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Laundry management, already successfully undertaken by women, 

 promises good professional opportunities. Both the centralized bakery 

 and the centralized laundry may be regarded as possible solutions for 

 some of the present-day rural problems. The right woman, well trained 

 in home economics, should find in either an excellent field for work. 



Fruit-canning as an industry is promising. Women capable of directing 

 large enterprises have already proved its possibilities. This industry has 

 also been begun in a modest way on certain farms. In many cases it 

 would afford at least as good an income as could be obtained by teaching. 



4. Inspectors. — Inspection of food and of markets is increasing and 

 women have already entered this field. 



5. Purchasing agents. — Expert buyers of fabrics, textiles, clothing, 

 and house-furnishings are already in demand. A course in home economics 

 should enable an alert woman to be successful in this field. 



6. Designing. — Artistic millinery, expert costuming, and costume- 

 designing should offer great possibilities to the artistic woman of practical 

 inclination. A knowledge of dressmaking and millinery should afford 

 many a girl an opportunity to remain in the country and at the same 

 time to earn money. 



7. Research work. — The laboratory affords a growing field for the 

 scientific woman desiring neither to teach nor to be thrown where executive 

 ability has commercial value. 



8. Care of children. — Expert care of children is in demand. The realiza- 

 tion is growing that an untrained person is not competent to care for a 

 child. The future must see women cultured and refined, versed in the 

 psychology of childhood, and understanding the physical needs of the 

 child, in positions of trust and responsibility. 



0. Modern philanthropy. — In no other field than this is there greater 

 need of scientific knowledge and of tact in applying such knowledge. 

 The woman who is able to combine the two qualifications will be invaluable 

 in philanthropic work. 



10. Care of the individual home. — Last, but not least, is the profes- 

 sion of home-making. It is no longer sufficient for the woman who is 

 to assume the responsibility of a household to know something of every- 

 thing save the problems over which she is to spend a good part of her life. 

 A knowledge of nutrition, of sanitation, of the care of the child, may not 

 increase her wage-earning capacity in the home where she is wife and 

 mother; but the welfare of the family, the benefits of their increased 

 efficiency, are worthy of her best effort. 



