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time. Her mother has taught her how to do house- 

 work." Further than that the father seemed to 

 know very little about his daughter, and he showed 

 plainly that he did not consider this second topic 

 of conversation half so interesting as the first one. 



Is THE COUNTRY GIRL NEGLECTED ? 



Inquiry will prove that the foregoing case of 

 parental ignorance and indifference about the daugh- 

 ter is all too common, especially the ignorance. It 

 seems never to have occurred to many parents who 

 have growing daughters that unless the young 

 woman have a fair amount of knowledge of the value 

 and use of money her future happiness and well- 

 being and that of her family are in danger of becom- 

 ing seriously jeopardized. It is a singular and yet 

 lamentable fact that so many American parents, 

 parents too who are intensely desirous that their 

 growing children have the best possible moral and 

 religious teaching that these same good parents 

 fail to understand how one of the very foundation 

 stones of efficient moral and religious life is consti- 

 tuted of a definite body of knowledge of common 

 business affairs. They do not seem to realize that 

 the young man or the young woman who knows 

 from experience just how money is earned, and how 

 it may be judiciously expended and profitably in- 

 vested, is far on the way to a high plane of moral and 

 religious living. 



