rained
nurse, as it is not on a level with the profession of trained nursing.
A children's nurse with hospital training will receive twenty or
twenty-five dollars a month; in some instances such a nurse is paid
higher wages.

CHAPTER X

DRESSMAKERS AND SEAMSTRESSES

The head of a dressmaking department in a large store in a city, when
asked how she prepared herself for her position, told this story. "I never
took any lessons; but I had always made my own dresses and my sisters'.
I remember walking down the street of the little town where I lived, one
day after my father died, and as I passed the door of the best dressmaking
shop in the town, it occurred to me that the man in charge of the store
had often said that he would gladly pay me good wages if I would work for
him. I made up my mind while passing his shop that day that I would not
work for him, but that I would open a dressmaking establishment of my own.
I did so, and it succeeded from the first. After a few years I thought I
should like to move to the city. I applied for the position here and was
appointed."

A second instance shows how a girl may have ability which she has not at
first understood how to use. In this case the girl was anxious to enter
another occupation. She wished to be a painter and had studied for some
years both in Canada and abroad. Needing to earn some money, she found
that she could sell dress designs to a manufacturing establishment, but
there was not a large demand for such work in the city where she lived.
Accordingly, she and another girl, also an artist, took a studio in a city
which was a centre of fashions, and together they worked on dress designs
for exclusive shops. They both had some money saved, and one of the girls
had a small, regular income. The first girl proved to have a very rare
sense of colour and design. It is now her work to make colour combinations
and provide the ideas for original designs, while the second girl, who is
a good draughtsman, executes the coloured drawings. These girls are now
recognized as two of the best costume designers in the city where they are
working.

It is apparent, then, that the girl with good eyesight, clever hands, and
a fine sense of colour and form, is likely to be a success as a dressmaker.
But how is she best to prepare herself for her chosen occupation? She
should practise sewing, either by hand or machine. She should cultivate
steady application to such work, and she