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 worker. If teaching appeals to her, if she has the natural pedagogical instinct, she will succeed either in a salaried position or as a private instructor. But if she is the sort of girl who demands practical results of her own hands, if her tastes are mechanical rather than theoretical, if she is happiest when working alone and watching the work come out from under her pencil, then she will secure the best results and find the surest avenue to contentment as a designer, illustrator or worker in arts and crafts. No girl should select a course of art until she has given this problem earnest consideration and has decided on the use to which she will put her knowledge. Much time and money can be saved by settling this question in advance, and selecting the most expeditious or practical course of training. To be sure, a change of mind and heart may come after the student begins to work at an art school, but as a rule a high-school graduate is able to decide whether she will find her greatest happiness and usefulness as a teacher or as a worker. The girl who "hates the schoolroom" and has no natural interest in children or power to attract them, will succeed much better as a worker along the more practical art lines than as an instructor in either public schools or private classes.

As the girl inexperienced in the business world knows little of art work which has a com-