ity in which she is living.

The salary of the teacher varies according to the community in which she
lives and the grade of teaching in which she is occupied. It may be taken
as a general rule that teachers do not become wealthy. They are not highly
paid, considering the time spent in preparing to teach and the quality of
their work. Their salaries, however, almost invariably ensure them a fair
average of comfort in food, clothing, and shelter, an opportunity to save,
to continue their studies, to travel a little, and to enjoy their holidays,
which are longer than the holidays of the average worker. A teacher's
holidays are necessary for mental and nervous recuperation and should
include some study and improvement in aims and methods of work. The rewards
of the profession are not in money and leisure merely. Teachers have the
respect and affection of the community to a degree enjoyed by few other
workers.

If a girl begins to teach in the schools of a city, she will enter a
thoroughly systematized and complex organization. In the city the teacher's
salary is increased automatically year by year if her work is satisfactory.
In towns and villages salaries are lower, but living expenses are lower
also. In partly settled districts and districts where there is as yet
little appreciation of the value of good teaching, salaries are low.
Maximum salaries for women who have taught for a number of years in the
public schools and have unusual ability as teachers may be as high as nine
hundred or one thousand dollars. These women teachers, with their ability,
would probably make more money in other occupations, but their work would
hardly be of the same service to the community, nor would they have the
same feeling of satisfaction in doing it. The salaries of women in high
schools and collegiate institutes vary from seven or eight hundred dollars
to eighteen hundred, two thousand, or twenty-four hundred. Women who are
lecturers and professors in colleges and universities are paid amounts
similar to the higher salaries in collegiate institutes.

The average salaries of women teachers in the public schools of Ontario
for 1917 were as follows: Cities, $795; towns, $628; incorporated
villages, $573; rural schools, $580.

Besides the ordinary teaching of the class-room, girls may be attracted to
the teaching of special subjects. The girl who studies for kindergarten
work needs to have an active imagination, a sympathetic understandin