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 in city or country schools, or she may become matron of an institution, such as a home or orphanage or asylum or hospital; or she may teach domestic arts in settlement houses, Young Women's Christian Association classes, girls' friendly clubs, etc., or she may establish herself as a private teacher and demonstrator of cookery and dietetics, and travel from city to city, organizing classes. The domestic arts are on the verge of a revival, and rich and poor alike will come under the spell.

First—Domestic science for teachers.

Every first-class school of domestic science demands as the entrance qualification a high-school education or its equivalent. This means that it is practically useless for a girl who has never gone beyond the eighth grade to apply for entrance into a college where domestic science is taught as a special course. The course generally occupies two years, and the minimum cost of tuition is twenty-five dollars per term, three terms in a year, or $150 in all. During the first year the pupil studies elementary sewing, drawing and other manual arts, as well as various kitchen accomplishments, such as cookery, serving, laundry work, etc. At the end of the first year the student elects to specialize either on advanced domestic science alone or on advanced arts, such as dressmaking, millinery, basket-weaving, etc.