Chapter XIV, particularly as to bodily carriage, exercise,
breathing, clothing, food and eating, elimination of waste, cleanliness, amount of sleep, rest, and prevention of illness Willingness to make sacrifices in order to gain and to maintain a high state of bodily strength and efficiency
_Perfect relations with the various members of the family_
Attentive and affectionate relations with the father Loving and helpful relations with the mother Amiable and companionable relations with brothers (if nearly her own age) Fair, responsive and tender relations with sisters (if nearly her own age) Patient and inspirational relations with the younger children
_Community spirit_
Dependable and active relations with the church Inquiring, critical, responsive relations with the school Helpful working relations with the community societies and societies for young people Cordial furtherance of any public work for betterment A pure, self-sacrificing and noble influence among the village young people
_Definite preparation for her home that is to be_
The "hope-box" and what it should contain A scheme for her house-plan and all its ideal details; the site, the appliances, the fittings and furniture, the decorations Training in the business of the home Training in the business of the farmstead Training in the knowledge of child-life and child-psychology Training in the laws governing the property of women
_Qualities for an efficient administrator of a household:_
Knowledge of the business and training for it either at home or in some school Power to systematize work, to apportion out labor, and to keep accounts and make budgets; power to purchase and to save wisely Ability to carry things through in a business-like way; courage to undertake things; ability to make both ends meet Resourcefulness; ability to act promptly when things go wrong, to adapt oneself to changes, to show reserve in emergencies Power to save time and avoid dawdling; to avoid unnecessary motions and waste of energy; to avoid unnecessary waste of materials Passion for cleanliness in rooms, furniture, utensils, linen; passion for personal cleanliness A real love of the work itself, a love to create good things; a love to see things done and to do them
If you, dear Country Girl, will take a score card similar to this, go away by yourself and think it all over, then conscientiously take the examination, mark yourself on all the points honestly and fairly, desiring strongly to be just with yourself and to see yourself as you really are, there will perhaps come to you an illuminated hour when you will dare to set yourself down in the group called "meritorious" or in the next group called "not-quite-meritorious-but-almost." Perhaps, however, you may feel that you ought to descend into the group named "inferior" or even into the "deficient" class. But this attempt at self-examination will spur you to greater effort, whatever your decision. For if you must say "inferior" or "deficient," there is no doubt some reason for the lacks, and the examination will help you to find these and to strive earnestly to make up for them. And if you feel that you can honestly say "meritorious," you must remember that all good qualities are but the stepping-stones to higher struggle and that life affords us many more advanced degrees to which we may aspire.
The Country Girl's Score Card may afford an appreciation of how much the young woman in rural life means to her environment. That appreciation will only make you see the more clearly the claims that country life has upon you. For you must realize that there is one link in the chain of American life that the Country Girl alone can forge. If you fail, the chain must break; but if you do your allotted part, the chain will be one of those that Milton loves to sing about, that bind the whole round earth about the throne of God.
INDEX
A
Abbott, E., 94.
Addams, Jane, 10.
Agricultural Department. See _U. S. Agr. Dep't._
Agricultural College of Conn., 202, 237, 238.
Amusement, recreation, 27, 30, 34, 50, 63, 64, 66, 67, 79, 291-302.
B
Barton, Clara, 10.
Bates, K. L., 338.
Beecher family, 215.
Beecher, Catherine, 292.
Benson, O. H., 189-191.
Bible, 20, 72, 269, 302; source of plots, 302.
Book exchange. See _Clubs_.
Books. See _Reading_.
Brainerd, David, 317.
Breathing, correct, 176.
Bureau of Animal Industry, 250.
Bureau of Chemistry, 250.
Bureau of Plant Industry, 55, 250.
Budget, 186 f, 192, 195-204, 223.
C
Canning in the home, 42.
Camp Fire Girls, 63, 64, 169, 321, 331-340.
Card catalog, 158.
Chase, L. G., 200.
Chemistry in household, 166.
Chicago, University of, 238.
Children in farm home, 38, 39, 56, 184, 214-216.
Christian Endeavor Society, 63, 64, 325.
Church, 3, 65.
Church Periodical Club, 56.
City: precautions, 346, 347; occupations in, 348; exodus to, 20, 66, 80, 81, 181.
Clothing. See _Dress_.
Clubs: canning, 54, 55, 189-191; book exchange, 271. See also _Organisations_.
College girls, work of, for Country Girl, 324.
Columbia University, 237.
Commission on Country Life, 3, 173.
Community spirit, 30, 43, 51, 56, 65, 67, 118, 119, 129, 216, 313, 354.
