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 skirt and waist or the use of unsightly safety-pins. Have an ample supply of perfectly plain white petticoats with simple hems or a few tucks but not a scrap of lace upon them. Do not waste your money on fancy neckwear. It is unprofessional. Have plenty of plain linen stocks or collars, and white ties plainly hemmed, with cuffs to match, and quantities of large white nursing aprons. Your shoes should be soft and easy. You will be told what quantity and sort of underwear will be needed. Everything must be clearly marked with your name.

Once more—your success as a probationer will depend largely on your neatness. A probationer is allowed a limited amount of laundry work. Do not depend solely upon this, but take with you enough money to pay for extra laundry. One nurse who made an unusual record as a probationer says she owed her success to a laundry bill of ten dollars a month.

Some girls manage to go through the entire course without receiving any money from home, but this means rigid self-denial, as the salary paid by the school is intended to meet only your expenses in the way of supplies needed for your tuition, books, uniforms, washing, etc. And every probationer should take with her the amount of her railroad fare home. The superintendent of the training-school assumes absolutely no responsibility for your future.