Farm Boys and GirlsMcKeever, William A. (William Arch)
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Farm Boys and Girls
McKeever, William A. (William Arch)
Boys; Farm life; Girls
3. It is also essential that the girl learn how to manage the business
affairs of the home; especially, how to purchase the supplies of the
kitchen and the larder in the most economic fashion. She must also learn
both how to secure her own personal belongings at a reasonable cost and
how to make them serve her real needs without unnecessary expenditure
of money. It will be a great achievement in her behalf if the girl
approach her marriage day thoroughly imbued with the thought of
cooperating with her husband in the general business of maintaining a
home.
4. We would remind the reader again of the necessity of giving attention
to the development of an attractive personality in the growing girl.
Pleasing manners, refined expressions, neat and attractive apparel,
kindliness and sympathy, frankness and straightforwardness--all these
should enter into her make-up and be thought of as parts of her
permanent character. They will also go far toward winning to her side a
suitable life companion.
5. The young girl on the farm should have much advice in respect to the
nature and character of men. This will be achieved partly through her
well-ordered social life and partly through specific talks from
thoughtful parents. Country girls are probably less informed in respect
to the natures of men than are city girls. Many beautiful and innocent
young women are led astray either before or after marriage by evil and
designing men; many of them consummate marriages with men who have an
outer appearance of trustworthiness, but who harbor within some most
serious and insurmountable evil and disease. Although she may not for a
time be conscious of what her parents are doing, the latter should be
for years purposely engaged in preparing their daughter to know at sight
a good man.
Finally, it may be said that there is no greater charm or thing of more
superior beauty in this good world of ours than the character of a woman
who has been well-born and well-reared, and who has been safely guided
into the home of her own wherein she reigns as mistress supreme. In this
ideal home the love and sympathy and the kindly deeds of the true
home-maker will reveal themselves permanently in the lives of her
children and her husband and the many others who come into contact with
her constructive personality.
REFERENCES
Women's Ways of Earning Money. Cynthia Westover Alden. A. S.
Barnes & Co.
The Home Builder. Dr. Lyman Abbott. Houghton, Mifflin
Company. Sympathetic and cheering.
Almost a Woman. Mary Wood Allen, M.D. Crist, Scott &
Parshall, Coopertown, N.Y. A plain talk to the young woman
about her sex nature.
The Problem of Vocational Education. David Snedden, Ph.D.
Chapter XII, "The Problem of Women in Industry." Houghton,
Mifflin Company.
The Vocational Guidance of Youth. Meyer Bloomfield. Chapter
I, "The Choice of Life Work and its Difficulties." Houghton,
Mifflin Company.
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