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 employed to train the children of the public schools in physical culture. In the primary schools these teachers draw from eight hundred dollars to fifteen hundred dollars, and in the high-school grades from fifteen hundred dollars to three thousand dollars a year. In New York City the private schools were pioneers in this work, until what was considered as the privilege of the rich child was recognized as a necessity for the masses of children who had to be taught the use and care of the body as well as the mind.

Private teaching in New York is also lucrative. It is estimated that there are twenty-one hundred classes all told under the direction of fifteen hundred teachers, men as well as women. These classes are conducted at private schools and in gymnasiums, including the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. rooms and the settlements and parish houses of institutional churches. Presumably each of these fifteen hundred teachers makes a comfortable living, whether by teaching physical culture alone or by combining other special branches with it. Also the same teacher conducts classes in different schools, clubs or settlements, arranging a schedule of hours.

In order to teach physical culture in the public schools of New York City you must have had three years' experience as a teacher before you can take the entrance examinations. The ob-