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A TEST OF SELF-RELIANCE 



Only those who have tried paddUng a birch-bark canoe in rough water and wind can appreciate 

 the kinds of quaUties that this girl is developing. Photograph bv Mrs. Luther H. Galick 

 (Fig. 15.) 



of inheritance in a natural, positive 

 and interesting way. 



To "investigate the effects of ventila- 

 tion and sanitation in stores and 

 factories employing women," another 

 elective requirement for a bead, might 

 lead to inquiries concerning the trans- 

 mission of acquired characters, the 

 difference between immediate effects 

 of environment on women and their 

 children and the strictly racial modifica- 

 tions of circumstance and time. The 

 "study of ten pubHc institutions in her 

 locality" can hardly fail to acquaint a 

 girl with the purpose and content of the 

 poor-house, jail, insane asylum or home 

 for the feeble in mind, and such a study, 

 amateur and superficial as it may be, 

 will bite deeper into the mind than the 

 reading of a shelf full of official reports 

 later on. A patriotism paper on Immi- 

 gration brings up the great issues of 

 value in human stock and the right 

 to enter our gates. Studied and written 

 about in a spirit of interest in subject 



matter plus the desire for accomplish- 

 ment and the relation of the part to 

 the whole, the Jukes and Ishmaelites 

 and gunmen who flood into our country 

 through the leaks in our immigration 

 laws become real and living, and who 

 that knows the slightest of the psy- 

 chology of adolescence will doubt that 

 such an interest, so stimulated, will 

 influence the vote to be cast on these 

 questions a few years later ? 



To be familiar with National History 

 as it affects woman's welfare" has 

 already led two Camp Fire girls of my 

 own acquaintance, walking in entirely 

 different spheres, to hit upon the idea 

 of camp fire and scouting activities as 

 small beginnings of what William James 

 dreamed might prove a moral equivalent 

 of war. 



Thus "the study of agencies under 

 social control that may improve or 

 impair the racial qualities of future 

 generations either physically or men- 

 tally" is begun quite unconsciously, and 



