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 articles are always in demand; or if the worker has a particularly novel and fetching treatment of feminine foibles, she can secure a salary or space rates doing timely drawings for the daily papers, particularly the afternoon editions.

Another very profitable field for the illustrator who wants quick returns is catalogue work, illustrating the catalogues put out by high-grade manufacturers or wholesalers, Any girl who secures practical training along these cash-return lines will be laying up money and securing experience against the day when she feels artistically strong enough to branch out as an illustrator of stories and books. And furthermore, she may avoid many months spent in treading the valley of humiliation if she will do this more practical and yet artistic work, before storming the portals of big publishing houses.

The girl who selects decorative and applied design seldom secures a salaried position, for by the time she has completed this course she realizes that a design which is worth anything at all will bring a better figure as an individual creation than if she is employed on salary. Still there are manufacturing plants which employ artists on salary, and the girl who prefers a small but sure income will seek such work, ranging from fifteen to twenty-five dollars a week.

All the leading manufacturers of hand-made jewelry or specially designed objects of art,