the applicant and the job, and even of intelligent interest in the girl’s industrial career. Here was a rich opportunity wholly lost. The Schmidlapp Fund found the most reliable way to gain the desired information to be through a bureau of its own. By this time, Mr. Schmidlapp had become so keenly interested that he decided to finance such a bureau without encroaching upon the Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Fund, which could still be used for individual girls. The bank, which Mr. Schmidlapp had made trustee of the fund and of which he had been the first president, offered to house the bureau and to allow the work to enjoy its prestige. Consequently there now appears on the door of the trust department the following sign: The Schmidlapp Bureau for Women and Girls Free Employment Department Vocation Department The Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Fund We are beginning to attempt to do the things which ought to have been done for us twenty years ago. In the words of the annual report: This Bureau will be based on the work of the Vocation Bureau in Boston, the Alliance Employment Bureau in New York, and on the work of Mrs. Ogilvie Gordon, of Scotland. It will have a close affiliation with all the social centers in Cincinnati, will be confined to work for women and girls, and its general scope and usefulness cannot be better formulated than in Mrs. Gordon’s Handbook of Employment and in a report of the Alliance Employment Bureau: 1st. By well-planned education and congenial employment to bring as favorable influences as possible to bear upon upgrowing girls. If the first few working years of the girl can be spent industrially and to a good purpose, the parents and public may have confidence in the future of the women. 2d. To form a center of industrial information and a connecting link between school training and trade requirements, thus aiding in the development of industrial education. 3d. To make a constructive study of the facts involved in the problem of employment. 4th. To aid by counsel and information as well as by employment the girl who must be a wage earner.