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 fleeting." She thinks she must take indefinite time to study and gain inspiration, when steady, regular, concentrated work is far more important than what she terms a "gradual growth."

There was a time when students were urged not to draw fashions or enter the services of any syndicate which supplies cheap magazines with head and tail-pieces, fashions or pattern drawings and illustrations, but there has been a distinct change of sentiment on this question. The practical training received in the art rooms of such a syndicate and the education in the value of lines, light and shade, as seen in actual reproduction, are superior to that which can be secured in an art school where the work is never reproduced on either fast or slow presses. The few bad tricks or habits which a student may develop in the rush work of such a syndicate office are more than balanced by the practical results of seeing her work reproduced in newspaper or magazine.

Girls completing the course of illustration in a publishing or manufacturing center can find positions in publishing houses, as staff illustrators, particularly in fashions or pattern work, or making drawings for the advertising manager of department stores where illustrations are prepared for daily newspapers and periodicals, or in advertising agencies where catchy illustrations for exploiting proprietary