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 though they have hospital attendance, are glad to have the visiting manicurist care for their hands and incidentally keep them in touch with the busy world beyond the sanitarium doors. This sort of work is secured through trained nurses, superintendents of hospitals and sanitariums, physicians and regular customers who have friends recovering from illness.

When a girl has thoroughly mastered manicuring and secured an established trade, she may wish to study another line of similar work, particularly shampooing. This is by no means a complicated branch of the trade to learn. To thoroughly cleanse the scalp without drenching the customer or causing more than a minimum of discomfort; to select the correct shampoo mixture for the different sorts of hair, blonde, brunette, red, oily or dry; to dry the hair properly; to singe it and wave it if the customers so desire, complete the training of the girl who announces herself as ready to do shampooing. The waving is not essential, but it is often the means of holding a customer who does not patronize a professional hairdresser, and who dislikes the task of waving her own locks. But the girl who does waving only should never exploit herself as a hairdresser, nor should she claim ability as a scalp specialist until she has been trained thoroughly and honestly for the work.

Shampooing can be mastered through prac-