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 blots, or, worse still, greasy thumb-marks. It will announce to the trained eye of that superintendent that you are not neat. And untidiness, as I said before, is a heinous offense.

Now, we will take up your career at your moment of acceptance as a probationer. Your name is placed on the waiting-list, and there it stays until a vacancy occurs, when you will be summoned and must report at once. In the meantime get everything in readiness. When you are notified that you have been accepted as a probationer you will receive a list of the clothing to bring with you. This varies in different hospitals, therefore I cannot give explicit directions. All this clothing you must provide and pay for. The training-school provides nothing until you have passed the period of probation and have entered upon your long term of service to the institution, when you will be paid a small salary with which to purchase uniforms, or, the uniform will be furnished. This much I will say: Show good judgment in the selection of your clothing. Have plenty of simple things rather than a few that are ornately trimmed. If you expected to wear a uniform of chambray or gingham or zephyr cloth in the familiar gray-blue and white stripe, have these simple dresses fitted carefully to give you the appearance of trimness, and have the waist and skirt joined by a narrow band to avoid the separation of