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 month, in addition to being furnished with a nice private room and excellent board, and she is permitted to teach a private class outside the orphanage one afternoon in the week. A teacher of cooking, serving and domestic science in its elementary form in one of the model schools receives fifty dollars per month, while the supervising teacher of domestic arts, including many, forms of manual training for boys and girls, is paid $1,200 per year.

Positions as teachers of domestic science presuppose city life, and the country girl who has decided to take this course must realize that any position offered to her on graduation will entail her remaining in the city.

While not mentioned in the catalogue of any college, university or institute, the study of domestic science includes the development of the business instinct. Long before a student receives her diploma she realizes that she requires something beside mere knowledge to advance in her profession. She must have "push" if she will secure a desirable position and rise to the post of supervisor.

The private teacher of domestic science must overcome the prejudice of old-fashioned parents and the indifference of society-absorbed young women before she can hope to organize her class. She must develop some novel scheme of