Practice
Apparatus (light and heavy).
Athletics.
Delsarte.
Calisthenics.
Swedish Gymnastics.
Anthropometry.
Voice Culture.
Fencing.
Esthetic Gymnastics.
Games.
The average pupil allows ten dollars a week for board, laundry and incidental expenses, in addition to the three hundred dollars tuition. Girls often ask whether they can earn at least part of their training, and the head of one of the most successful training-schools tells me that a number of girls have paid their way by teaching outside classhours, the compensation being two dollars an hour. Naturally, it takes a bright, tactful, pleasing girl to secure this work.
Now as to securing positions after taking the course. The incidents related in preceding pages tell part of the tale, particularly for the girl who intends to form private classes. A position usually awaits the graduate of a normal course or school of high standing, as the number of cities introducing physical training in the public schools increases each year, and it will be some years before the supply equals the demand.
The girl who wishes to teach in private schools usually secures work through a teach-
