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 must simply find some way of earning it. She can become a mother's helper and test her patience with children. Perhaps this experience may cure her of any desire to teach even in a kindergarten. If she lives in a college town she can become a caterer in a small wey and prepare college "spreads," or have a pretty tearoom in her own home, where the college girls may drop in for tea, sweets and chat every afternoon. She can do fine laundry work for college girls, mending, anything which will allow her to lay aside each week a small sum toward the expenses of the coveted training.

Other girls inquire: "If I do take a course of training, how do I know that I can secure a position?"

By the time you have spent two years in a training-school you will know where and how to secure a position. That is one fruit of the training. Furthermore, promising teachers from good schools are in demand. Authorities in the work say that for the next twenty-five years kindergartening will be a profitable field, because it will not be overcrowded.

"What salaries are paid kindergartners?" ask other girls.

In Greater New York the minimum salary paid kindergartners in the public schools is six hundred dollars. The maximum salary is twelve hundred and forty dollars. Salaries in-