at plays the piano for the exercises in the gymnasium is
paid for that, and some of the girls paint and make fancy articles,
which they sell here, or send to the stores in New York, to be sold.
Some of them write for the newspapers and magazines, too, and still
others have pupils in music, etc., in Poughkeepsie. Yes, there are a
great many girls who manage to pay most of their expenses."

Typewriting, tutoring, assistance rendered in library or laboratory or
office, furnish help to many a girl who wishes to help herself, in
nearly every college. Beside these standard employments, teaching in
evening schools occasionally offers a good opportunity for steady eking
out of means.

In many colleges there is opportunity for a girl with taste and cunning
fingers to act as a dressmaker, repairer, and general refurnisher to
students with generous allowances. Orders for gymnasium suits and
swimming suits mean good profits. The reign of the shirt-waist has
been a boon to many, for the well-dressed girl was never known to have
enough pretty ones, and by a judicious display of attractive samples
she is easily tempted to enlarge her supply. Then, too, any girl who
is at all deft in the art of sewing can make a shirt-waist without a
professional knowledge of cutting and fitting.

No boy or girl in America to-day who has good health, good morals and
good grit need despair of getting a college education unless there are
extremely unusual reasons against the undertaking.

West of the Alleghanies a college education is accessible to all
classes. In most of the state universities tuition is free. In
Kansas, for example, board and a room can be had for twelve dollars a
month; the college fees are five dollars a year, while the average
expenditure of the students does not exceed two hundred dollars per
annum. In Ohio, the state university has abolished all tuition fees;
and most of the denominational colleges demand fees even lower than
were customary in New England half a century ago. Partly by reason of
the cheapness of a college education in Ohio, that state now sends more
students to college than all of New England. Yet if the total cost is
less in the West, on the other hand, the opportunities for self-help
are correspondingly more in the East. Every young man or woman should
weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out
of the question.

Former President Tucker of Dartmouth says: "The student w