WORK FOR WOMEN

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13847, 6 November 1918, Page 5

WORK FOR WOMEN

Travelling with the Qha-utauqua. . party on board the* Niagara wde Missi Thurston, who is a gi*adua.te of the journalistic s.ide of Ainerioain university' life (says the "Auctoaiid Star"). The course at Oregiati"' State University to which sihe is attached consists' of foiir years'; »aliu3y,' ait the i end of wluion time''a"'degree 1 ':i& gaiaintted. The dean is also in touch "with, the papers, and procures' students positions. During 6he la^t few years women have more and more gone into the general reporting side of the profession, and' it is. to eiiter this branch that most direofc their' studies. Many of these girls Wbrki their way through college because they have no money, and keep themselves by outside work. In this way, the Y.W.C.A. is very helipful, a B ii miakes a speciality of getting work for the strugglers, who fill in tlieir spare time between, lectures in earnling board. Many of them hiave taken up war gardens attached to tihe dormi tjories where tibey'live, wfoicib are very succeeeful both in growing food, and also in providing vegetaibles for which there is a, market-. Miss Thtirston stated that it wag, wonder^ ful what some of the girls had made and saved so that they, too, could take up the thrift stamps wMcih are offered by the- Gknvernment. TiWe students, who are working their way, help in the harvesting of the small fruits, such as cherries amd other stone fruit for fhe markets,, amd this year tihe Stat© Univerity of Oregon did not begin till late, so that the girl students could help with the hia.rvest. One of the things: wMoh astonished tihe American, visitor 1 was the plemtifulness and oheaipness of food in Auckland. It wa^i a subject that had made a great iflhfpressidn upon" her. Till she.went on: boait-d the Niagara, she had not tasted wheat bread for some considerable time. Slie; ' had eaten oatenmeal bireacl, " whjch she said wa® very good 1; barley bread, corn meal 'bread, and bread rbiade of part potatoes; but to see wihtitel fbread eveoywhere »trufck her a« very remarkable. Ameriba. hiad made such on effort to feed thto Allies that white bread had long raatiflsihed from the table.

, The Te Aroha "News" is looking 1 far ahead, for it says:—'"That a scheme is being propounded for a big sea-level canal to make Te Aroha a port for ooean'-going* sbeaineris. More anon!"