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 domestic instincts and the time to specialize as a teacher or a social worker, will make no mistake in taking a course in domestic science or the domestic arts.

Such workers are now in very serious demand and will be until the oncoming army of teachers realizes the importance of substituting such practical branches for the old classical or academic branches. Graduates from schools of domestic science or the domestic arts have no trouble in securing positions to-day. In fact, the position seeks the graduate if she has made any sort of record in the training-school. Boards of education all over the country and principals of private schools are looking for earnest teachers and supervisors, and one great mid-West city has announced that it will pay three thousand a year to the right woman for the post of supervisor of domestic arts in its public schools.

Ten years from now domestic science may be an overcrowded field. To-day it is practically uncultivated and offers many opportunities to the woman who takes special training along that line.

The graduate from a training-school for teachers like Teachers College, connected with Columbia University, New York, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, or Simmons College, Boston, is eligible for the position of teacher or supervisor