192 How Much Work for the Country Girl 



pline is that of securing a willing obedience. Then 

 the tasks may be assigned in accordance with the 

 girl's age and strength. There is no good reason 

 for attempting to get work out of the child through 

 a make-believe policy of play. Children had better 

 be made to understand from the first that the world 

 we live in is constructed largely through work ; and 

 that labor is honorable and may even be made 

 pleasurable. 



"I should rather do the work myself than be 

 bothered with trying to get the children to do it," is 

 a very common expression, and one which indicates 

 an erroneous idea of the problem we are considering. 

 So long as parents put their children at the tasks 

 merely for the sake of getting the tasks done, the 

 children will suffer as a consequence. But if the 

 thought of the child's need of the discipline coming 

 from work be uppermost, then, the results are 

 likely to be wholesome. 



TEACH THE GIRL SELF-SUPREMACY 



One of the greatest problems of the future of the 

 race is involved in the fact that many thousands of 

 the best young women in the land young women 

 who are well fitted to be the mothers of a better 

 race of human beings than we now have are 

 choosing an independent calling for themselves. It 

 is the author's belief that one of the most tragic 

 experiences known to any considerable portion of the 



