248 Business Training for the Country Girl 



Now, if it still be insisted upon that the country 

 girl have a definite business relation to the affairs of 

 the home, there are two or three ways whereby this 

 may be accomplished. One method is to give the 

 girl a fixed and reasonable sum of money for whatever 

 she may do by way of helping in the house. Another 

 is that of providing a small investment in something 

 that may be expected to increase reasonably in 

 value and finally bring her a money return. Of the 

 two methods of procedure mentioned, it would seem 

 that the first is the more desirable. If the daughter 

 be given an interest in anything like the live stock 

 or some farm crop, the thing will not appeal to her 

 directly, and whatever interest she may have in it 

 will be a purely borrowed one. On the other hand, 

 if she be given a generous allowance for her services, 

 and during the younger years be trained in the expen- 

 diture of this allowance, good results may be expected. 

 Similarly as with the boy, the growing girl must be 

 taught to look toward the future. A system of re- 

 straints must be placed against her tendency to 

 squander her small income, and gradually she may be 

 trained to set aside a small portion of what she has 

 with a view to its being applied upon something of 

 her own later in life. It is perhaps too much to ask 

 the girl to save enough money to pay her way through 

 college, but there are many advantages in training 

 her to save for a certain portion of that expense. 

 Perhaps she may be able to buy her own clothes. 



