Contents. INTRODUCTION. Great Need of Employment by Persons of all Classes-Causes of ... -- ... PAGE 1-11 REMUNERATIVE INVESTMENTS AND BUSINESSES FOR LADIES ... ... ... ... Ladies with Children or Relatives to Maintain: Keeping "a Home to- ... ... ... 13-16 16, 17 17, 18 Taking or Buying Houses-Building Societies-Necessity of Employing Country Occupations-Nursery and Market Gardening Profitable-How to Sell Produce-The Gardeners' Magazine-Amateur Gardening- Exchange and Mart-Flowers for Church Decoration - Perfume. Distilleries-Sunflowers Profitable-Kitchen Gardens - Fruit Cul- ture-Jam-Pickles - Home Made Wines--Beet Root Growing for Sugar Manufacture--Profits from Beets-The Lavenham Sugar Tobacco Culture: Most Profitable in Ireland-Conditions most favour- Flax Growing: Profitable for Linseed Oil and Oil Cake-Stock Feeding Reekeeping as a Business-American Bee Farming-Enormous Profits; How they are made Latest Scientific Invention-Mr. Hoge, the largest American Bee Cultivator-Increasing Demand for Honey- Cottage Farming-Poultry Rearing: Pigs, Rabbits, Goats, &c.-Cost of Starting a 10-acre Farm-Profits to be made-Crops-Labour ... Public Elementary Schools (New Code): School Board Appointments- ... ... ... ... Number of Certificated Teachers in England and Wales, Salaries of Regulations for Admission of Teachers to Public Elementary Schools Pupil Teachers: How to become one-Particulars of Engagement 35 PAGE Teachers Appointments and Emoluments under London School Board... 37-39 Head, Assistant, and Pupil Teachers' Salaries-Training Colleges: Ex- traordinary Cheapness and Excellence of Education-Admission to Reports of H. M. Inspectors-List of Training Colleges under Inspection, 43-46 47 48 49 50, 51 52, 53 54, 55 56, 57 Great encouragement and aid given by the State to the Industrial Classes, and those whose incomes do not exceed £200 per annum Aid to Art Students and Teachers: Free Education Allowances ranging from 15s. to £2 weekly-Aid to Training Colleges-To Art Classes- To Schools of Art-Ladies as Art Teachers: Good Remuneration of Public Examinations-Prizes-Scholarships--Aid to Teachers and Stu- dents-Royal Exhibitions-National Scholarships and Free Studentships-Free Instruction for Teachers and Advice How to obtain an Engagement-What to beware of-How to Advertise-The Times, Daily Telegraph, Morning Post, Standard, Daily News, and Guardian-The Governesses' Benevolent Institu- How to Travel-Homes Abroad: Cost of Choice of an Engagement- Private Families or Ladies' Schools- Salaries obtained in Private Schools by Head and Assistant Teachers, Music Mistresses, Matrons, The Girls' Public Day School Company: High Salaries given-How to obtain an appointment in List of the Company's Schools, with Endowed Schools for Girls Emoluments of Head Mistresses: Very liberal, up to £2,000 per annum-List of Schools Salaries and Great demand for Ladies as Instructors in Public Elementary Schools- The Northern Union of Training Schools for Cookery, founded by H. R. H. 71, 72 Excellent and Remunerative Appointments for Ladies: Salaries varying up to £450-Number Employed in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin— Qualifications, Examinations, and Pensions Lady Doctors in Post Office-Salaries Clerks Salaries-Superintendents of-Principal Clerks-1st and 2nd Returners-Salaries-Superintendents of-1st and 2nd Class ... "Post Office Clerks"-How to Obtain an Appointment-Preliminary 78, 79 Work of a Prison Officer A Mission-Humanity Required Salaries of Female Prison Officials in England and Wales-Lady Superin- tendents, Matrons, Chief Warders, Warders, &c.-Duties of Officers- Specimen of Enquiry made by Civil Service Commissioners as to Charac- |