Intellectually she must be a student, and if she possess considerable initiative and originality in her study, so much the better.  She must not, however, become a student of mathematics or history or languages to the exclusion of the more absorbing study of her pupils, nor even to so great a degree as she studies them.  The true teacher represents a high type of social worker.  Many girls enter upon the work of teaching badly handicapped by the lack of some of these essential qualities and are in consequence never able to rise to real understanding and accomplishment of their work.

Teaching in these days is a broad vocation, covering many different lines of work; probably no occupation for girls is so well known with both its conditions and rewards as this.  In general, more girls than are by nature fitted for the work stand ready to undertake it.  There is nevertheless difficulty for school officials in finding real teachers enough to fill their positions.  For the right girl, teaching has much to offer.

Library work.  The librarian in these modern days is a most important public servant, and many openings in library work are to be found.  The services to be performed range from purely routine work to a very high type of constructive service for the community.  In the small libraries an “all-round” type of worker is required.  In the larger ones specialties may be followed.  In these larger libraries there are to be found permanent places for the routine workers.  In smaller ones each worker should be in line for even the highest type of constructive work.

The routine worker in the library is merely an office worker, and the same girl who would do well at the mechanical tasks of an office will do well here.  The real librarian is of a different sort.  She must have the neatness, precision, and accuracy of the office worker, to be sure; but to these she must add a broad conception of the place of the library in the community, and must display initiative and originality in bringing it to occupy that place.  She must know books; she must know people.  She must be in touch with current history, and be alert to place library material bearing upon it at the disposal of the people.  She must have quick sympathies, tact, the teaching spirit (carefully concealed), and much administrative ability.  And she must be trained for her work.

[Illustration:  Photograph by Brown Bros.  A well-equipped library.  The successful librarian must be scientifically trained for her work]

Nursing.  The nurse is in many ways like the teacher, and the girl who has the right temperament for successful teaching will usually make a successful nurse, temperamentally considered.  Her mental traits, or perhaps more exactly her habits of thought, may be somewhat different.  The teacher must be able to attend to many things; the nurse must be able to concentrate on one.  Originality and initiative are less to be desired, since the nurse is not usually