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 tice and the study of books on the care of the hair or a correspondence course. For such service customers pay from fifty cents to one dollar, according to the size of the city and the scale of prices that prevails.

The girl who has both manicuring and shampooing at her command will have plenty to do among her house-to-house customers. There is absolutely no need of further training, unless she aims in time to open a shop. Then she should save money until she can afford to study with an expert masseuse the art of massaging the face, the scalp and the body. The most successful and reliable workers insist that in this day and age it pays to be a specialist, especially for the house-to-house trade. The girl who is really an expert manicurist will soon have her engagement book full. The girl who masters shampooing should follow this up with scalp massage learned from a recognized specialist.

Hairdressing is a trade quite apart, and the girl wha would learn this should work first in a wig or hair-making shop, learning the composition of hair, the art of dyeing it and making it into pieces, such as puffs, transformations, switches, etc.; and finally the very beautiful art—of dressing the hair to suit the face. This trade cannot be learned superficially in a beauty shop among chattering girls. It is particularly the art or trade of a man, and men are the best