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to Greenland as teachers (governesses)
usually get about Kr 300 per year
as salary, besides transportation and
living, though occasionally one
gets as much as Kr 400. Miss
Houtman, who is 19 yrs old, tells me
that she has had Kr 200 for her
year with the Scimons at Fred-
riksbaad, but that she not only taught
the children 2 1/2 hrs per day, but
also did the room work of four rooms
and ground and made the
coffee for luncheon. She said
that she was maid as well as teacher
but that she liked it at Fredriks-
baad. This she had no time to her-
sf. Her father is a well to do, or
wealthy merchant. Her mother