educated women to whom a life at sea makes a strong appeal, as to the possibility of finding work on board the boats of the big steamship companies, and an exhaustive investigation has recently been made in order to discover whether any real opening exists in this connection.

The results are in a great measure, disappointing, the market being a restricted one. The agent of a well-known Liverpool firm, whilst enumerating the capacities in which they employ women -conductresses, nurses, stewardesses, stenographers shop assistants, hairdresses, manicurists and chiropodists, matrons and laundresses-adds that "articles have appeared from time to time respecting the employment of women on ships, which have always resulted in the increase of applications which, unfortunately, we are unable to consider, as at present we have a heavy waiting list.

On a great many routes the only employment offered is to stewardesses, who are expected to be of a fairly good class and fully trained and certificated nurses are increasingy asked for in this capacity.

country, often the remedy is not clear and the funds too low for experiment, SO that it remains for some socially minded teacher of vision to demonstrate the value of her service and win her

spurs as dean. Many of the new high school deans have been appointed from the ranks and come every summer for help with their new task. In some parts of the country, however, appointment bureaus have frequent calls for deans, and more and more junior high schools also are employing a dean or official adviser to take care of student personnel work and the social program.-NewsBulletin.

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION FOR
WOMEN AND GIRLS

The Federal Board for Vocational Education co-operates with the States through its Agricultural Education Service, its Trade and Industrial Education Service, and its Commercial Education Service in the training of girls and men for

wage-earning pursuits, and through its Home Economics Education Service in the training of girls and in home-making pursuits. By the provisions of the law, however, small funds are available for the latter purpose, the allotment being only oneifth of the entire trade and industrial fund.

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For all these posts, however, the supply is far in excess of the demand, and the shipping offices say that they are besieged by applicants, while in offices of the companies themselves there are very few openings, most of them being almost entirely staffed by men, though it is interesting to note that there is at least one woman shipping agent in London, who has built up her own business and is now in charge of the emigration department of various lines.

DEAN OF GIRLS

As an opportunity for administrative work in the school the field of the dean of girls is at present the one most accessible to women. The demand for men in other administrative posts makes it difficult for even a trained woman to find placement, so that able women looking for advancement are finding in the dean's task a challenge to their ability. On the other hand, the social qualifications called for in the dean tend to eliminate those who have only managerial ability to recommend them. far the market demand for this type of service is somewhat limited, for, while the need for more satisfactory social adjustment is felt in every school in the

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Of Federal funds to be expended for training in the various vocational pursuits-agriculture, trade and industry, and home-making-if the total appropriation is considered to be a circle of 360 degrees, the amount spent for each purpose would occupy segments of the following size : Agriculture 180 degrees (if spent at all, must be spent for that purpose); Trade and Industry-144 degrees (if spent at all, must be spent for that purpose); and Home-making36 degrees (if spent at all, may be spent for either trade and industry or homemaking).

It will be seen from this that there is practically no provision for funds in the Federal law to train girls and women for home-making, but if the States so desire they may use one-fifth of the amount for trade and industry for this purpose.

Every State in the United States has accepted the provisions of the Vocational Education Law, and is using funds for the above types of education. These funds are expended in the day schools, part-time schools, and evening schools, and for the trainng of vocational teachers. In 1923, there was expended $1,638,086.08 of Federal funds for training a total of 71,298 persons in agriculture, of whom 3398 were girls and women. There was also expended $1,345,911.72 of Federal funds for training a total of 325,889 persons in trade and industrial pursuits, of whom 110,697 were girls and women. In contrast to these large expenditures for wage-earn

ing, there was expended $285,968.57 of Federal funds for training a total of 139,330 giris and women in the vocation of home-making.

It is easily seen that this very important vocation, of which every girl and woman is potentially a member, is not receiving the proportion of Federal funds it merits from point of numbers entering the vocation and the importance of its output, to national life.

VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE

Several movements for the promotion and improvement of vocational guidance are largely the work of women, or have been vastly aided by them. Guid

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into suitable educational opportunities and into employment that will not prove a "blind alley job" for children leaving public school is a part of the program of the National Vocational Guidance Association, to which outstanding women psychologists, employment experts, and educators are contributing their valuable experience. Vocational guidance for business and professional women has been carried on for a number of years by the collegiate bureaus of occupations established with local support in some thirteen cities by the American Association of University Women or similar groups of professional women. These bureaus are federated in the National Committee of Bureaus of Occupations and meet annually in the interests of improved service. Their Vocational guidance work is based upon their experience in placing trained women in positions and on the results of their local job studies. One bureau in the group has become a national organization and is the only one devoted exclusively to carrying on occupational research for women. It is the Bureau of Vocational Information, 2 West 43rd Street, New York City, and it is supported by members' fees and grants from educational foundations for its research studies. Director, Emma P. Hirth: Assistant Director, Beatrice Doerschuk;- Board of Managers; Mrs. Wendell T. Bush, President, Mrs. Percy Jackson, Eugenia Wallace, Edith E. Rand, Mrs. Frederick H. Cone, Mrs. James M. Hills, Mrs. Leonard Kebler, and Emma L. MacAlarney.

