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 as a teacher or social worker, study the tendencies of the schools or charities in that State where you expect to find employment. The newer educational movement is toward a readjustment of the curriculum to meet the peculiar needs of the twentieth-century child. Those who lead the movement maintain that we have been teaching the child how to study, but not how to live. We have been giving him the right for studying books, but the wrong methods of meeting life's stern problems. Educational prophets predict that during the next five years courses of study will fall like so many card-houses, and from the ruins will rise a beautiful new structure of practical schoolroom work in which hands and bodies, as well as minds, will be trained.

One result of the new eductional movement is a general awakening to the importance of introducing the domestic arts into public and private schools. Dressmaking, millinery, cookery, laundry work, general housekeeping and the eare of children and the sick will soon become features of every course in both city and rural schools. Whether it is true or not that the modern mother no longer trains her daughter in the domestic arts and that the girl must be taught home-making in the schoolroom or not at all, is a question quite apart from this chapter, but the fact remains that any girl who has