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from hard necessity she has learned that her 

 work must be up to a certain mechanical 

 standard at least, and then she will be all 

 right. Of course if she chooses to put her 

 heart and mind into it she will achieve a 

 better result. Now the kind of girl we are 

 discussing as a student has perhaps had a 

 regular education, and done her lessons satis- 

 factorily, but when she leaves school her day 

 at home possibly consists in doing or not 

 doing certain self-imposed tasks, in visiting or 

 not visiting as her fancy dictates, and, in fact, 

 after a conscientious performance of her few 

 household duties, the question of filling up 

 the time is the one problem in which she is 

 seriously engaged. 



When therefore such a girl thinks of 

 taking up gardening as a profession, she has 

 first of all to get herself into harness. She 

 must go to a place where regular work or 

 leisure is provided for every hour of the day. 

 She must submit to rules of some kind, how- 

 ever light, because she then becomes a 



