300 The Farm Girl's Preparation for a Vocation 



assigned duties, while at the same time she may 

 mingle freely in the society of both sexes. 



Indeed, if the thesis of this chapter be a sound and 

 tenable one, namely, that normally woman's high- 

 est satisfaction is to be sought through helping her 

 attain efficient home life, then, there is every reason 

 for agreeing with the late Professor James in his 

 contention that every young woman ought to be 

 taught how to know a good man. It is distinctively 

 the business of the young college woman, not only to 

 prepare well all her lessons in household economy 

 and the literary subjects, but also to keep her eye 

 out for a suitable life companion. And her father 

 should be made to realize that her opportunities for 

 marrying a man of high worth and ability are in- 

 creased many fold through the completion of a course 

 in the ideal form of co-educational college. 



Marriages among college mates are usually most 

 successful, both in the final establishment of sub- 

 stantial home life and in point of resulting in a rea- 

 sonable number of well-reared children. Statistics 

 gathered widely show that the young woman college 

 graduate marries somewhat later than her non- 

 attending sister, that she has slightly better health, 

 that her children are somewhat fewer, but better 



reared. 



MAKE THE DAUGHTER ATTRACTIVE 



It may therefore be urged upon all rural parents, 

 as a cold business proposition, as well as a duty, that 



