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 City, and within a few months be managing an establishment of your own. But this is what will happen:

You will promise to pay anything from twenty-five to one hundred dollars, according to your gullibility, for the course of training that is to lead to a "diploma" and a guaranteed position. You will find yourself in a shop, not a school, where you will pay for the privilege of being an apprentice. You, who had such lovely visions of gliding over velvet-covered floors in a long black frock with perfectly coiffed hair and tapering white fingers, will be sweeping, dusting, running after, nets and shampoo mixtures, patiently holding the dye for the expert worker, washing brushes and combs and cleaning up the tiny apartments in which the various toilet mysteries are conducted.

If your hair is dressed at all, it will-be done by a fellow-apprentice who, in her inexperience, burns it. If you ask for some of the promised instruction, you will be passed on, from one worker to another, until the best-natured girl on the staff finally condescends to give you some very indifferent instruction. The head of the "school," you will generally find, knows little or nothing about the trades. He merely invests the capital and trusts the actual work to his hirelings. Among your fellow-workers, you