190 How Much Work for the Country Girl 



grinding toil and enforced seclusion all for the 

 sake of the work and the profits. 



It is a singular fact that so many country mothers 

 make no provision for throwing extra safeguards 

 around their young daughter during the monthly 

 period of physical drain and weakness. It could 

 probably be shown that her lowered vitality and the 

 increased susceptibility to fatigue at this time make 

 almost complete rest and relaxation highly advisable. 

 It is also most probable that the strain of work and 

 the exposure to inclement weather, so often allowed 

 during the monthly period, are the incipient causes 

 of life-long weakness and disease. 



Do YOU OWN YOUR DAUGHTER? 



There are still not a few parents who are possessed 

 of the old-fashioned idea that their children belong 

 to them, that they have a proprietary right in 

 their own sons and daughters. Just now there is 

 thought of a father who is intelligent, in many 

 ways above the average man, but who seems to 

 regard his twenty-three-year-old daughter as a 

 sort of chattel. Being a widower, he needs her 

 services, so he would employ her at the least possible 

 wages, or none, to take charge of the home, rear the 

 two or three smaller children, and cook and keep 

 house for himself and three or four hired men. The 

 best excuse that may be offered for this man's 

 attitude toward his daughter is sheer ignorance of 



