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 who accepts them secures only a smattering of kindergarten methods and never gets to the root of Froebel philosophy.

"What will the training at a representative school cost me?" inquire many girls.

At one of the endowed institutions in the East, of whose graduates ninety-seven per cent. have secured positions, the charges are twenty-five dollars per term, three terms in the year, which means an outlay of seventy-five dollars per year for tuition. As the course runs two years, one hundred and fifty dollars, plus a small sum for personal supplies, will cover the actual expenses of tuition. Pupils at this school are furnished with lists of boarding-houses, where they can secure room and board as low as four dollars and fifty cents a week. At this rate a girl's living expenses, including laundry, will run about three hundred and fifty dollars for two years. A very strong girl can reduce expenses by working in a family night and morning for her board, but it is better to concentrate strength and interest on your training. The average training-school has a daily session, except Saturdays and Sundays, from nine in the morning to three in the afternoon, with much field work, visiting kindergartens and teaching or substituting in charity kindergartens.

The girl who has no money for her training