& » THESE dents Are Out fo Win fi No Long Vv ons This | Year ns in Other Sum- mers -- Instead the Stu- the War in Many Ways; { ing Farming and | Medicine, Also Surgery. ee eT ha fn Sain " COLLEGE VASSAR GIRL FARMERS, INOWN AS THE POMPER~ ETTES I APPRECIATION OF THER BLUE GING -- HAM OVERALLS. TO LY E.L. WOLVER, ei tne HERE are wo tong vacations at the Wellesley Camp, and in sddition to giv. women's colleges this year. These ing to them this special training ge hope seats of learning which were wont to work out a co-ordinated scheme capa- to be given over to the caretaker from | ble of rapid expansion to the whole coun: Inte, fn Jooe until: September and the| try. The Wellosley College Training campuses, whirl bef ® the war slumbered | Camp will reproduce-camy conditions ex: and drowsal through he suminibe's heat facrly so-that the students will andes. are ndWw astir with intymerable activities, | stand precisely what they will meet in The women's colle ges are working hakd [actual work. - It is sometimes possible to for the war, both ju theie undergraduate [obtain a house for a farm unit, and this, and their graduate bodies. In line with [of course, simplifies the problem of the "this thought a trafting camp for unit lead: | leader. But it is never safe to count on ers of the Women's Land Army wasithis. In many parts of the country a tent opened at Wellesley College. Miss Edith {camp is the ouly way to provide housing | Diehl. director of the camp, describes the (for the workérs in the neighborhood of enterprise as not so much an agricultural {their employment school as a normal schogl for the training! The course will last from eight to ten of women for farm worl, { weeks, and the cost to the student will The, Woman's Yand Army has foandibe $50 Wellesley College is defraying that if women are to be generally availa: | the rest of the expenses. The instructors ble in farm work they must have trained | will include experts in all branches and leadérs to take chagge of their camps, |the students. are most - carefully selected said Miss Diehl. The conditions of azri {from women who have had either college culture 'thromghont the couptry are such |training or efecutive experience. that it is necesfdry to establish camps | In addition to this training camp for womén workers sho can thus be sent! Wellesley College aldo is running a farm in groups to diffefent farmers of a neigh. | of about 100 acres, owned by the college borhood. . It has been found impracticable and not formerly cultivated. Three and "undesirable in every way for the | successive squads of girls who Jive in woman farm worker to make her home Wilder Hall, one of the smaller college \{ ee ¢ [that higher education has takeh a de ""TTege ground into a model farm: { Fhe students of this course Were grad: vated from college at least two years {ago. Professor Susan M. Kingsbury is director of the work, which is designed ta fill the need for women supervisors of n:upition plants and other war industries | { Mount Holyoke is making a record for fall sorts of war work. During the suin- mer. the college is giving its equipment, library, scientific apparatus, lecture rooms ang regidence halls for the use of & school\ffir women health officers The nndergradnated of Mount Holyoke (have tuwrped the twenty-bight 'acres of col. f Crops of eighteen varieties Have been pot in gnd an excellent harvest 'is expected. © A fore the close of the college term, and many of these girls are now attached te the Woman's Agricultural Camp at Bed ford. Baroard has not run a farm ox clusively its own, but has co-operated with {the Woman's Land-Army. -Several-of the new units of the Land Army are headed by Barnard students who made thelr novitiate Ay fiPmers in 1017. A feature of the post-graduhte work of Barnard is the training classes for women overseas workers of the Young Men's Christian Association. A special 'coutse or conference lasting one week is held at Barpard, open to sll woemen who dre to serve in the canteens in France. The conferences are under the direction of {#annery will occupy the girls later in the season, and they expect to put up 25,000 cans of vegetables. The girls rise at] | five o'clock and work six hours a day fis | the work on their own farm is not sif- ficient to.sutisfy their agricultural am- bitions they hire out in the afterndons to farmers in the neighborhood. A large | erop of thrift stamps has been the result fof this latter endeavor. It is said also cided boom up Moumt Holyoke way sines the students have convinced the sceptical iagricultarists of the region that -"book Miss Virginia Gildersleeve, Dean of Bar nard. Thirty-one workess were registered in the first conference, Hunter College is another New York {institution of learning whose students are devoting their vacations to Uncle: Sam. The newest work undertaken at Hunter this summer Is the Instruction in_X-fay photography intended for nurses and hos pital assistants, and the class is working hard. A number of students 'are doing intensive werk under the direction of Dr. Della Fox. of the City Hospital Smith College has organized a fost ins {larnin' " and musele, Hot to mention portant post graduate school for the tfain- GIRL IARMERS AT MOUNT HOLY ONE COL ECF tere 7 specialised war work Bryn Mawr turned to' factory work this summer. Jime the first group of students began a course of twdnstrial supervision. During | the first month the course consisted of |g labor problems, statistics and industrial experiences of the war and visits to in-| = dustrial establishments, such as the] Eddystons munitions plant and the Gen-| cral Blectric Company, On July 13 the! students loft for New England to.