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 town, but they will not appeal to the buyer for an art stationery store a thousand or two thousand miles away.

The young woman with mediocre talent—and she will soon find her level if she goes to a large city and competes with original workers—will do best in her own town, organizing classes for young girls who want to paint Christmas and birthday gifts, holding Easter and Christmas sales, making up souvenirs for tourists, and creating a demand among local social leaders for hand-painted prizes and favors. If she can build up a reputation for introducing into her community the latest fads of metropolitan society, she will soon have an established home trade and a certain income which she can never secure by dealing with city merchants or exchanges, through the mails.