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 ers' agency. Positions in institutional churches, settlements and among wealthy children or women who will join classes in light physical culture are secured entirely through acquaintance and influence.

The teacher who drops general work for physical culture, with a view to teaching in the public schools, particularly of a large city, confines her efforts to this one branch. The girl who expects to organize private classes or conduct classes in different private schools, settlements or institutional churches generally combines some other branch with physical culture, such as cooking, sewing or elocution. The latter is peculiarly suited for combination with physical culture, as the physical training gives grace to gestures, and a correct method of breathing is invaluable to the pupil in elocution; in fact, nearly every successful teacher of elocution includes in her class or private work simple gymnmastics, and Delsarte exercises. Just now dancing movements and steps play a large part in physical culture and elocution.

If, in addition to teaching the conventional elocution, she has the gift of story-telling, a girl can often secure engagements to entertain at parties.

Another line of work in which up-to-date elocution and physical culture teachers are scoring rather heavily this year is known as the general