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 not to have to remain on salary—she can have a school of her own.

First, what are the requirements for admission to a recognized training-school for kindergartners?

A high-school education or its equivalent at a private institution.

Second, what is required of an applicant for a position in the public kindergartens of large cities?

A two-year course at some representative training-school for kindergartners.

The would-be kindergartner must have a knowledge of music; both instrumental and vocal are desirable. She must have at her finger-tips a practical knowledge of botany, art, geography, mathematics and general literature. She must be of good character, even-tempered and self-controlled, neat in appearance, amendable to the red tape and the regulations of public-school systems, and she must possess above all things that indescribable gift, the power to attract, often called personal magnetism, and to inspire confidence in children.

The hysterical girl will never succeed as a kindergartner. The untidy girl has no place in this wonderful garden of children. The girl who looks beyond the month's work to salary day, and this to the exclusion of everything else, will not last in the kindergarten field.