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
PLAN No. 397. A WOMAN GETS AN EDUCATION AND $500
Very few girls can expect to go to a university with $50 in their pockets and come out not only with the education they were seeking and $500 in cash besides. But there was one girl who did this.
Being a good stenographer and typist, she soon had plenty of work. She took up mimeographing, which paid well, and later was engaged to help one of the professors prepare the matter for a book he was writing. This gave her a desk of her own in the economics department, where she helped to complete the book, read the proofs, and kept well up with her studies at the same time.
When she graduated, all her expenses were paid and she had an even $500 left over.
PLAN No. 398. RAISING GOLD FISH
Two women, living together, built in their yard a shallow pond of rocks, cemented together so as to hold water, surrounding this with a second row of rocks, not cemented, and filled the space between with earth, in which were set mosses and delicate plants, thus giving the pond a broad rim of dainty growing things.