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The Washington herald., 1913-02-02

We have made some interesting place.
menu OF women who. without the
bureaus aid. could hardly have found the
niche into which they fitted 80 well One
was with a literary woman of wealth who
wanted secretary who. in addition to
having the necessary skill I'm stenography
and typewriting, could also accompany m
the piano and speak German, French, and
italian. An insurance expert needed a
secretary OF special capacities and a pro-
lessor wanted one able TO carry on cor.
respondence in French and German.
landscape gardener was desired to lay out
an old-fashioned garden bureau of
social research asked for a statistical
worker. An emergency relief COMMITTEES
OF the Red Cross Society required an ex-
ecutive secretary. 4 fashion periodical
needed a writer Of notes on the modes
school for crippled children had 10 have
department of Industrial arts ORGANIZED
woman was wanted 10 investigates
boarding houses for working girl, and a
housekeeper and manager was needed for
a club of working girls. All tbsss no
sftions were filled
These give an idea Of the very wild,
variety OF occupations in which there IA
services
college women. With the exceptior ~
the secretarial group. perhaps the largest
demand for them is as social workers
OF various kinds So large is this field
that n separate department Of the bureau
is now being organized I'm cooperation
with important social and philanthropic
organizations TO handle placements in the
profession OF social service
As we register applicants for position,
only after a personal interview, IT fol-
lows that the work OF the bureau Is at
present limited for the most part to the
Eastern States. where nine Of the Leading
colleges for women cooperate in Its sup
port and supervision But plans are be-
ing formed for the establishment of SIM
liar bureaus in Chicago, Kansas City. and
Los Angeles The near future will prob
ably see a chain OF such organizations.
directed by alumnae for the service o:
professional women. that will reach prsos
nsally from aSssa u 2sssA
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Need for Technical Training.
SCOTCH CAKES FOR TEA

bake in a slow oven until It is a pale
brown. One hour or more is not too long
to bake.
In addition to these two cakes the
Scotch use gingerbread for their tea. but
instead of being in high squares as we
make 1t. 1t Is in small individual shapes
like a muffin. and much easier 20 ham
die. as the whole surface is firm.
Oatmeal when baked to a crisp gives
the taste of nuts TO a cake. and these
oat cakes are a delicious bite, and yet
not too rich An old Scotch recipe for
oat cakes is this:
Put two and one-half handfuls Of fine
oatmeal in a bowl, with a teaspoon of
sugar and little salt Pour over this
one-quarter pint OF boiling water in
which one ounce OF butter or dripping
has been melted Mix well with a spoon,
thcr turn out on board and knead
with the hands into a round shape. Take
the rolling pin and roll out very thin,
taking care TO dust the pin we'll with
meal to keep II from sticking. Pinch IL
around the edges with fingers and thumb
and cut II in four pieces Have the grid
die nice and hot then bring II to the
edge of .he board and slip the cakes
on II. Fire on one side until edges be-
gin to curl up: then toast the other side
in front of the fire. An hour or two In
a moderately bot oven makes them dry
and -Rr10A
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least. M h'""mnE a. different as pos
sIble in appearance and manner to the
life and TO tn" peorI" who are and should
be nearest and dearest to her. She comes
home the first year: she recognizes the
breach. and her parents feel it profound
ly. But she still is happy. she is resting,
and some OF the old associations touch
her heart. and mother and father are so
very. very proud that all else is for
gotten.
The second Summer she often visits
new friends: sometimes she works through
the third vacation period to make sure
that sh" graduate I'm good standing For
the American daughter who is not al
rifice for her is usually too proud 10
fail them in their final hour of glory in
her graduation, and she usually has brain
to work with. The final calamity, then.
is put off until the girl, strong. well. and
happy, interested in college life. mentally
a 'rrt. well hammered. with some taste in
art and household matters, with friends
who are conEenlal to her. leaves this
very happy life to return after gradua-
ton to her mother and father.
Mother and father. though longing for
her. are usually nervous about her re-
turn. They think Of her constantly;
they have been known to weep over her
little playthnCs. hut the daughter they
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ognze the fact that women who seek
such positions are in earnest in planning
their careers and in attaining self-sup-
port. Often. too they have others de-
pendent on them for support and for edu-
cation, and their responsibility as bread
winners is exactly the same as that of
tho men with whom they come In COM
petition. As women continue TO prove
their fitness and employers recognize
more clearly the justice OF their desires.
the higher positions will surely open for
them just as the lower ones have done
At present the greatest need OF the col
lege woman entering upon a business
career. or already at work, just as II Is
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How tn. Breach Widens.

