Produced by This ebook was produced by: K. Nordquist, Charles Bidwell, David T. Jones & the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net The Canadian Girl at Work _A BOOK OF VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE_ By MARJORY MacMURCHY Prepared at the Instance of the Minister of Education for Use in Ontario School Libraries [Illustration: logo] Printed by Order of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario TORONTO Printed and Published by A. T. Wilgress, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty 1919 Copyright, Canada, 1919, by the MINISTER OF EDUCATION FOR ONTARIO PREFACE The object of _The Canadian Girl at Work_ is to assist girls in finding satisfactory employment. The further aim of showing them what constitutes a right attitude toward work and toward life through work, underlies the account of each occupation. The book is meant for girls, and for the assistance of fathers and mothers, of teachers, and of those who are interested in questions of training and employment. The life of the average woman is divided, generally, into two periods of work, that of paid employment and that of home-making. No adequate scheme of training for girls can fail to take account of this fact. They should be equipped with knowledge and skill for home-making, and assisted in making the best use of their years in paid work. Happily, it appears from an investigation of the conditions affecting girls as wage-earners that the knowledge which helps them to be good home-makers is necessary to their well-being in paid employment. Technical training and skill are not more helpful to a girl at work than specialized knowledge in matters of food, clothing, health, and daily regimen. Lack of training in home-making is probably the greatest drawback which a girl in paid employment can have. Her business during her first years of paid employment may not require much skill or experience, but her living conditions require all the specialized woman's knowledge that training can give her. To bring about in the life of a girl a satisfactory connection between paid employment and home-making, and to show the home employments in their rightful place as occupations of the first importance, are necessary objectives in any book of this character.