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they take every reasonable precaution to develop in 

 their growing daughters both an attractive personal- 

 ity and a beauty of the inner character, whether she 

 be so fortunate as to attend a good college or not. 

 All this must be done with a thought of rendering 

 the daughter as attractive as possible in respect to 

 any worthy young man who may in time seek her 

 heart and hand in marriage. It is time for parents 

 to cease passing this thing by as a mere piece of sen- 

 timentalism and to begin to do the fair thing by 

 their girls. Why should it longer come to pass in 

 this enlightened age that some parents break down 

 the physical health of their girls with the burden of 

 over- work and thus consign them to a life of moping 

 and bitter disappointment for the future ; that other 

 parents indulge their girls in the giddy, butterfly 

 type of life and thus blight their prospects of a sub- 

 stantial and satisfactory place in human society ? 



SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION 



In summarizing and concluding this chapter we 

 wish to remind the reader of what has been said in 

 the preceding ones. There are a number of distinc- 

 tive elements that must be carefully wrought into 

 the character of the farmer's daughter with a view to 

 laying a substantial foundation for her future career. 



1. First of all, the girl's health must be kept in 

 mind. She must not have an overburden of work 

 heaped upon her delicate shoulders, nor must she be 