In any case. the fact is that more and
more girls are leaving home at sixteen
or seventeen to go to college. though not
often with any definite idea of what col
Iege education may mean, or in what way
II will help life or how il will! prepare
them for a wise and rich maturity. Tne
average girl or her family does not think
much beyond the superficial meaning Of
the phrase. going to college. II means
book-learning which the parents have
been denied. and which they set great
store by because they do not know in
most cases what an idle timing il Is II
means new associations which the parents
cannot imagine as having any real in
fluence upon their daughter. and the
daughter does not often consider at all.
And SO the girl goes to college, in
clothes which mortify her, with an ac-
cent and a manner which sne soon be-
comes ashamed of. The first year of her
college life is usually spent, in part at
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knife into triangles. because / think II
rises better than wnen It is shaped with a
cutter. In the large pastry shop in
Edinburgh they roll the dough much thin
ner and cut into small round shapes.
They are called there 'petticoat tails. '
You see. when Mary Stuart came back
from France she brought a number Of
the French people with ner and they
called these little cakes petitis gateaux.
The Scotch people thought they said
petticoat tails, and so they have been
known ever since.
Another variety OF shortbread is the
Pitcaithly bannOck. I suppose the lady
Of Pitcaithly Castle. in Perth, originated
them, as all the great ladies in early
times made their own cakes. This is
simply the shortbread with nuts and
any other good thing you may happen to
have on hand stirred through II.
To make the ordinary shortbread take
seven ounces of flour. one ounce of rice
flour, five ounces OF butter. and two
ounces of castor sugar.
Work all OF this toe ether with the hands
until II is soft and the butter is well
-----'-"d IN Make it into round cake
-; inch thick; pinch the
@. nd prick IL all over with
----.. heeps II from rising. Put
m nm uraa1aA po opor ~, a flat ffn and
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and executive positions although our re-
quests have come more from professional
employers than from the financial dis
trict- We have found that the demand
for well-trained secretaries with q knowl-
edge of stenogrsphy and typewriting far
exceeds the supply. Nearly half the total
number of calls from employers have been
for this type of worker
No Prejudice Against Women.
The bureau has discovered no prejudice
against the employment of women. Some
times an employer has said: II think /
would rather have a man for this posi-
ton, but am open TO conviction. Show
me woman who can do the work salts
faCtorily, and I shall he perfectly willing
to hire her. The employers come to the
bureau 1t has not sought them, except
at the time of its organization, when a
descriptive circular of the work IL pur-
posed to do was sent to a selected list
of possible employers
As the knowledge of its plans and of
its work has spread. the demand for its
services and the variety of occupations
offered have constantly increased. Though
it has dealt largely with the recent grad
uate. often with one who is seeking her
first position. the bureau has also been
able to assist many well-trsined college
women of long experience. Two such
have secured through us executive POSI-
tIons in a large public service corpora
tion, where they receive the largest sal
aries yet paid to any of our applicants.
The salaries paid to inexperienced wo-
men in general run from $45 to $50 per
month About the same as are paid. at
the beginning. TO college men. according
to the figures brought out in a recent
newspaper controversy. This. together
with the fact that the college girl has
no initial barrier of either sex or academic
degree to surmount. shows that she can
enter the world of work upon an even
-0ther. II she is con-
.wer and ess well
i;i'u pUsis.u"a 80 lind few stumblir
blocks in her way.
But No Room Higher Up.
But those who are ambitious. who want
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want back is the little girl they sent
away. changed only by halo of glory
about her head-the bright shining light
of modern education. They are not plan
ming that daughter shall make any spe-
cial use Of the halo: they just want II
as a personal decoration. as matter
of family pride.
By the time the four years have cx-
pired they are afraid that some sort OF
obligation to understand the difference in
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also the greatest need OF college men. is
technical training. I strongly recommend
that any college woman purposins to earn
her living add technical training of some
sort to her academic preparation. che
will have to specialize in definite way
IL she wishes to make a place for herself
that will be at all worth while.
Need for Technical Training.
II she begins the specialization before
she attempts to secure the work. she will
have just so much gained. She can start
at q better salary and be sure Of making
more rapid progress. II she Is looking
forward to a secretarial career. she
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Why She Is Changed.

