GIRLS’ EMPLOYMENTS.
K. A. (Music Teacher).—We cannot recommend any girl to come over to this country and seek employment as a teacher of music only. The competition in the musical world is so severe that only the best teachers succeed in any degree at all, and those who are not quite remarkably good are obliged merely to teach music as one among many subjects.
Julius Cæsar (Copying, etc.)—There is very little copying to be had since typewriting was introduced, and, in any case, the law stationers, to whom this class of work is usually entrusted, would not care to send it down to the West of England to be done. Plain needlework orders you might very likely obtain from people in your own locality. In our opinion, people who are obliged to live at home and to exercise great economy, cannot do better than work for themselves, that is to say, make their own clothes, do their own cooking and housework, etc. In this way they can at all events save themselves occasions for spending money. But earning for those who live in the heart of the country is much more difficult than for town-dwellers, while on the other hand living is cheaper.
A Well-Wisher of the “G. O. P.” (Emigration to Canada).—See reply to “Unsettled” ([No. 1014]). For your age you are certainly not receiving very high wages, and the fact suggests that you have no great talent for cooking. Perhaps you might do better in Canada, where the duties would be more varied. But we cannot take the responsibility of advising you to take such a step, as you are by no means badly off where and as you are. You might easily go further and fare worse.
Lorraine (Travelling Companionship).—There is really no demand for travelling companions. If you are fond of travelling, you had possibly better emigrate under the auspices of the British Women’s Emigration Association, Imperial Institute, Kensington, W.; but in this event you must be prepared to do plenty of domestic work. In the meantime, however, you should take a thorough course of training in cookery, etc. You could obtain this by spending some time in the Emigrants’ Training Home, Leaton, Wrockwardine, Wellington, Salop. Perhaps, however, you have a talent for some trade that you could pursue in the Old Country, and in this case it would be better to remain. But you give us no sufficient idea of your aptitudes for us to offer much practical guidance.