Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1920 — MEET EXPENSES BY DOING HOUSEWORK [ARTICLE]

MEET EXPENSES BY DOING HOUSEWORK

Indiana University Girls Have Many Plans to Earn Money to Attend School. Sixteen girl students at Indiana University are working their way through school by doing housework. In addition five «irls are engaged in stenographic work and seven do clerical work. Board and room are given for four hours of service each day. Twentyfive cents per hour is allowed for extra time spent on housework or care of children in the day time. Staying with children when they are asleep nets ten cents for extra time. Girls must have at least two evenings and two afternoons free per week. For staying with the children when asleep fifteen cents is to be paid for the first hour and ten cents for each hour after. For one hour only twenty cents is if the children are asleep and twenty-five if awake. After 10:15 the girl is to be escorted home or sent in a taxi. Get Dinner Too. Girls are to be paid $2.50 per week and allowed their dinner each day for preparing dinner and washing the dishes, with twenty-five cents for overtime work. Regular time is counted as two and a half hours (5 to 7:45). Twenty-five cents per hour is the minimum wage for cleaning, sweeping or dusting, while thirty cents is the maximum. Washing' and ironing bring thirty cents an hour, mending and plaid sewing thirty cents and dish washing and waiting table twenty-five emits. Trained workers may ask thirty-five cents per hour for typewriting or stenographic work. Clerical work brings twenty-five cents per hour.