The great difficulty seems to he that
most parents do not realize that the
totally new standard of living which they
are furnishing their daughter might pos
slbly unfit her for happiness and content
ment at home. 1t is strange tnat people
of real wisdom and understanding do not
stop to consider the inevitable result of
giving a girl at the most susceptible
time of her life four years training that
nine times out of ten must unfit her even
tually to fit into their own interests and
homes and ambitions.
AS matter of fact. YOU could no more
expect girl to SPEND four years in col
leEe and then 10 find satisfying the life
that Interested her and made her happy
as a little Cirl than you could expect her
when sne comes back from college to
sleep in the little cradle in which she
rested and cooed and made life adorab bic
for nCr parents when she WAS a wee
baby
As for the girl herself usually. if her
parents deserve it. she leaves home re-
luctantly She thinks perhaps she should
be educated: she knows how her parents
want to be proud Of her: she knows Of
other friends who have gone away TO
college and achieved a limited amount of
distinction, and at .rast have come back
looking more stylish. Or. il may be that
she really Graves the higher education
and feels that she must have it at any
sacrifice to her parents.
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found at college as possible. She will
dress mother and father differently. and
she will correct their accent. She will
not vince at their bad grammar. because
she does not Intend In her heart 10 per
init 1t to last very long.
She is full OF courage. dissatisfaction
and cheerfulness. She has not the slight
est idea that father and mother will not
want to be reformed at once. or that, in
fact. il may be- impossible to 4" reform %
them. She has grown so far away from
them that she only vaguely remembers
in blurring outline their attitude toward
life. OF her life with them in the past
she is a little ashamed: in fact. she does
not think very much OF the past. Her
whole plan is for the future. what she
will do for them, how she will reward
them for their sacrifice by making them
over into good limitations OF fashionable
fathers and mothers that she has seen
during her vacations or during school life.
And then the Homecoming takes place:
Tne chances are that the mother in the
tenderness OF her heart has had the
daughters room all done over just as she
thinks daughter would like it. She has
probably saved in a heart-brcaking fash
ION 10 Duy some uGedOIul furniture, anu
she has had the woodwork and the walls
redecorated to suit the taste OF the little
girl who went away, and she has picked
a little nosegay. which is the only simple
homely thing about the arrangement.
Possibly father has contributed his
small sum to the freshenins up Of the
parlor. and by way of showing his ap-
probation of art matters he has pur-
chased gaudy. rosy carpet. and the
curtains have been suffly laundered. and
they do not hang straight. and all the
old portraits have had the mosquito net
ting taken off. Daughter does not mind
very much. She does not see II at first.
she is genuinely happy. because she is
really a very Worthwhile girl. and she
knows that after all in a very short time
everything will be different.
The Washington herald., 1913-02-02
BY FRANCES CUMMINGS.

