244 Business Training for the Country Girl 



man, long practiced in enforced economy, but at 

 length having ample means, goes to the store with 

 the determination of paying liberally for an article; 

 and how he finally comes away with something 

 cheap. 



A "golden mean" is therefore to be sought in 

 training the girl in the use of money. Not how to 

 save at all hazards, but how to spend judiciously, 

 with conscious thought of the right relation between 

 income and outlay this is perhaps the more 

 acceptable ideal. 



6. Teach her to give. While inculcating business 

 ideas into the mind of your growing daughter, 

 guard against her acquiring a mere passion for money- 

 making and the accumulation of wealth. For 

 example, one of the best means of achieving this end 

 would be to see that she gives a part of her earnings 

 to some worthy cause or other. Explain to her 

 again and again that she must keep up in her life a 

 sort of equipoise of receiving and giving, if the highest 

 sense of inner satisfaction is always to be her portion. 



The young must learn sooner or later that there is 

 other than a money profit to be derived from the 

 investment of money. Accordingly, it will not be 

 found difficult for the rural parents to point out to 

 their daughter some place merely where she may 

 invest a small part of her earnings in human welfare. 

 An orphan child living in the neighborhood may be 

 sorely in need of a new dress or school books, a 



