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 trained. Those generally chosen for the post are women of family and social position, who have met with financial reverses, and whose chief asset is not their ability to indite a graceful note, but to place at the command of their employer their own social acquaintance, which is invaluable to the newcomer. The employer already established socially has for her secretary a young woman who is one of her household staff, or who calls daily to answer correspondence, send out invitations or perform other clerical duties. But if the employer is newly arrived on the social horizon, she selects as her secretary one of the women reared in luxury and social favor, who has been suddenly deprived of financial revenue.

This sort of secretary must have the names of desirable people at her finger-tips. She must be able to tell her employer who is worth meeting and who should be avoided, and she must bring her own social connections to bear in furthering the interests of her ambitious client. She must know how to arrange entertainments for her employer, and how to bring the right people to Mrs. Newly-Rich's house. She is social sponsor rather than secretary, a human' compendium of smart etiquette and good form, an advisory board in the question of gowns and house furnishings. In fact, she is to the social climber what the campaign manager is to the