this conference" he
said, is to open up views of other
fields"
Dean White then sketched the be-
ginnings of the conference idea as
being due to the aimless condition
in which she found many of the girls
at the State College at the beginning
of the year and the large number
who had caught sight of no field of
work but that of teaching. 1T is
not the purpose of the conference"
she explained, to detract from the
teaching profession, but to prevent
women to whom the teaching profess
sion
Miss De Lashmutt was then in
troduced and spoke graphically of the
qualifications necessary for the wom-
an who would take up photography.
She must be skillful with her hands,
neat, careful, patient, persevering,
tactful. She said that in photog-
raphy, as in any art, individuality was
what counted. She spoke of the many
possibilities for artistic expression
offered by photography, of the value
of scientific training, and ended with
a plea for natural lighting in place
of the unnatural skylight of the con-
ventional studio" A collection of
Miss De Lashmutt's art photographs
which were hung in the parlor at
Stevens Hall was much admired by
those attending the conference.
1t is seldom one hears a woman
who speaks with more pleasing sim
plicity than did Miss Wimple, who
spoke next, on the subject of Pub
lie Sanitation as a Field for College
Women" This address and that of
Miss Riley on Saturday morning were
of particular interest to students in
the Department of Home Economics.
Miss Wimple gave many interest
ing details connected with her work
as Food Inspector and Market Master
Ill Tacoma. She said that the food
Inspector needs the cooperation -
every home in the city and that for
this reason she made use of every
opportunity available to talk to wom-
ems clubs, parent-teachers associa-
tons, and schools on subjects con-
nected with her work. Her work,
she said, was in detail very hum-drum
but afforded opportunity for service.
She gave it as her opinion that it
did not help much to make arrests,
and that every effort should be made
to induce shopkeepers to use their
money in making improvements in
stead of in paying fines. "A food
inspector" she said, must deal
largely with class of foreigners, -
college women, she felt, were better
able to deal with the general class
of people than women without col
lege training, because of greater abil-
ity to do team work. In speaking
of the average shop keepers concep-
ton of cleanliness, Miss Wimple
said, His idea of a germ is some
thing big enough to be led around
by string" One of the prime needs
of a food inspector is a sense of
humor.
The last address of the morning
was given by Mrs. Councilman of
Spokane on the subject of stenog-
raphy. She said that even in so
commercial vocation as stenog-
raphy the real end is not to get
position, but to be of the greatest
service possible. There is a great
opportunity she thinks for college
women as stenographers because a
stenographer is employed both for
what she knows and what she does.
She should not only have broad Gull
tural training, but a special under
standing of economics in addition to
her particular business training
Strangely enough very few college
women have entered this field of
work although opportunity for adj
vancement is great.