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 Those who elect domestic art must have shown during the first year more than ordinary artistic ability and hand skill, and they are prepared upon graduation to teach elementary and advanced handwork, sewing, dressmaking, millinery, embroidery and elementary cookery.

Those who elect domestic science are prepared to teach cookery, dietetics, marketing, serving, household accounts, household economics, including cleaning, laundry work and hygiene and sanitation for the elementary, grammar and high, public and private schools, colleges and technical schools, including training-schools for nurses; to be dietitians, supervising institutional housekeepers and caterers; instructors in elementary domestic art (handwork, including braiding, knotting, netting, crocheting, knitting, weaving, caning, basketry, hand and machine sewing, drafting and household furnishing) for the elementary and grammar, public and private schools, and wherever else elementary domestic art is taught.

To the uninitiated it would seem as if very little difference existed between the two courses, but in reality the domestic-science course appeals most strongly to the practical girl; domestic arts to the artistic or theoretical mind.

Salaries for this work vary. At an orphan asylum in New York City a teacher of domestic science or cookery receives thirty dollars per