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planning a future of self-support a girl will do well to choose a trade or profession which is as yet uncrowded. She will avoid any field already filled to overflowing, all work to which other girls flock not by scores but by hundreds, thereby reducing not only the number of openings, but the standard of wages. She should not be content to study the various lines of work for women as they appear to-day, but as they will look a year, five years, ten years from now.

This is particularly true of the girl who plans to engage in educational or social work. Specialization and success are synonymous terms for the teacher or the philanthropic worker, but specialization in any study which may be discarded or abbreviated in public or private schools during the next five years is sheer waste of time.

Before taking any special course of training