XXX THE COUNTRY GIRL'S SCORE CARD 349 INDEX 359 BIBLIOGRAPHY 363 ILLUSTRATIONS The American Country Girl. An abundance of sunshine, fresh air, good water, and healthful exercise in the open permit wonderful young life to reach its highest development _Frontispiece_ The Country Girl is the life of the home. She is a companion for the parents and a playmate for the little brothers and sisters 26 The Country Girl and Her Pets. "The quietness of the country permits a greater spiritual and mental growth, with its abundance of life, plant and animal, which challenges the mind to discover its secrets" 27 The Country Girl takes a pride in her chickens that makes their care a pleasure to her 86 The Inheritance. The Country Girl, working cheerfully beside her mother, will learn much that will be of value to her in her effort to make the housework of to-day a joy and not a burden 87 A happy homesteader in front of her "soddy." The vastness of the country does not daunt her. She learns to love the quiet, broken only by the roar of a river at the bottom of a canyon or the howl of a coyote on the great sandy flats 118 A Knitting Class at an Agricultural School. Note the splendid poise of the Country Girl in the background--how naturally and yet perfectly she is holding herself 119 This Tennessee girl is a member of a Gardening and Canning Club. She won the cow and calves as premiums for having the best exhibit at the State Fair 190 Springtime in the country. City children may well envy their little country cousins the free life in the open and the companionship with animals 191 A lesson in household economics, at Cornell University 236 Children in a country school scoring corn. Everywhere the country is responding to the call of Progress, and these members of a new generation are striving to reach the best 237 The swiftly awakening artistic energies of the Country Girl are finding an outlet in the new national interest in pageantry. The farm, meadow or field makes an ideal stage 306 One of the many Eight Weeks Clubs organized throughout the country by the Y. W. C. A. 307 This photograph of a Camp Fire Girl shows the opportunity country life affords for good sport 336