are allowed to use the title of
that series. It should be stated, however, that the chapters in the
present book are made up from new investigations, and that none of
them are reproductions of any of the articles in the series alluded
to.

G. J. M.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

INDUSTRIAL DESIGNING 1

SHORT-HAND WRITING 10

TELEGRAPHY 20

FEATHER CURLING 29

PHOTOGRAPHY 37

PROFESSIONAL NURSING 47

PROOF-READERS, COMPOSITORS, AND BOOKBINDERS 60

THE DRAMA.--LECTURERS AND READERS 73

BOOK-AGENTS 97

DRESS-MAKING--MILLINERY 109

TEACHING 116

BRIEF NOTES:
Market Gardening, Poultry-raising, Bee-keeping, House-keepers,
Cashiers, Button-hole Making, Floriculture, Authorship,
Type-writing, and Working in Brass 123

WORK FOR WOMEN.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGNING.

A great many women have, or think they have, a taste for art. They can
make a pretty sketch, or draw a landscape quite fairly, and so they
think they will "take up" art as a profession. And nearly all of them
fail of success. The trouble seems to be that they lack originality;
they are mere copyists, and too often very poor reproducers of the
things they copy.

One branch of art--that of industrial designing--offers golden
opportunities to make an excellent living in a pleasant way, but,
before deciding to enter it, a woman should be very sure indeed that
she has the necessary qualifications to pursue the study successfully;
otherwise her time will be wasted, and probably her heart will be so
discouraged that she will be sadly unfitted for any kind of work for
a long time to come.

It is _industrial_ art of which I am speaking. A few introductory
words may be necessary, for the benefit of some persons ignorant in
the matter, to show what women are doing, or rather successfully
attempting to do, in that line at the present time.

Industri