PLAN No. 396. WOMAN OBTAINS MUSICAL EDUCATION ON $45
A young lady who wished to become a music teacher went through College nicely on $45 cash—and a lot of hard work to make up the deficit.
Registering at a well known conservatory of music in an eastern city, she secured work in the dining hall connected with the home department. This paid for her room and board, piano rent, medical attention and $15 tuition in any study she might select. She added to this by accompanying voice pupils while practicing, and by playing accompaniments at receptions, assisted in physical culture exercises in the gymnasium, also gave lessons to boys and girls. Then she addressed envelopes, sewed bindings on skirts, shampooed hair, wrote college letters to newspapers, played light classics at a mountain resort, won a scholarship by taking subscriptions for a woman’s publication. Through the above services rendered by her she defrayed all college expenses.
Plan No. 396. Her First Music Lesson