Manager. the intercollegiate Bureau of
Occupations
THE college woman is at no disadvan-
tage when she sets forth to win her
way in the world. 1t is often assert
ed that the hard-headed practical business
man shrinks from employing a college
trained girl. but really 1t is not SO. Our
experience has proved the exact opposite.
Her employer rarely wants to make use
Of the definite things she has learned
during her college course. But he does
want the type of woman who cares to
take a college course
He cares little or nothing, except in spe-
cial cases, for the contents OF that Curric-
ulum through which, for four years, she
has been working her way. But that she
has done so, he seems to consider evi-
dcnce in favor of her power of concentra-
ton, her intellectual capacity, her serious
mindedness. In her favor, too. he ap-
parently regards the training of her men,
tai faculties which years of study have
given. the habits of mind that study has
fostered, the contact with people afford
ed by her college work and play. and
the broader mental outlook she has
gained
What Employers Want.
Such. at least, is what the Intercol-
legiate Bureau OF Occupations has found
TO be true in the course of its dealings
with some hundreds of employers. II was
established in October. 1911, and in the
first fifteen months of its existence placed
about $50 women. 1t does not accept ap-
plications for teaching positions, as the
existing agencies for teachers already
serve their needs.
More than fifty types Of work were Of
fered during the first year by employers
desirous of securing the help of college
women. These included public speakers,
statistIcians household administrato-e
social workers. lihrarin~-
-UOhkvCp-
nCrs in many
Ey far the largest
. .-., .e IL he secretarial group, which
ss.ssss sSSEsisSiss foy AIsrsfG arRncill.
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The Truth Dawns on Her.

For a day or two there is the good
cheer and the sweetness and the COM
radeship Of united family. II daughter
winces she suffers in silence. and father
and mother are so proud. so joyous over
her beauty and grace and her wonderful
knowledge of life that il is impossible
for a clash TO come. But eventually the
real feeling OF the girl and the real feel
ing of father and mother must come to
the front. Daughter cannot be happy
with the housefurnishings. and the first
heartbreak comes with the suggestion Of
change. The girls appreciation Of the
really beautiful things OF modern life is
something that the father and mother
have never dreamed of. and It is impos-
sible for all the tact and the affection
and the kindness in the world to avoid
misery in any suggestion Of a different
way OF living.
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and they await her Homecoming with
anxiety.
During her college years daughter has
learned not to he nervous about any
thing. least of all the point OF view of
parents She is coming nome educated
as she should be. at a sacrifice which. OF
course. parents should make, TO recon-
struct the world for them. She will
quickly change everything and make the
old life as much like the conditions she
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the daughters point OF view may he laid
upon them. they are a little smitten vita
the fear OF 1t. for they have not changed
themselves II their point of view has
varied IN four years. the chances are
that their outlook on life is narrower:
and yet here is this marvellous being who
belongs to them coming nome. beautiful.
because a daughter is always beautiful.
and educated. That final blessing Is hers.
And in spite OF this their hearts sink
The Washington herald., 1913-02-02
By MARY FANTON ROBERTS.
Managing Editor of The Craftsman.


NM days about the unhappiness OF
Wv fond American parents VINO
sacrifice comfort and peace al
most bevond belief in order to send their
daughters to college. We hear posltiNeiS
tragic stories of efforts TO save money
to give a girl that fine vague thing
known as education, which only too often
sends her back TO the ancestral cottage
a changed person. with ambitions and
prsjudices quite alien 10 those OF the
unhappy people who have contrived with
the best of motives to bring about this
condition.
The dear daughter upon whom has
heen lavishcd so much love and care
comes home from her college expert
ence unable TO fit into the little attic
room she left at the age of 10 or there
about. and more often than not she IS
equally unable TO fit into her mother S
ana fathers existence.
Sometimes even their heart room seems
a little cramped and uncomfortable for
her In spite of the good resolutions she
has made she finds it difficult 10 stand
erect anywhere. And the parents who
have sacrificed all they knew how to
give up are disappointed. and il hap
pens occasionally that the daughter is
made to feel their unhappiness, even their
resentment.
1t is not difficult for the outsider TO
see the standpoint of both the family
and the daughter. If you look at the
familys side you see how much they
have loved their little girl and how
heroically they have put aside even the
comforts OF life that she should possess
that higher education they have dreamed
of and could not achieve for themselves.
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But No Room Higher Up.
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What Employers Want.

