296 The Farm Girl's Preparation for a Vocation 



required, and to pay reasonably for the service. 

 Several new, first-class schools and institutions for 

 training workers in this human field have been re- 

 cently organized. 



Now, if country parents become anxious to have 

 their daughter go away to the city and find desirable 

 employment and that at living wages, the author 

 recommends this new line of social work most highly. 

 For reasons given above, and for others, it will 

 prove an excellent stepping-stone to the home life 

 the work is in the general field of human betterment 

 so inviting to the natural instincts of the well-reared 

 young woman; the associates are persons likewise 

 interested in human welfare and ranking high in 

 moral and religious character; the required work is 

 usually of a nature to awaken the deepest sympathies 

 and affections and to make the countenance of the 

 worker shine with a new spiritual light. 



4. May secure clerkships. Clerking and general 

 store work is much followed by young women to-day, 

 but such work may be put down in the list of hazard- 

 ous occupations for women of any age. Close eco- 

 nomic conditions in the cities force many thousands of 

 girls to leave home and seek clerkships at a wage so 

 low as indirectly to undermine the health and more 

 directly to impair the morals. Great armies of these 

 girls are compelled to live in dingy, cramped quarters, 

 to subsist on much less than the quantity of whole- 

 some food necessary for good health, to practice the 



