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 family hotels, or boarding-houses, or through the mail, using the telephone directory for securing addresses. When the influence and help of a hotel manager, clerk or housekeeper is desired, the new candidate for patronage generally keeps in order, free of charge, the hands of the person who will be helpful to her. But the most desirable trade comes through the recommendations of satisfied customers. The stranger in a city will do well to take a room in some small hotel or large boarding-house, where professional and business women stay in large numbers. She will soon build up a good trade among her fellow-roomers.

The girl who lives in a small city may have some difficulty in securing a reliable private teacher, simply because established manicurists do not particularly desire to train competitors in a field which they feel quite able to fill. Such a condition can be met by having the hands done regularly by one manicurist, time and time again, studying every movement of the work keenly and putting what is thus learned through observation into practice at home. In addition to this, several good books on practical methods of beautifying the human form have been written by experts. They can be purchased at any reliable book-shop or ordered through any dealer. The conscientious study of these books and the diligent observa-