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Show 1 1 f with these ventures, she found ocverai high school pupils la tha hotel who bad examinations to faco In the fall when they returned to school. Sho "coached" several of them In Iitlu. algebra, geometry geome-try and French threo afternoons each week at ono dollar on hour. Still another girl, who did not mind doing tho work, went to one of tho hotels nud found an abundance of customers custo-mers for manicuring and hair-dressing. Phe also kept on band a supply of popular popu-lar toilet preparations ond fancy soaps. A friend of hers obtained a position la tho linen room of tho en me botel ond lo addition made shirtwaists not tho ordinary ordi-nary kind, but elaborate, expensive ones-to ones-to order for several of tho wealthy guests nnd attended to tho mending and darning darn-ing of many moro women who wished to bo entirely free from household cores during their vacation. She also found a ready sale for articles of fancy work, etc., oultablo for Christmas present or for personal use. Still another girl, ot the sauio botel a college , girl serving there as a waitress was an excellent omatcur photographer. She made a specialty spe-cialty of children. In between mealtime shu followed tho children of tbe guests ot piny and csnght striking 6oaphots of them. She found no difficulty In persuading per-suading their parents to buy the photographs. photo-graphs. 'Wltli hor largo camera sho took group photographs of parties of guests on tho veranda, along tbo beach, etc., ond disposed of them at thoroughly satisfactory satis-factory prices. CO THE woman who does not have tbe wherewithal given her by o loving husband or father, tbe securing se-curing of n vacation M a problem Indeed. Of course. If she has a regular position the year round. It Is simply a question of managing her funds so that when vacation time comes she will have sufllcl.-nt laid by to defray tho expenses. If she has not, however, or If she be a girl who Is not compelled to work for her living, but Is forced to earn her own vacation or, again, If she wants extra pocket money for a trip, the fundamental expenses of which ore paid for her tbere aro many little ways In whlh she can earn vacation money, some of them so unpromising that tbey aro apt to bo overlooked. Ono woman last season went to a popular popu-lar but moderate-priced resort In tho mountains of Virginia. Sho had saved enongh to defray her expenses for two weks. Sho was charmed with the place and looked forward with regret to her approaching departure. Toward the end of the first week sho noticed a number of the guor.ts at one end of tho veranda playing cards. Thero was one woman among them, however, who played first at one table, then at another, and 80 on nntll, she bad covered all. She was giving Icksods In bridge whist ot 23 cents pr capita, nud she had a class of 16 three times n week, Tho observant woman thought the matter over. If she could only teach bridge she would earn sufficient, with her regular small allowance allow-ance from home, to 6tay as long as she cared. Sho couldn't teach bridge, but t-he was an expert with her needle. Sbo started, half-heartedly, to organlzo an embroidery class. The women, wcleoro-tug wcleoro-tug anything to help pass the loo mornings, entered her class with enthusiasm. enthu-siasm. She stayed at the hotel until September. Another girl earned her vacation In a most original manner. Sho was lo college col-lege nod didn't qulto like to go to a summer resort as a waitress though several sev-eral of her classmates did not hesltnto to do so. She, however, choso a seaside sea-side resort where there 1 a largo sanatorium. sana-torium. Sho went straight to tho proprietor pro-prietor of tho place, with letters of Introduction, In-troduction, ond stated her request, which was cheerfully granted. Tbeu sho engaged en-gaged room ond board ot a nearby hotel. In less than a week she had her entire mornings, engaged In reading to Tarlous patients at tho sanatorium at so much per hour. Several of them, wealthy patients, enlisted her services as letter-writer. letter-writer. Sbo did mending and darning for others. In her hotel, after maklnj arrangements with ono of tb big circulating cir-culating libraries, she established an ageucy for tbe latest popular novels and rented "them out at so much per day. Her commissions on this amounted to n surprisingly sur-prisingly satisfactory sum. Not content |
