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 those beseeching eyes and a dimple in her chin would be no earthly use to me."

If you want to be a traveling companion you must first learn how to travel, how to handle tickets and baggage, how to lift all responsibilities from your fussy, fretful patron, how to keep yourself and your charge fresh-looking and well groomed on boat or train, how to handle the inevitable laundry problem, how to protect your employer from the extortions of hackmen and porters. In fact, you are troublebearer-in-extraordinary.

The girl who has traveled and thoroughly enjoys it, who has some knowledge of nursing or attendance upon the sick, should try to reach patrons through physicians. If her acquaintance will not warrant this, there are agencies where she may register, and many openings come through the "want ad," columns of city papers.

A beautiful if somewhat trying work is done by a number of young women, trained as described above, in families of the rich, where an unfortunate daughter must be screened from curious eyes. If you are not afraid of epileptic patients or of one suffering from some mild mental derangement, you can find work of this sort which pays well and insures a life of comparative ease. Very often these unhappy daughters of the very rich are kept, with their