The recreations of this hard-working girl consist of reading, going visiting, walking, studying nature, making a flower garden, and writing letters. She also naively includes going to Sunday School among her recreations. She takes an excursion to the shore once in a great while; but only seldom has she the time for that. She can have the use of a conveyance at convenience, and on Saturday she and her mother drive to town and occasionally on Sunday to church. Has she no games? No, she is an only child and has never had any playmate in the home. Besides the flower garden and nature study form her recreation. But she thoughtfully encloses in one letter a list of games that she thinks girls may like to know about and gives a bibliography of articles on games for young folks in the woman's paper they are accustomed to take in her home. In her community there are perhaps twenty-five young people. They have a dance once or twice a month and a picnic twice a year; and there is a school social every two months. The social life of the village centers about the school as much as anywhere. Perhaps they could attract more interest to the church if the members of the church choir only had tact and facility enough. They have no resident minister and therefore the church lacks a centralizing element. But the village has a hall with a platform, a two-roomed school house, and a tennis court, as facilities for a social center. There is also a rest room at the ice cream parlor and back of the church there is another hall. One would say that there was no excuse for this town if it did not have a thriving social life and a good time for everybody on the highest lines. And ought they not to overcome all separating difficulties, if there be any such, and establish a regular pastor and begin to have a real community life? For how can a town with all those advantages hold up its head among the towns of America if it has a church building and no church therein? Certainly though one girl can do much, she cannot do all. One may judge any girl by the books she sets down as her favorite reading matter: This farm girl mentions The Bible, Shakespeare, _Silas Marner_, _Days Off_, _The Calling of Dan Matthews_, _Alice in Wonderland_, _Little Women_, _John Halifax Gentleman_, _Lorna Doone_, _David Harum_, _The Little Minister_, _Distractions of Marietta_, _The Chimes_, _Treasure Island_, _Josephus_, _Lady of the Lake_, _Rose and Ring_, _Prince Otto_, _Red Badge of Courage_, _Poems of All Great Poets_, Idylls of the King, Department of Agriculture Bulletins, Botanies and School books. To this list she adds the name of the woman's paper she and her mother had taken, the file of which she has preserved for some years. Those she underscores as the ones she reads with most delight are these: _Little Women_, _Little Minister_, _Alice in Wonderland_, and all the stories in her woman's paper. The serial story appeals to her most, because she has to wonder how it is going to come out.