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 presidential candidate. She keeps her from doing the wrong things.

Can you picture the diplomacy, the social training, the experience necessary to perform these complicated duties? In your heart, do you believe you could perform them? If so, fill your trunk with pretty clothes, your bag with letters of introduction to influential men and women, and be prepared to work like a diplomat for a foothold in the fashionable world. You must gain this before you can apply for a post as social secretary. You will have more things to do than arrange invitation lists. If you do not believe this, read Edith Wharton's wonderful story of fashionable life, "The House of Mirth."

A young woman who thought that she would like to be private secretary to a club-woman, urged as one of her qualifications the fact that she could write excellent literary papers. She was greatly surprised when she learned that she must have a knowledge of stenography before she could apply for such a position, so heavy is the correspondence of a club-woman of state or national fame.

But she was not dismayed, for she was a girl with "the one idea"—to become a private secretary. She is in New York to-day, almost at the end of her course in shorthand and typewriting. In the meantime she has joined sev-