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 341 dren's garments, cutting out, dressmaking for little children). Hygiene and nursery management (care and management of infants and young children, simple remedies, nursery diet). Hospital teaching (enables proba- tioners to acquire a knowledge of how to manage sick, convalescent, or incurable children). After the hospital work, the student takes a fortnight's holiday, and on returning to the Norland Institute she receives Frcebelian Instruction as follows : Frcebelian occupations and methods. Nature study and brush-work. Principles and art of education. The care and management of little children. Needlework. The above instruction is followed by four weeks' holiday, after which the probationer enters the Norland Nurseries, where her training is completed by practical work, a nurse, as- sisted by a probationer, acting as under-nurse, managing a model day and night nursery containing, as a rule, three children. On completion of training, as outlined above, probationers over twenty-one who have attained the standard of pro- ficiency required by the author- ities of the institute will be provided, if required, with situations at salaries varying from ;/^26 to ^30 per annum. Those under twenty-one and those not- quite so well qualified are found situations at salaries from £10 to Iia,. ^ ^^^ """^"^ The certificate of the institute is awarded for general proficiency on condition that the testimonial for each period of training is satisfactory and the probationer has com- pleted six months' satisfactory work in a family. The fees payable for complete training at the Norland Institute amount to ;^8o, pay- able as follows : ^30 on entrance, £10 at the end of the first three months, {2.0 on return to the institute, and ;^io on entering the nurseries. Princess Christian College The Princess Christian College (Address : 19, Wilmslow Road, Withington, Man- chester) is another first-class training college, established under the presidency of H.R.H. Princess Christian, to meet the increasing demand for ladies as children's nurses, and to provide the necessary training for a career which is so eminently suited for educated women who have a natural sympathy with young children. The fees are sixty guineas, payable in two instalments of thirty guineas each, the first before the commencement of the training, and the second within fifteen weeks after- wards. The instruction consists of two terms of fifteen weeks each. Practical training is WOMAN'S WORK afforded by the residence in the college of several children under six years of age, as well as young infants. The subjects taught include general rules of health, first aid and home nursing, infant feeding, nursery management, domes- tic work, nursery laundry-work, nursery cooking, needlework, Kindergarten games, driUing, etc. Students are not admitted under twenty years of age, and the commencing salary required by the college for a certificated Princess Christian nurse is, as a rule, ;^3o per annum. After obtaining her " nurse's certifi- cate," the nurse finds her own posts, and arranges her salary with and receives it direct from her employer. Posts are to be obtained with salaries of £40 and ^^'^o per annum and upwards. -Princess Christian College, Manchester How to Become a Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nurse The woman who aspires to become a Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nurse wwsifhave served at least three years in a civil hospital of not less than one hundred beds. If she possesses this qualification the candidate should write to the War Office, Whitehall, S.W., making application. She will then be required to satisfy a sub- committee of the nursing board that she is fit, socially, professionally, and physically, for the post she seeks. A candidate for appointment as staff nurse must be from twenty-five to thirty -five years of age. Any nurse may- expect to be drafted to foreign stations. Egypt, Gibraltar, Malta, South Africa, and -Hong-Kong are all places to which she may be sent. Her period, therefore, of service abroad is, as a rule, limited to from three to five years, and this part of her career should prove very pleasant, especially if she comes of a military family or has male relations in the Service. By the by, she herself takes rank as being " in the Service." If a woman is accepted for service as a staff nurse, she is appointed pro'isionally for