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 ject of this rule is to maintain as high a standard for the teacher of physical culture as for any other branch of study. To secure positions in many of the private schools you must have a college education, precisely as would be required of a teacher of Latin, Greek or algebra. In other words, your education must be broad and liberal enough to entitle you to consideration for any branch of high-school or private school teaching. You cannot gloss over the defects of a grade-school education by an expensive course in physical culture. If you live in a community where your certificate must be renewed at stated intervals for general teaching, the certificate will be demanded if you try to teach physical culture. This explanation is offered for the benefit of the many girls who think that an abbreviated and defective education will be overlooked because they have taken a special course in physical culture.

In Philadelphia physical training is part of the normal course for girls, and is taught in all the public schools. In that city preference is given to graduates from the normal college. Chicago, Boston, in fact all the leading cities, have made physical training part of their public-school system, and all progressive small cities are following suit. A prominent teacher of physical culture states that he has requests from small cities the country over for teachers