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allowance of time for practice. No just and affec- 

 tionate parents can deny their young daughter any 

 fewer advantages than these, if the means for secur- 

 ing them can at all be acquired. 



THE REWARD WILL COME IN TIME 



The lessons in painting or fine needlework may be 

 provided for in the same way. If the expense seems 

 heavy, the far-sighted parents will think of their 

 declining days of the future and imagine the large 

 return the daughter may render them through the 

 skill which they have been instrumental in develop- 

 ing in her. 



But without waiting for old age to overtake them 

 the father and mother of the girl artist may derive 

 some benefits from her work. She may furnish the 

 table service with hand-painted chinaware or adorn 

 the walls of the home with attractive paintings. And 

 also, as heretofore indicated, the daughter may her- 

 self in time conduct a class of amateur students of the 

 fine art in which she has made preparation. 



One word of precaution must be offered in refer- 

 ence to the training here considered. In the usual 

 case the girl is not started young enough. Her 

 advancement in the music, for example, is likely to be 

 much more rapid and her skill much more marked, 

 if the age nine to eleven, rather than five or six 

 years later, be chosen as the beginning time. The 

 author has witnessed many pathetic instances of 



