240 Business Training for the Country Girl 



among the women and girls of the wealthier families 

 is quite as much a menace to social solidarity as 

 was the older order of keeping women in ignorance 

 and servitude. 



The problem of household help is much intensified 

 because of the disfavor with which the so-called 

 better classes of women look upon the vocation of 

 the domestic employee. The necessary inequality 

 of rank of the home mistress and her employees is 

 more a matter of tradition and imagination than 

 of reality. The social inequality which follows and 

 which drives many young women into less advan- 

 tageous places of employment will disappear just 

 as soon as all growing girls are conducted through 

 a carefully planned course of work and household 

 industry. No farm parents can afford to deny the 

 daughter the excellent disciplinary results of careful 

 training in the performance of every ordinary house- 

 hold duty. 



2. Teach her business sense. In cases where the 

 growing boy or girl is simply given spending money 

 for the asking or the begging there results a 

 perverted idea of the meaning of money. A girl so 

 trained during her youthful years is inclined to take 

 this same attitude toward her husband in the future. 

 That is, she will probably regard it as necessary to 

 beg for an allowance and deem it right and proper 

 to spend all she can obtain in this way. The serious- 

 ness of such relations between man and wife is easily 



