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 Marcel wavers. Only about one girl in a thousand succeeds as a hair-worker and dresser, and she cannot really succeed and establish herself without serving an honest, sincere apprenticeship in a wig shop.

But to return to the house-to-house manicuring or shampooing, to which lines of work I hope most of the girls interested in the subject will turn their attention and their efforts, let us consider whether you are the sort of girl to succeed. You must be healthy, neat and tactful. You must be healthy because you are constantly giving forth vitality. Every woman who employs you leans upon you and asks for help. Yours must be the stronger nature. Particularly in the care of the hair and scalp, and massage, great demands are made upon your strength. A sickly or delicate looking girl does not inspire confidence in her customers. You must radiate strength, capability, confidence in yourself and your powers to remedy physical defects. The anemic girl cannot succeed. Her touch will be uncertain, trembling, and even dangerous in handling manicuring implements. The girl subject to headaches cannot succeed because her ailment deprives her of the nervous force needed to inspire confidence. The girl with catarrh or with an offensive breath cannot hold customers. Therefore, if you would be a beauty specialist start by setting your body in