(See also Southern Woman's Educational Alliance.

AFTER COLLEGE WHAT? Where does the girl who has an A. B. or B. S. degree find herself after five years out in the world? Has college helped her fill a useful and satisfactory place?

To have facts to answer these questions the Collegiate Bureau of Occupations in Denver sent out last autumn a questionnaire to the women graduates of the class of 1919 of five colleges in the state, three offering the liberal arts course (Colorado College, University of

Colorado, and University of Denver), and two technical colleges (Colorado Agricultural College, offering the home economics course, and Colorado Teachers' College).

In this state-wide survey, the classes of 1919 were found to have 225 women graduates. Of the questionnaires sent to these women, 184 were returned.

The graduates from one school are living in eleven states and two foreign countries; over half of those from another school live outside of Colorado.

The highest single salaries reported for each college represented the following fields: $2600, teaching; $2400, statistical work; $6000, journalism; $3000, research, $5000, advertisng. The sixtythree graduates who are earning $180) or more are distributed among the nineteen occupations.

COLLEGE WOMEN IN RETAIL

STORES

The Retail Trade Board of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, in cooperation with the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, has made a study to determine, if possible, whether retail stores have been successful with college women, what are the opportunities for college women in stores, and how best to attract such women. One thousand and five questionnaires were distributed to stores in New England and a few leading stores in other parts of the country; seventy-six replies were ceived, which represent employers of one hundred and twenty-six college women; the largest number in one store is thirty-two.

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The previous experience of these employees includes teaching, social service work, store work, accounting and personnel work. Their average age at the time of employment is twenty-five years. Their salaries range from eight dollars a week to eight thousand dollars year. The positions they have held include the following branches of the work: Sales, floor managing, adjustment office, supervisor of junior help. assisting store superintendent, assisting store manager, personal service, employment department, comparison office, credit department, advertising, modeling, guide service, want and promise department, tube room, restaurant, training department, clinic, employees' association, welfare work, research, mail-order department, buying, stock control.

The following departments are those in which college women are more frequently preferred over non-college women advertising. personnel, research laboratory, adjustment, statistical, buying.

Evidence as to special interests manifested by college women in store work shows that they are partial to finance, merchandise, personnel, control, search, promotion and management, with most emphasis on personnel.

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woman which were noted as assets or handicaps were the following: she is ac cused of lack of tact, superiority of attitude, unwillingness to work up from the bottom, impatience with the ignorance of others, eagerness to take places where the largest immediate salary is to be had. On the other hand, she is encouraged for her organizing ability, her ability to learn quickly, and her executive qualities; she is said also to have resourcefulness, to be able to work well with others, to have more training hence more vision, saner attitude, to be

less temperamental, to have quicker grasp of the possibilities of the job, and, by some, to have originality and judg ment and to be able to think quickly.

Among conclusions reached by the committee which made this study are the following: "In general we find that while the employment of women college graduates is still so new a thing that merchants dislike to make general statements as to their success, there are many stores now trying to experiment and we feel that it is a safe prophecy that more cannot fail to do so as time goes on."-News Bulletin.

A most important step toward the co-ordination of all kinds of physical activities for girls and women has been made by the National Amateur Athletic Federation. As the result of a conference called by Mrs. Herbert Hoover, the only woman vice president of the Federation, which was held in Washington, D. C. early in April, a Women's Division of the Federation has been formed, with the purpose of inaugurating a nation-wide movement for the developing of the health, fitness, and morale of every woman and girl in America. It is a spe

cial organization of women to stand as a deliberating, investigating, legislating, promoting, advising and finally controlling body on special problems of athletics for women and girls.

Further data of this organization may be obtained from The Amateur Athletic Union, 305 Broadway, New York City. This association assumes control of women's public track and swimming meetings and publishes official figures of championships and records. Mrs. Anna Paton, president of the Morningside Girls' Club, is its official handicapper. There is also a National Collegiate and Scholastic Track Association, with headquarters at Mamaroneck. New York, of which Miss Suzanne Becker is secretary.

TENNIS

The Woman's Lawn Tennis Championship of the U. S.

