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 tion offers in large cities, and which will fit you for any emergencies which may arise during the journey with a delicate employer. Your certificate from such a school, letters of introduction to physicians, good health, cheerfulness, steady nerves and a talent for minimizing discomforts of travel will insure your success in this work.

On board a steamship bound for the Mediter ranean, my table companion was a wealthy New York woman who was really quite well and strong, but who believed that she was traveling for her health. The chair on her right had been vacant during the entire voyage, and just before landing she explained the situation:

"My traveling companion has just gone on deck for the first time since we passed Sandy Hook. I engaged her to wait upon me, and she has not raised her head from her pillow until to-day. When I think of what I shall have to tip our stewardess! But, you see, she never crossed before, and did not understand that the longer she remained in her berth the sicker she would become. In Naples I shall give her a month's salary and a ticket home. I cannot be bothered with her any longer. I shall be turning nurse myself next. And it serves me right for giving the position to a girl who needed money, rather than to an experienced companion, I might have known that a girl with