make fine accompanists and may devote themselves to this
branch of their art. In general, what has been said of the remuneration
in other arts applies to music. But the systematizing of the teaching of
music by institutions has a tendency to steady the income of the music
teacher. Training of the best kind is long and costly, but any other kind
is unsatisfactory.
In order to attain standing as a professional actress a young girl should
have special physical training, voice culture and a broad literary
education. She should know something of singing and dancing, and she should
learn how to walk well and how to speak correctly and impressively. Part of
this training may be obtained at schools of dramatic expression which are
often connected with conservatories of music. The people of the stage work
harder than the average trained or untrained worker. Their hours are longer
and they endure more discomforts. There are few spectacular successes, and
still fewer genuine reputations for genius in dramatic interpretation.
Seasonal unemployment is prevalent in this occupation. Salaries seem to be
large, but very few are large in reality. If we reckon the number of weeks
throughout the year during which payment is received, it appears that few
actresses earn a good income. A young woman of decided gifts may become an
individual entertainer.
Dancing has recently come more into favour as an occupation, regarded
both as giving physical training for health and as an art. The teaching
of art dancing is undertaken by some conservatories of music and also by
individual teachers.
All work of an artistic character requires an endowment of imagination,
sympathy, insight, and artistic ability. The artistic worker gives a great
deal, and does not enjoy or suffer temperately. It is impossible to do
good work unless the whole being is thrown into the effort. Unless the
artist possesses financial, as well as artistic, ability, the pecuniary
reward is likely to be uncertain. But the individual with decided gifts
rightly is dissatisfied in any other occupation.
CHAPTER XX
BANKING. LAW. MEDICINE. DENTISTRY. PHARMACY.
CHEMICAL INDUSTRY. CIVIL SERVICE. SOCIAL WORK
Among girls at work and at school are those whose mental capacity is
developed strongly. They enjoy thinking out problems. They analyze
situations, because they want to understand why some particular fact
happens to be true. These girls may be executive and practical, b
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