Comstock, Sarah, author "The Soddy," 94.
Congress of Farm Women, 321.
Conservation, 188.
Cooperative Agricultural Extension, Bill for, 244.
Cornell University, 187, 236, 238.
Correspondence basis of the work, 26.
Correspondence courses, 238.
Country Girl: as a class, 5; number of, in U. S., 7; wide extent, 9; in gainful occupations, 10; happiness in rural life, 9, 19, 36; experiences quoted, 33-82, 87-95, 102, 109, 112-120; as farmer, 9, 111; distinguished women, 10, 11; as homemaker of future, 25; character, 26, 30, 183; passion for independence, 29, 49; love for country, 26, 61; needs, 66; inheritance, 85; share in housework, 101, 102; relations with mother, 103-105; social life on farm, 118, 255 f; magnitude of her task, 150; wage, 181-192; opportunity, 211; barriers to her progress, 211; place in evolution, 207, 208; duty to country, 216, 343-548; going to the city, precautions, 346, 347; attitude of family toward, 353; importance of her status, 4, 17, 20, 87, 355. See also _Earning_, _Finance_, _Spiritual aspects_.
Country life movement, 3, 15, 16, 224.
Country life in: New England, 61, 200; New Hampshire, 111; New York, 34, 41, 111; South, 46 f, 189, 198, 243; South Dakota, 119; Porto Rico, 263, 264; Philippines, 263, 264; Alaska, 263, 264; western, 65, 109, 196; Northwest, 33, 37, 65.
Country life, favorable view, 26, 65, 70; influence on health, 28; misunderstood by urban people, 28; nearness to nature, 29; influence on poetic genius, 274; opportunities, 243-251; love of animals, 27; spiritual aspects, 27, 28; influence on home life, 29; an optimistic report, 37.
Country life, unfavorable view, 49, 61, 66, 75-82, 85, 86, 99, 109, 110. See also _City, exodus to_.
Crew, H. C., 98, 136, 266, 278.
D
Dishwashing, 151, 152. See _Equipment_.
Dress, 176, 196.
Dress budget, 195-204.
Drama. See _Play_.
E
Earning, 53, 64, 66, 68, 78, 182, 190-192, 195; spending, 68, 183, 187; bookkeeping, 161; parents' right to child's earnings, 182; wage of daughter, 181-192; daughter's share in farm, 184. See _Occupations_, _Budgets_, _Finances_.
Eberstadt, S., 206.
Economic position of farm woman. See _Finances_, _Earning_.
Education, training, 44, 54, 64, 69, 134, 147, 164, 165, 188, 231-239, 243; instruction at farm home, 248; a four years' course, 238; courses of study, 236-238.
Educational Alliance, 321.
Efficiency, 50, 123 f, 139-142, 147, 151-153, 157 f, 189, 192, 203, 204, 351-354. See _Equipment_.
Eight Weeks Clubs, 324. See _Y. W. C. A._
Epworth League, 325.
Equipment, 66, 126, 129, 131-134, 137-143.
Exercise, 176.
Experiment Stations, 55, 250.
F
Family. See _Children_, _Farm home_, _Family life_.
Family council, 184. See also _Farm home_.
Family life on farm, 33, 38, 39, 160.
Farm Bureau Agent, 249.
Farm home: wife, 79, 87, 91-95, 222; mother, 39, 103-105, 123; children, 214 f; council, 184; family records, 160-163; social life in home, 42; Sunday in, 40. See also _Efficiency_, _Equipment_, _Children_, _Farm home work_.
Farm home work: service in farm, 139; housework a wage-earning work, 192; housework as exercise, 170; daughter's share in work, 101, 102; system in work, 192; optimistic view of, 44; overwork, 37, 78, 80, 81, 91; laundry work on farm, 37. See also _Efficiency_, _Earning_, _Finances_.
Farm housework, routine of, 12-14, 33-82.
Farmsteads in U. S., number of, 16.
Finances of farm home, 53, 91, 115, 161, 195; training for right use of money, 54, 181; daughter's share in profits, 183; business of farm, 222; as farm partner, 221; woman's part essential to farm, 222; house accounts, 223-226; adaptation for accounting, 227; cost of living, 53.
Fireless cooker, 126.
Fiske, Professor G. W., 100, 254.
Foods, 165, 176.
Foote, Roxana Beecher, 89.
Foote, Abigail, 91.
Freeman, Alice E., 9.
G
Girls' Athletic League, 321.
Girls' Friendly Society, 321.
Girls' Protective League, 321.
Girls' Tomato Club, 55.
Gleason, Miss Caroline, 200.
