EDUCATED GIRLS IN BUSINESS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11028, 18 August 1903, Page 6

EDUCATED GIRLS IN BUSINESS.

The advance of woman into the realms of business is dealt with by Mary C. Crawford in- the New Yolk Outlook. Rather paradoxically, she. says, many the new activities in which the 'educated' girl is now engaging are but reversions' to the primitive occupations of her grandmother. Only the aspect' of them has changed. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, two -well-bred College girls- are carrying on a highly successful bakery. In Wellesley, in the same State, two girls started tea rooms which have grown to be'^the college inn. The students lasjfc yearigUDSoribed for the. stock in the inn', and thus enabled the girls to secure the funds necessary to erect a fine new building. ' The girls have also started a • successful weekly paper, the first in connection • with & girls' college, that^ha's paid its way. In. the same State agairi, two girL .graduates of Smith . College are running a laundry. The employment bureau business has been attempted by several girl graduates, and in one or two cases agencies have been commenced which make good and satisfactory contracts in amelioration of the servant girl trouble. There is also the work •of' a social secretary which can be well carried out by . college girte. A tactful-anxl'force-ful woman is often required to act as gobetween in cases of dispute between firms and their- employees, and college gir]p have filled these positions admirably. At Ludlow, Massachusetts, Miss Louise Holmes has charge of 800 girls belonging to the factories. The management of the mills placed large premises at her disposal, and she immediately started cooking classes and classes for physical' exercises. In Boston Mrs Mary Sears, who was . trained in the best ateliers in London , and Paris, , teaches with enthusiasm, and. .success the art of bookbinding. ThcsQ aye a few of the occupations- into-- which. • the American " town girl has entered of- late years. In the .country iher -opportunities, beyond school teaching, are not so plentiful. . One girl w"ho was left with a greeifchouse property on her hands went into* the study of the business,. and has now"-a small fruit department 'stocked jnth vari'e■ties not elsewhere obtainable; Anothfer girl living/ at- a distance .from N£w York makes a good income by raising violets for florists and private customers— a"ri' ex-, ample that Ms already been followed with success i riNew Zealand. There are also girls making a living by magazine illustrating, by photography, blue and wiite teinbroidery, and. basket-making. It is doubtful if New Zealand could yet "point" to such a catalogue of occupations for educated girls.

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