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 eral active clubs, and has lived at an apartment house in whose parlors many women's organizations meet. Moreover, she has learned how to dress in a fashion suitable to the secretary of a woman of affairs. She has laid aside the somewhat gay, if girlish, finery she brought to New York, and has achieved the tailor-made air and the good grooming which stamp her as a successful business girl, even before she has a position. After preparing for the work in so thorough and systematic a way, I believe that her first position will be one that many a more experienced girl might envy.

Incidentally, clothes and bearing count tremendously if you desire to be on the staff of well-to-do employers. The day of the shrinking, shabby, self-effacing companion is past. The capable woman has arrived—even in the rôle of companion.

The girl who desires a position as compan ion or attendant to a semi-invalid must prepare for this work also. At any registry for trained nurses they will tell you that the custom of employing training-school graduates as traveling companions is growing. This does not mean that you must take a full course to secure any such position, but you should have had some experience in nursing, and if you have not had this you can take an abridged course in nursing, such as the Young Women's Christian Associa-