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 attendants, on country estates. Sometimes, if the mental defect is very slight, they are permitted to travel. With many the attacks are periodic, and during the interim these poor girls are pleasant company.

For the companion who does her duty by such a patient, the reward is generous, and the family shows its appreciation in a most practical manner, while the devotion and appreciation of the patient is in itself a beautiful recompense.

And now for the many teachers who desire positions in families going abroad for a protracted tour. The woman who has only a high-school education has little or no chance to seeure such a post. If the trip is for a year or more, the education of the children goes on precisely as if they were at home with a visiting or resident governess. That is, during certain hours of each day regular lessons are given, and the studies are those offered in fashionable private schools. A knowledge of French and German is almost essential. If there are boys in the party, Latin and Greek must be taught. Drawing and music may be included in the course of instruction, and, more than this, the traveling governess assumes almost entire responsibility for the children during the trip, unless a maid is also carried. She is chaperon to the girls on board ship, and their companion during all sight-seeing trips, for which reason