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 are advertised; and the crimes committed against society and especially against the inexperienced woman whose feet stray over their threshold in search of an honest trade are despicable. Manicuring, hairdressing and facial massage are legitimate trades, but they have been dragged into the very mire by unscrupulous workers. Do you want to become one of these?

Certainly not! Then keep away from the "beauty school" and learn your trade, if you think it is the one trade for you, in a more honest and earnest fashion.

In the shop you must serve all who come, sober or otherwise, able-bodied or diseased, and if the customer indulges in immoderate, unjustified fault-finding, which sometimes amounts to insult, a liberal tip is supposed to be the only apology necessary.

Understand I do not say all shops come under this head. There are a few establishments in every city where the bacilli of dishonesty and criminal carelessness have not yet found a nesting-place. But it is the shop such as I have described which, unfortunately, appeals most generally to the out-of-town girl, for whom this book has been written. She knows nothing of city life. She knows nothing of those who manage shops or patronize them. She judges the shop and its trade purely from cleverly-written,