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 tion of methods employed by a first-class manicurist, together with practice, are perhaps the best substitute for private lessons.

Next to this comes the correspondence school. I fully realize that established workers will criticize this statement severely, but it must be borne in mind that the girl who served an apprenticeship in a beauty shop ten or even five years ago was really trained for the work, while to-day the methods, unfortunately, are those described in the opening pages of this chapter. On the other hand, I have investigated personally the courses offered by two reliable correspondence schools, and found them thorough, accurate, and workmanlike. The girl who cannot master the trade by the aid of such a course and diligent practice will never succeed as a "graduate" from a beauty shop or "school." In fact, in this trade, as in almost any line of work, the girl who really wills to succeed will find a way.

The manicurist who calls on transient customers, such as tourists stopping at hotels, generally receives fifty cents per treatment. Her regular customers, whom she visits two or three times a week, she charges at the rate of thirty-five cents a call. In addition to visiting customers in their homes, many house-to-house workers in large cities have hospital and sanitarium practice, visiting convalescents who,