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 crease with the term of service. Supervisors and teachers for training-schools command higher salaries, and the offices often go begging for lack of competent applicants.

It is impossible to name salaries in private institutions, as these vary according to the standing and prosperity of the school and the experience and capabilities of the applicant. In addition to private and public schools, free kindergarten associations and private charities afford openings. These relieve the congested condition in the public schools and aim to help the child who must be clothed and fed as well as taught. The summer vacation schools in large cities offer opportunities for special work to ambitious teachers, and a bright girl at a fashionable summer resort can easily form her own vacation classes among juvenile guests, and by working in the morning earn enough to pay her entire summer's expenses at the hotel.

Kindergartening is a profession, but mere knowledge of its philosophy, theory and practice will not make for success. Often the girl who might be described as a born kindergartner is outstripped by a girl who has less grounding in the philosophy but a better developed business instinct. Of all branches of pedagogy, probably kindergartening offers the surest avenue to economic independence, for it takes less capital to start a kindergarten than a full