épend | the rest of fhe summer working in in| dustrial establishments to L | squads of twenty each, under the diree- tion of Professor Margaret Ferguson, of the Department of Botany. While Wellesley College is thus coming forward to systematize the movement of women to the farms, Vassar College is lending its support largely to increasing the nursing efficiency of the country. Under the 'auspices of the National Coureil 'vf Defence nnd the American Red Cross the Training Camp for Nurses was openad this summer at Vassar. Graduates of approvéa colleges are ad- mitted to the course. Henry Noble Mac- Cracken, president of Vassar, is president of the training camp organieation' and Herbert Elmer Mills, professor of eco- nomics, is dean of the faculty. The tower, has been dubbed "The Academie officers of th: arganization and the faculty Silo" by the professor of philosophy. 1 freind am nt physicians wnd educators Iy As her special branch of this high Excellent Hindu Dishes and How to Dumpake. Stuff a Baned chicken with a forcemeat made of boiled rice, fresh herbs, onions ind hard boiled eggs. Braise gently over a clear fire. 3 . . 'Kulleah Yekhanee, Slice a quantity of lean mutton very fine and place in justienough water to cover. Add four ounces of cloves and ginger, one tablespoonful of Sugar, two-of lime juide curry powder, with | "horse sense," are not incompatible. |ing of psychiatric social Workers. The | "I don't know as their college does| Training School has been established vn bas «ry much harm." admitted one employer] der the Huspices of the National Commit Fi | [tee on Mental Hygiene, and its object is at the farmhouse where she is employed, bafldings, and keep house for themselves |" There are to be sitty students at the enltivate the fatm. The girls work in deuk who are specialists in the branches which form part +f the corse. Four ~hundred and thirty college grad: tates enrolled for this course, They rep- resent women's colleges and co-educational institutions in alt parts of the country, Four o'clock in the morning finds the Vassar girls astir. They start at this tiotir of their own choice in order to get their work done while it is cool. A latge motor truck, operated by ome of their rumber, carries squads to and from the mere distant fields. Their blue gingham overalls have won for them the name of "fomperettes," bestowed by the nurses in the training school. North Hall, where they lodge and which has a great central ri di ss | somewhat grudgingly, "as long's they're { good for suthin' afterward." © prepare women of superior gifts and training to deal with peychopathie condi More than a hundred Barnard under: raduates volunteered for farmework be-{tions and those resulting from the war. Capable Women : Jottings About the Doings of the Fair Sex While waiting to be called to testify in & government suit, Miss Olive Kidder, of Detroit, knitted a dozen pairs of socks for Uncle' Sam's soldiers in France. Miss Louise Parker has been appointed Assistant City Engineer or Visalfa, Cal. She only recently piaduated 4s a civil engineer from the Iniversity of California. Of the thirty-seven mail carriers em- ployed inthe Mhgiiia Park (Mich) post Office, ithirteen ae "X6Men, all of whom have proved that théy are just as effi- cleft as men tn deiiverifig 'ma'l Congress is devoting muck attention to a bill which win, i becomes a law, set a minifiuth Wage to be paid women employed in the various industries of eolintry, omen with' draughting fraining and experience may help in the Navy Depart- ment at Washington, 'n which there are openings for women skilled in this kind of work. The salary ranges from $4 to as a day - " anchise law giving HILADELPHIA has a government factory in which every employe is a woman, The authorities of Coney Island prohibit women from bathing without stockings, Miss Ruth Chivis Is now in Detroit in- vestigating industrial conditions among female workers. Women. employed on Maryland farms are pAIE Nt the rate of $15 a MORTAR wy their board, ° . Mary MacArthur, a Scotch woman, is al candidate for a seat in the Britlsh Parfia- ment. During the month of June (Ne Pehnsyl- vania Railrosd added 1,431 women to its working force. y The Union Pacific Railroad will shortly try an experiment by using, women to load freight cats. > Trade unions in Great Britaln have shewh | enofnious increases in feminine membership duting the past Year. One of the latest forms of war work for women Is that of bee raising to increase the supply 'of honey. . Women in Texas may vote in the pri- maries a restricted suffrage act e last session of the Legis. d there are.mang wi which "they | Wave been