The 38th Lawn Tennis Tournament for the Championship of the U. S. in Women's singles and doubles was held under the auspices of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, at the West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, L. I., beginning Monday, August 17, 1925.

64 Players out of about 70 entrants were selected, offering the greatest field that ever competed for the women's national championship. Six American players were seeded as follows: Miss Helen Wills. Miss Elizabeth Ryan, Mrs. Molla B. Mallory, Miss Eleanor Goss, Miss Mary K. Browne and Mrs. Marion

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Z. Jessup. The five visiting English women who played in the International Team Match, prior to the National Championships, were also seeded follows: Miss Kathleen McKane, Miss Joan Fry, Mrs. Lambert Chambers, Miss Evelyn Colyer and Miss E. H. Harvey. Finals:

Helen Wills, Champion: In the semifinals, Helen Wills defeated Eleanor Goss, meeting Kathleen McKane, of England in the finals. She won over Miss McKane by scores of 3-6, 6-0, 6-2. and by so doing, retained for herself and for America the National Championship trophy.

GLIMPSES OF THE STARS

The following are brief sketches of Women Stars who sought National Net Title :

Miss Helen Wills, from tennis obscurity to supremacy in two years, and nineteen years old. In 1923 Miss Wills dethroned Molla Mallory, six times national champion, not only retained her title the following year, but added to her laurels the Olympic championship. Born in California, October 6, 1905, she learned the game of tennis at a comparatively youthful age-eleven or twelve years and the tremendous power in her stroke and steady force of her game are directly attributable to the fact that she has consistently practiced with the strongest men players on the Coast.

Miss Mary K. Browne, born in California and learning the game there, she entered championship play in 1912 by winning the national singles title, which she held for the next two years; re-entered championship play in 1921, and reached he final round, losing to Mrs. Mallory after three sets. Miss Browne is the ranking No. 2 player of the United States in tennis, the ladies golf champion of Southern California and was runner-up for the national golf championship in 1924.

Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, six times national champion and now ranking No. 3 player of the United States. Born in Norway, where she learned the

Miss Eleanor Goss won the collegiate championship at Wellesley. Has since played extensively both here and abroad and has ranked in the first ten of the United States for six years. Her brilliant flashes place her in the ranks of championship play, for she has met and defeated in tournament play Miss Helen Wills, Miss Kathleen McKane, Mrs. Molla Mallory and cently Miss Mary K. Browne.

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Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup, an Eastern player who has distinguished herself in both singles and doubles play, being four times national doubles champion and twice the runner-up in national singles. She holds the coVered court singles championship for 1924, and played in the final doubles match of the Olympic games.

Miss Elizabeth Ryan, Californian by birth, she later developed her game, during her twelve years of residence abroad. Miss Ryan has won more trophies and tournaments abroad in one year than any other single player and is now considered second only to Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen, with whom she has partnered in all women's doubles play for several years.

Mrs. May Sutton Bundy, winning Southern California championship in 1900, and national championship in 1904. She won the ladies' championship at Wimbledon, in 1905 and 1907, besides numerous other tournament titles while she was abroad. Since her recent come-back to tennis she has met and defeated Mrs. Molla Mallory twice and Miss Mary Browne once.

Miss Charlotte Hosmer, one of California's youthful players, already holding the Pacific Coast singles and mixed doubles title and the California State doubles. Miss

Marion Williams, five times champion of Southern California and recently doubles partner of May Sutton Bundy in the Santa Barbara championship.

Miss Martha Bayard, one of the promising younger players of the United States. Born in 1902 in New Jersey. Miss Bayard has been playing tennis since she was twelve years old, winning in 1921 the indoor junior national title. She has ranked in the first ten of the United States for the last three years.

Mrs. Lillian Scharman Hester, born in Brooklyn in 1901, learning her tennis in the East. member of American Olympic team. 1924. and ranked No. 4 in the United States in 1923.

Miss G. Gallery, Canadian player with an extensive record of play in Quebec

and Ontario championships.

Mrs. Lambert Chambers, Captain of the visting British team, with the enviable record of more international events and championships to her credit than any other woman player. In 1903 she won the English championship, holding it seven times in all. In 1919 she played the challenge round opposite Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen and was twice within a point of victory.

Miss Kathleen M'Kane, England's star player and the only member of the visting British team who has ever played in this country before, holds the Wimbledon title for singles play in 1924 and sharing the doubles championship of the United States in 1923.

Miss Joan Fry, tennis prodigy of England who, with no ranking whatever, startled the tennis world as runner-up to Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen in the recent Wimbledon championship. a result she earned a place on visiting British team for the international team matches.

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