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daughter be permitted to leave the country home for 

 an office position. That is, the work is not to be 

 considered as permanent, but rather as a possible 

 means of preparing for marriage and the contented 

 home life that should follow. 



3. May do social work. Next to the work of 

 teaching, perhaps the social-service work now being 

 developed and carried on in the cities would make 

 its appeal to the true-hearted young woman. Here 

 again we have a sort of task that dips into the 

 affections and sympathies of the worker and furnishes 

 an opportunity for her to give freely out of the 

 best she has in her make-up. Among the fortunate 

 considerations of teaching and social work are the 

 opportunities they offer for the sympathetic care 

 and guidance of children the indulgence of altruism 

 and the mother instinct in the young woman. 

 Parents will observe as a rule that their daughter 

 returns from such occupations as these with in- 

 creased affections for the home family and the home 

 life and a broader and more general interest in people. 



In recent years there has developed a new and re- 

 markably promising field of social work for both 

 young men and young women. Charitable, philan- 

 thropic, and other social-welfare institutions have 

 been greatly multiplied, while their work has been 

 put on a scientific basis. The modern method of 

 securing employees in such places is that of calling 

 persons especially trained and fitted to do the work 



