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seriously impaired thereby. After that, the young 

 woman's proper advancement in the profession may 

 be thought of. The ungraded district school is 

 an excellent trying-out and testing position for the 

 young teacher. But if she continues many terms 

 in the school room, graded work will prove more 

 advantageous, especially in the important matter 

 of bringing the young woman into the company of 

 marriageable young men. 



2. May take up stenography. A vast army of 

 young women now support themselves with the use 

 of the type-writer. This work pays slightly more 

 the year round than school teaching. It is somewhat 

 more confining ; but, for various other reasons, it is 

 less deleterious to the general health. Such office 

 business, however, subjects the young woman to 

 many temptations. It is the opinion of the author 

 that stenography is not at all a desirable occupation 

 for the farmer's daughter to enter. The continued 

 absence from home, the constant association with 

 people differing radically in tastes and manners from 

 the rural population, not to mention again the many 

 temptations to accept lower moral standards 

 these and other matters will tend to estrange the 

 farm daughter from her parents and to make them 

 feel that something of the former charm of sweet 

 simplicity and home affection has passed perma- 

 nently out of her life. 



One thing at least is to be considered before the 



