Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1901 — Wellesley College Girls Start a Restaurant. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Wellesley College Girls Start a Restaurant .

Women critics who complain that a college education wholly unfits a girl for success in the more distinctly domestic callings, and men cynics who assert that women never have any business ability, anyhow, will be quite disconcerted by the success of the Wellesley tea room and the news that this venture is now to be incorporated as a stock company to be wholly managed and controlled by the girls of the college with which it is connected, •ays Boston Globe.

Until four years ago there was no place In Wellesley where the faculty and undergraduates of Wellesley could meet for relaxation and social intercourse. To Miss Mary Chase, ’96, of Philadelphia, and Miss Clara Shaw of Kentucky the brilliant idea of starting a tea room as a central rendezvous for Wellesley girls then suggested itself with the result that the present plant was placed In operation. Miss Shaw, as it happened, soon left the college for Chicago university, and upon the

shoulders of Miss Chase fell the bur* den of the work. The first cook was a typical old-time southern mammy with a gilt In the matter of Maryland biscuit Another specialty of the place was and Is still tea-room cake, to experience the Indigestible delights of which Dana hall girls vie with Wellesley maids in eagerness. It was because the college girls had come to feel so warm a personal Interest in the success of the plan that the Incorporation Bcheme was set in motion by Miss Chase and agitated this summer by Miss Elizabeth Newkirk, ’OO, Miss Clara Conklin, ’O2, Miss Alice Dana Knox, 'OO, and Miss Caroline Rogers, ’OO. Miss Knox has a large following at Wellesley among the students, who have greatly admired her work In the college’s Shakespeare productions, and Miss Rogers is a force in the community, not only because she is herself a very charming girl, but also from the fact that she last year conducted tha tea-room with great success, The venture outgrew some time ago its embryonic stage. Lunches are now served a la carte at the noon hour, and catering for receptions, teas and college dances is likewise accepted. Moreover, there are six bedrooms and a very happy little Wellesley family here enjoy all the comfortß of home. Quite a staff of servants, a cook, two maids, a housekeeper and a boy are now employed, so the thing has grown to be a household of rather large proportions, quite imposing enough to have Its Incorporation the best thing for all concerned. The shares, which were offered to undergraduates, faculty and alumnae, are now all gone, and the suggestion has taken so well that there is talk of building a house for the better carrying on of the plant.

SOME SCENES AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE.