Desire to get through college has urged many a student to work; not only waiting on the table, marking tennis courts, selling books, digging ditches, but also nursing babies.
Nursing babies has been a somewhat new “innovation”—a very lucrative one. All one has to do is to watch the baby; see that he does not swallow the milk bottle, that he does not eat unclean mud. In other words, one has to see that the baby “has a good time in a clean way.”
This new “invention” has been one of mutual benefit, both to the student and to the weary housewife. The student does not only receive a reasonable compensation for services rendered, but he also finds time to study with very little interference; for the average aby is of very little trouble. The housewife, on the other hand, profits as well. She finds time to go to church, to attend afternoon teas, clubs, and also carry out petty transactions necessitating her personal supervision.
A great number of men have entered this new field—nursing babies—and many others are following their footsteps; for there is a great opportunity for the student who really desires a college degree, and who is actually willing to pay the price for it.
From The Tar Heel, Extra edition, April 30, 1922
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