The Washington times., 1922-06-23
WORKING GIRLS
ENJOY VASSAR
. F0RFOUR DAYS
Display No Envy Of Weather
Sisters-Not Sure They
Care for College.
BY WILLENE TAYLOR.
Cosmopolitan News Service.


POUGHKEEPSIE. n. Y, June 23.
Are poor girls jealous or resentfIl
of rich girls college days, filled with
fun and opportunities? Does social
ism extend to the working girl class?
Absolutely NO." Is the answer to
both questions as the girls them
selves put II at the convention here
of the National League of Girls
Clubs at Vassar College, where $50
working girls have been trying to
squeeze four years Of college life into
four days '.lh
Textile workers, shop girls, stenog.
raphers, telephone operators and
more working girls have been stir.
ring fudge. exchanging love tales,
riding horseback and doing every
college girl stunt they ever saw on
the movie screen. On the Vassar
green, in the old schools "dorms"
and with the aid of yassar girl
guides, $50 working girls have feIt
the thrill of college life, have tasted
OF the rich girls romantic days on
the beautiful Vassar grounds. All in
four days.
Showed No Envy.
And yet-as the time neared to re.
turn today to the factories and shops
Of New York, Boston, Philadelphia
and Pittsburgh, the girls showed no
envy of the other girls who could
have four years OF what they swal.
lowed in four days, and their con-
census Of opinion was that four years
Of Il might be all right" but IL was
easy to see that they doubted II.
AS Ruth Gilmore, from the Shaw
Stocking Company. Of Lowell. Mass,
said: .rr.
mo, I don't think ia like college
life-biology and all those things.
No, I'd just as soon have worked In
the mills" EE
The Vassar girls who remained
after school was out to help rlay
hostesses to the working girls con-
vention have been fhe most popular
girls of the week. Shes 4 peacn,"
the club girls would say Of a Vassar
girl as she passed by them.
The college education which the
working girls got In their four days
Of intensive study was bit different
from the usual college curriculum
Their courses were not concerning
sociology. calculus and Virgil, but
work.
who is to blame II you lose your
job7" Unemployment" Self sup
port and such subjects Of practical
import. ta.ts
All over the vast college grounds.
all through the long. bare corridors.
these newly transformed working
girls have been making merry. One
night they gave pageant depicting
the progress OF woman, which was
artistic, entertaining and successful.
They played at all the famous Vassar
ceremonies. such as hoop rolling. tree
ceremonies, club singing, and eS-
change Of songs and lanterns down
by the old lake. Then besides, there
have been bus rides, bike rides.
music, receptions. round tables, the
rush for mail from home, retreats,
chats, freak stunts, many. parades.
cheering. dance-and ukeleles,
Girls Are independent.
"The working girl Of today Is 30
per cent more Independent than she
was eight years ago." Miss Jean
Hamilton, general secretary OF the
National League. said to me. When
she was growing into womanhood,
the woman was at war and was
saying: Young woman, It's up to
you to save things and somehow
she has felt herself responsible and
has become more dependable and
more independent. She is great
Improvement. She Is also more
moral and more intelligent.
This convention gives many
working girls chance TO travel
for the first time In their lives and
make connections away from home
for them.
Z Connecticut working girls proved
themselves the strong woman of
the convention by running away
with the athletic honors and win
ming the large silver loving cup pre-
scented by the president. Mrs. Ber.
nard Il. Pollak, who brought out the
belief that college girls and working
girls are essentially the same In
their tastes and aims. Ath.
The working girls have petitioned
President Henry Noble McCracken,
OF vassar, 10 open vassar during
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