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actual experience, and much of it, as a basis for their 

 becoming a permanent part of character. Hence, 

 the so-called dishonesty of women in relation to the 

 obligations of a business agreement that is prob- 

 ably nothing more than a matter of sheer ignorance. 

 Farm girls are proverbially lacking in business 

 practice and in knowledge of the rights and obliga- 

 tions of a contract. It is obligatory upon their 

 parents to remove such ignorance through business 

 training. 



8. Prepare her to deal with grafters. "The 

 majority of his victims were women," is the state- 

 ment so often read in connection with the fraudulent 

 schemes of the exposed money shark. Millions of 

 dollars are annually taken from credulous women by 

 the get-rich-quick money trader. This polite form 

 of theft has become so flagrant as to necessitate 

 much vigilance and many prosecutions on the part of 

 the national government. Widows and other de- 

 pendent women are especially the sufferers. 



The necessity of preparing the innocent young 

 woman to deal with the enticing business fraud is 

 very apparent. Two or three matters must es- 

 pecially be attended to in giving the required in- 

 struction. First, take advantage of many occasions 

 to explain to the girl just how a given case is being 

 worked, so that she may be on guard against such 

 allurements; second, it is well to advise the un- 

 trained young woman against investing in any scheme 



