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 ecutive ability and push has her own business and is furnishing and decorating clubhouses, hotels and private homes.

Mere training in the best school of America will not turn out financially successful workers. It may develop an artistic, finished workwoman, but it cannot train her to make money. She must prove her business or economic worth by the manner in which she markets her wares.

The cost of such an art training varies. A girl can spend a thousand dollars a year for tuition, studio rent and living expenses while attending a New York art school, or she can study at Cooper Institute for a nominal figure, two hundred dollars a year covering her expenses, light-housekeeping, tuition and incidentals. Or she can work by day and study free at night schools.

The would-be art teacher must outline her course of study with infinite care, as the position she secures will depend not so much upon her ability, however important that may be, as upon her diploma and the name of the institution from which she graduates. Before selecting the course, let her decide upon the sort of position she expects to fill. If she intends to become a teacher in a fashionable private school or to rise to the post of teacher of art in the high school or supervisor of art in the city public schools, then she might as well decide at once