Goldmark, Miss J., 171.
Good Templars, 321.
Grange, 64, 65, 321.
H
Harden, Miss Myrtle, 190.
Health, 169-177, 212, 353; of city child, 174, 175, 216; code of health rules, 175 f.
N
National Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild, 55.
Nearing, Professor Scott, 188.
Newspapers. See _Periodicals_.
O
Occupations on farm: old time industries, 91-95; wage-earning pursuits, 68, 189; standardizing woman's labor, 188; chickens, 41, 43; household industries, 91-95; teaching, 66, 68; nursing and other occupations, 348.
Office of Public Roads, 251.
Orderliness, 157 f.
Organizations, 317-340.
P
Pageantry, 305-313; at Thetford, Vt., 306; at St Johnsbury, Vt., 307; at North Adams, Mass., 308. See also _Community spirit_.
Parentage. See _Children_.
Pennsylvania State College, 54, 238.
Penny Magazine, 156.
Periodicals, 52, 62, 68.
Pioneering period, 5, 109, 120.
Play, drama, 291-302.
Poetry in country life, 273.
Porter, Mrs. G. S., 279.
Pratt, Miss Caroline, 198, 199.
R
Reading, 34, 36, 38, 43, 49-52, 54, 62, 67, 68, 70, 79, 215, 267-275; reading aloud, 272.
Records, household, 160-163. See also _Card catalog_.
Rest and health, 177.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 122, 146, 150.
Rural group, 16.
Rural mind, 6, 7.
Rural village defined, 174.
S
Schools, 67.
Scientific management. See _Efficiency_.
Score card for country girl, 351-355.
Shaw, Dr. Albert, 109.
Shaw, Rev. Anna H., 183, 184.
Simmons College, 237, 238.
Smith-Lever Bill, 244 f.
Sodality of the Children of Mary, 321.
Spending and saving. See _Earning_.
Spiritual aspects, 206.
Stewart, Elinore Rupert, 115-117.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 10, 280, 336.
Suicide, 259.
T
Temperance, medical, superintendent, 63.
Tomato clubs, 190, 191.
"True Lovers," play by J. C. Horne, 298-301.
U
United Farm Women, 54.
U. S. Department of Agriculture, 54, 55, 189, 191, 243-251.
U. S. Commission on Country Life, 173.
V
Van Rensselaer, Professor Martha, 187, 220.
W
War, moral equivalent for, 99.
Widdemer, Margaret, 2.
Willard, F. E., 2, 10, 242, 336.
Wilson, Elizabeth, 46, 324.
Wilson, President, 232.
W. C. T. U., 64.
Wisconsin, University of, 284.
Y
Y. W. C. A., 172, 318-327, 347.
Y. W. Hebrew Asso., 321.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE PROBLEM OF COUNTRY LIFE
ANDERSON, W. L.: The Country Town BUTTERFIELD, K. L.: Chapters in Rural Progress EARP, E. L.: The Rural Church Movement FISKE, G. W.: The Challenge of the Country (_Y. W. C. Asso. Press_) GILLETTE, J. W.: Constructive Rural Sociology HART, J. K., editor: Educational Resources of Village and Rural Communities ROOSEVELT, T.: Report of Commission on Country Life, Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt STRONG, J.: Our World
THE PROBLEM OF URBAN LIFE
DEVINE, E. T.: Misery and Its Causes LAUGHLIN, CLARA: The Work-a-Day Girl RICHARDSON, D.: The Long Day
THE WORLD OF ALL OUTDOORS
BAILEY, L. H.: The Outlook to Nature BREARLEY, H. C.: Animal Secrets Told COMSTOCK, ANNA B.: Handbook of Nature Study DIXON, ROYAL: The Human Side of Plants GRINNELL, M.: Neighbors of Field, Wood and Stream KNIGHT, C. R.: Animals of the World for Young People; Birds of the World for Young People LOUNSBERRY, A.: The Wild Flower Book for Young People; The Garden Book for Young People; Frank and Bessie's Forester
DELIGHTFUL BOOKS ABOUT THE COUNTRY
ALBEE, H. R.: Mountain Playmates BURROUGHS, J.: Wake Robin ROBERTSON, C. D.: Down the Year ROGERS, E. W.: Journal of a Country Woman STEWART, ELINORE RUPERT: Letters of a Woman Homesteader THOREAU, H. D.: Walden WHITING, C. G.: Walks in New England
