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The first town has the licensed saloon and the factory owners have not
the breadth of mental vision to see what good houses, fair wages and
common sense treatment can do to build the character of the average
girl. The second town has never had a saloon, the owners of its
factories and business houses live in the town and they have the keen
vision which sees the value of good houses in which to live, fair pay,
and opportunity for real recreation. They have been able to raise the
standard of the average girl, therefore the enviable record and
character of the town.

It is the average girl in college who determines the character and
reputation of that college. It is not the brilliant girl, it is not the
girl whose earnest plodding barely carries her through, it is not the
failure, it is the average girl. If the average girl should leave her
college a good athlete, interested in everything athletic, that fact
would determine the general character of the college. If the average
girl leaves her college with broadened sympathies, good scholarship,
intense interest in the affairs of the day, real joy in living and
helping; these things determine the reputation and character of the
college. If the average girl leaves her college with social ambitions
and plunges into the social whirl, giving her time and strength to the
race for social prominence and notoriety, these things determine the
character and decide the reputation of that college.

The usefulness and character of every church is determined not by the
few people who do all that a church member should do, nor by the few who
utterly fail to fulfil the mission of the church, but by the attitude,
work and conduct of the average member of it.

The average girl in any occupation determines its standing and
character. The average girl in the employ of any concern determines not
only its value as a public servant but its success.

The average girl holds the key to all situations touching the life of
girls. As the average girl becomes more efficient, finer in character,
broader in thought, more sound in body, mind and spirit, she raises
society with her; as she loses in efficiency, in power of thought and in
character, grows weaker in body, mind and spirit, she drags society down
with her.

What should she be like, this all-important average girl? What is she in
the ideal? I have asked scores of girls the question and the following
paragraph is their answer as well a