introduced by the Secretary of| War throtigh his representatives. They | will go back to the college in October and! will devote two-thirds of their~time to the theory of industrial supervison and one-third to practice in some special line of industrin] management or welfare work Cure Them by a Dose of Good Coiritntn Sénse. power for good. 1 had worked early aha late, 1 had not spared myself, dad how the hour had come that each one of us must face some time--1 was 'breaking dn- der the strain of many years of work, as I could no longer go the pace, but must EO out or go under. As I would wot 50 under, I decided that I must BO out, "Through the long night 1 Jay awake, worrying, thinking, as women will. I had failed. And then | hegan 10 review the years, to recall the work that I been enabled to do, the aid that I ha given, the way I had worked through days of darkness and days that were bright, and 1 fell aslegp with a hew. pourage, born of the realization that if I lind Tailed at inst, I bad first sucoseded. "The next mornin tion I haa hela frank with mysel k I told them thet § was 100 tired to inflict my nerves on other 'people; I felt 1 had dome my part for : organi zatidn, and that now i hs, to myself and family. At consternation, for my il a Way, a reorganization of But 1 had m up my ¢ Ang I 4 t the , ERVES are no longer fashionable The time his pissed when, should anything go wrong, milady is per- mitted to throw dignity to the winds and in & peevish fit of temper disorganize the nrbit of her daily life. It is & day of actomplishrhient, a titne of achievement. No longer my we ko our | rithibas woman way, treading on the feel- ings of other people, offending the sen- sibifities of our frienas' and neglecting to cultivate that poise and thax perspec. tye: which will enable us to Zo forward in a helpful way in the world: But it must be borne in mind that there is 'a difference in nerves that is induced by temper and 'By lack of self-control ind a condition of nerves tiwt is brought about by strain and overwork, Perhfips the greatest fault of the too ambitious business woman is that she in- sists upon burning the candle at both ends. She refuses to realize that she is! 4 person of flesh as well a8 of spirit, and n her effort to be in two places at the 'same, time sha so saps ber vitality that it 1s little wonder If her nerves get fraz- wed and her physical and mental self out of geur. % ¢ Ehe found that she could not "get alowg with' people." Here a sharp Ada a wineglasstul of water and place oo tire, When the lettuce falls shake the sance pan till the peas are uppermost. Add pep pér and salt and a dessertspoorful of sugar. Stew till the peas are ténider. The fire for this should be brisk. Guava Ice. Dissolvé one-half pound of guava jelly with a» little water as possible, mix in a pint of cream and freeze. + Kedgeree. : One teaspoonful boiled rice mixed with 'japy cold fish. Add two beaten eggs, © little butter, pepper and salt to suit the taste. stir over fire till very hot and serve fer quick tongue wounded a f {VALUE OF WHITE OILCLOTH|": unjust' criticism hurt a Comore : And at last it came home she was nothing more nor Hervous wreck. 3 day 38 the of- BE have taken one step' toward practical and economical culinary - « when we interest ourselves to find find -out how , other housewives besides those of bur own land and time have man- aged. The Hinds have much to teach us. Here are some recipes which the American cook would do well to try ;-- Kobbe: - Boil a fine' cabbage, press free from water and cut into slices. Take a few &rean onions previo botled and chopped | Pepper and sa ogether Fier Stir well opener. nh stock and the juice = Under the new ti every one who has lived in Ireland six months Hght to vote, thousands of women will be enabled assert their rights with the Ballot nt coming elec: tions fn that country \ Hy Returning frome college and finding her} father's deputy in the army, Miss Mar tigaset McCord, of Seymour, Ind., decided to take the 30b . and herfr a arel Sworn in as a deputy sheriff to ass her father in his duties. : anFiasel Drew. ot Nite Mas 5 while I was HH usstyl, "It Wis hard fol them a Whits ocilcloth will change a dark, dingy {kitchen to qge that is clean and bright. A yard of it %ill save you from looking Lat The worn Off paint at the base of the dish closet oF the inside window ledge nm A A strip along the wall beside the sink will catch Spattered drops of dish water jor drainings may be easily cleaned With a lightly sosped cloth. A yard of 3 cover the of the kitchen table. with some 0 spare, A lanzth of a few 4 more will 1oake the tops of wash. | "One wight, altér a hard fice," she said, "1 Neh t home a sounsel with myspll = 1 reviewed fifteen years, With sil their worries and +t 8 past] "After & rest of several bs and! fused Sh otfe: rem my former ars suc-| to go BEAN Lo. my work, | knew that and 1 { Bad had my day in the Touiing pr ban: . n badness life te Shia brimmed with other work that By on-| "Ho 1 Sndentraied on Had Deen vital, was the outgrowth of the work I had been blessed! given up. 1 aliowed myself so Ao 0 Tortinate in haves day, and I have again 1 IN