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all fields in which to sow her energies, the well-educated but otherwise untrained girl who suddenly faces the problem of self-support will find the modern library the most promising. So far the profession is not overcrowded, and the good worker is in demand.

It is a field open alike to the graduate of college, finishing school or high school, but it is absolutely closed to the girl who barely managed to pull through the graded schools, and who, through either force of circumstances or inclination, stopped when she acquired a rudimentary knowledge of the English branches. It is an ideal field for the woman who is intellectual, yet lacks ability to express this intellectuality in literary form. It often proves a most profitable and pleasant field for the teacher of methodical habits, good education and bookish tastes, who somehow lacks the gift of disciplining and instilling knowledge in the youthful mind.

But it is not the field for that common type