children and to sympathize with them.

Other openings for librarians are in scientific schools, medical schools,
and in some law firms and business houses where the keeping and filing
of documents are of special importance. Librarians in such positions are
on their own responsibility and sometimes do important reference and
bibliographical work. Civic and engineering libraries, municipal libraries,
libraries on music, architecture and art, the cataloguing of prints and
pictures, special work in bibliography and indexing, offer in a few cities
opportunities to trained and gifted librarians.

Salaries of from six to eight hundred are not uncommon for library
assistants who have training or experience. In a number of positions the
library may be open during limited hours, or on certain days only. But when
all a librarian's time is required an effort is made to pay a salary which
will ensure for the librarian a reasonable standard of comfort. The better
paid positions have salaries of eight or nine hundred up to twelve,
thirteen or fourteen hundred for women librarians in charge of branch
libraries, heads of important departments, and chief librarians.

A woman's work in a library offers opportunities for service and
self-improvement. The profession is fairly well paid. It requires
careful training and constant study. Enthusiasm, ability and initiative
may make the librarian one of the most useful and influential citizens
in the community.

CHAPTER XVII

WORK FOR THE GIRL AT HOME

We have been referring so far to girls who are earning a living in paid
employment, working usefully and happily in almost all the occupations
which make up the gigantic output of national activity. Many thousands
of girls at home are doing household work which is just as necessary
to national well-being.

Chapter Eighteen on The Home Employments, which follows this chapter on
Work for the Girl at Home, is intended to state more fully the importance
of the occupation of home making. The present chapter is planned to suggest
lines of remunerative work for girls who are helping in home making, but
who require spending money and a healthy, active interest in life and
people outside the home.

Every girl who is helping to make a home may be certain that she is one of
the world's necessary workers. The home people are dependent on her more
directly and to a far greater extent than the work of the office or factory
is dependent on the