EFFICIENCY IN THE HOUSEHOLD
CHILD, G. B.: The Efficient Kitchen CURTIS, I. G.: The Making of a Housewife DODD, H.: The Healthful Farmhouse FREDERICK, C.: The New Housekeeping GOLDMARK, J.: Fatigue and Efficiency GULICK, L. H.: The Efficient Life LANCASTER, M.: Electric Cooking MARCHANT, E.: Serving and Waiting TERRELL, B. M.: Handbook of Housekeeping
WOMAN AMONG THE WORLD'S WORKERS
ABBOTT, E.: Woman in Industry DORR, R. C.: What Eight Million Women Want NEARING, S.: Woman and Social Progress SPENCER, A. G.: Woman's Share in Social Culture The Woman Citizen's Library, 12 volumes WILBUR, M. A.: Everyday Business for Women
CRAFTS FOR GIRLS
BAILEY, C. S.: Girls' Make-at-Home Things BEARD, P.: The Jolly Book of Boxcraft CANDEE, H. C.: How Women May Earn a Living KELLEY, L. E.: Three Hundred Things a Bright Girl Can Do KLICKMAN, F.: The Modern Crochet Book; The Craft of the Crochet Hook; The Home Art Book of Fancy Stitchery; Home Art Crochet Book; The Cult of the Needle LASELLE, M. A. and WILEY, K. E.: Vocations for Girls MCEWEN, D.: Stenography in Two Weeks, A Text-book for Self-use. PARET, A. P.: Harpers' Handy Book for Girls SANFORD, L. G.: Art Crafts for Beginners WEAVER, E. W.: Vocations for Girls
BOYS' BOOKS THAT GIRLS CAN USE
ADAMS, M.: Boys' Own Book of Pets and Hobbies BAILEY, C. S. and M. E.: Boys' Make-at-Home Things BARNARD, J.: Every Man His Own Mechanic FRASER, C. C.: Every Boy's Book of Handicraft KELLAND, C. B.: The American Boy's Workshop
GAMES AND RECREATION
BAKER, E. M.: Indoor Games for Children and Young People BANCROFT, J. H.: Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium BARSE, M. E. S.: Games for all Occasions BEARD, L. and A. B.: How to Amuse Yourself and Others CAMPBELL, H. S.: The American Girl's Home Book of Work and Play CANFIELD, D.: What Shall We Do Now? CURTIS, H. S.: Play and Recreation for the Open Country JENKS, T.: Photography for Young People KINNEY, T. and M. W.: Social Dancing of To-day PARSONS, B. R.: Plays and Games for Indoors and Outdoors STERN, R. B.: Neighborhood Entertainments
SOME PROBLEMS OF GIRLHOOD
BURKS, F. W. and J. D.: Health and the School CABOT, R.: What Men Live By COE, G. A.: The Spiritual Life DANIELS, H. MCD.: The Girl and Her Chance LEARNED, E. C.: Ideals for Girls SLACK, E. J.: A Little Essay in Friendship (_Y. W. C. Asso. Press_) SLATTERY, M.: The Girl in her Teens
A GROUP OF BIOGRAPHIES OF COUNTRY GIRLS WHO BECAME GREAT AND USEFUL WOMEN
MARY LYON, by B. B. Gilchrist ALICE FREEMAN PALMER, by G. L. Palmer ELLEN H. RICHARDS, by Caroline L. Hunt HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, by Martha Foote Crow FRANCES E. WILLARD, by Anna A. Gordon
SOME OTHER INSPIRING STORIES
JANE ADDAMS' TWENTY YEARS AT HULL HOUSE LOUISE MAY ALCOTT, by Belle Moses Helen Keller's Story of MY LIFE Lucy Larcom's A NEW ENGLAND GIRLHOOD Margaret E. Sangster's FROM MY YOUTH UP N. Hudson Moore's DEEDS OF DARING DONE BY GIRLS
BOOKS OF POETRY COUNTRY GIRLS ENJOY
NOYES, ALFRED: Sherwood--Robin Hood and the Three Kings; Drake, an English Epic; Tales of the Mermaid Tavern The Golden Treasury, Series I and II The Little Book of Modern American Verse
A GROUP OF POEMS TO KNOW AND RECITE IN THE HOME
BATES, KATHERINE LEE: America the Beautiful BRANCH, ANNA HEMPSTEAD: Songs for My Mother DAVIS, FANNIE STEARNS: Souls GARRISON, THEODOSIA: The Daughter GUINEY, LOUISE IMOGEN: The Kings KILMER, JOYCE: Trees LINDSAY, VACHELL: Kansas MACKAYE, PERCY: Hymn for Equal Suffrage MARKHAM, EDWIN: To Young America MORGAN, ANGELA: Battle Cry of the Mothers
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