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 who realize that they must either turn this gift to practical financial account or look to other avenues of money-making. Nor is there any reason why a girl, who can afford a few years of hard work in a good school, should hesitate—to develop her one talent along artistic lines. "The practical worker in any line of artistic endeavor can find a market for her wares or a salaried position, but she must not fail to place due emphasis on that little word "practical." The man who stands ready to pay for artistic products wants his art-workers to be as business-like as his stenographers or salesmen. The day of the lackadaisical maiden with unkempt locks, bedraggled skirts and dreamy eyes staring into the blue heavens for an inspiration, are past, so far as the publishing and manufacturing world is concerned. While such a girl waits for an inspiration, a practical worker with perhaps less artistic ideals, but a keener appreciation of her employer's needs and the importance of punctuality, secures all the orders.

In other words, the girl who imagines that she can put her artistic talent to account must start out aright, with a perfect understanding of the business-like atmosphere in which she will work. She will have to work regularly, not spasmodically. She will have to deliver her product on time—or have the order canceled. And she will have to deliver the sort of work