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ACrs in many
Ey far the largest
&, ...,. .s IL The secretarial group. which
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4 looks like uu from tsin
Asa swss esi n "a sssssa pspss on DAT
The Ely miner., 1913-12-26
Heavy Manual Labor
Rarely Kills Women
By MRS. BARBARA GALPIN

ica condition of the person, her training and experience
The great majority of working high low down the
ladder of fortune choose their work. for drafted into
special line of Her choice of limited her education
her ambition and her good Her strength ability should
mine the severity the labor employer give
a woman work who is physically unable o perform it
The question would indicate those who labor
manufactures of kinds With all the restrictions which
the and the labor about the worlds workers
would that of them need jue themselves the
grandmotes the question of working hard entered
the mind of human being yet the mothers of large families with small
probably worked harder and longer factory
of today The of the oden times worked unhed homes
except fire. lights only power
her hours from until after the chdns bedtime when she
did up the odd household matters
Women who do labor rule interested in their
work. sort of "wachheok" duty Young especially
look their daily routine grind injustice and think only
of the closing hour when they hall of amusement
late into the night all their energy and making them
selves unfit for the when illness follows the blame
often placed overwork and not careless everyday
Women by the law allowed work establishments
than week. this nearly long
number of housewives moderate circumstances obliged keep
at the round of household affairs The latter does have her
hour without interruptions and her work not completed
the strike of six
manufactures choose there for and
though the work may hard the buildings pleasing they have
business the the day. injured phys
ica by what they do OF exceptions the rule and small
proportion suitable only because they
will do it for less and necessity occasionally force them
take such places.
One why placed seemingly working
that they foreign countries where the poorer
classes manual labor of the kind and when they
livelihood the country pay offered is
greater than that which they received previously they do not qu
ton conditions but eagerly them Doubtless
doing work which too hard for hem but they <ucant
able to do heavier work than
do hear much about working too hard.
heavy labor rarely kills worry improper food
regard health often lead lingering illness and death
If the laws already have
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overwork
The Ely miner., 1913-12-26
Manners of Woman
Of Much Importance
By FERDINAND B. PECK. Chicago

To begin with should strive become lady Polite
good The want good neradcae 1t is
repmanded their manners it
Do know be lady than to be of
rank power lady when in her right certainly worthy
of all respect lady king and bow alike Do not be compelled
have that need be repressed checked
Take great when visiting public parks See that your etiquette
the standard Don't get careless regard to etiquette Don't
the public parks it not becoming to lady, Don't be vulgar
everything along 1t doesn't pay. In fact
firt Why make life unhappy Why
there suicides day? Why divorces? Is it
possible equete Read the "dons again. they
questions all least in the majority of
Surely enjoyed To make life happy only requires that
strictly the and regulations of etiquette Be moder
try appear than really be mild and
try by than panne, dignity and
geneness rghthnkng today will then
respect enlarge opinion their woness called lady
The Ely miner., 1913-12-26
Do Not Permit
Yourself to Worry
By ]. v. BERNARD, New York

who explained his good health by saying like job Content
ment with daily lot satisfaction with regular employment
aid dispensing Of the the
Learn be master moods Do permit yourself drift
along like hopeless ruddere bark and fro every sensation
wind of Distress There profound phloso-
with knowledge the which
mems affairs the staff of this railroad His directions to the
employees the widest circulation and place the desk
who works under ran and whose duties call for his undivided
disaster How railroad accidents
been caused because the pilot worried his private affairs
How financial disasters have resulted from the mental attitude of
the who has allowed petty distract him?
the result of biousne 1t originates usually in the liver
accomplished desired end As discomfort mistaken for amb
mistaken for devotion duty erang
and of The who succeeds the who
afraid The who anticipates trouble the who always
trouble would succeed face the dangers and difficulties of the
day with clear brain and steady eye Do not worry.