earn to bake bread and cakes,
how to dress game and fish, and how to make bacon appetising twice a
day. She must "set" the hens so that there may be "broilers" against
Thanksgiving Day, and eggs all the year round. She has to sow the
lettuces, radishes, and onions for succulent salads; and always she must
supply sunshine and music, indoors and out, for dad and mother and the
boys.

Perhaps you think she is not happy, but you are sadly mistaken. She is
busy all day and sleepy all night. She knows that after a while a
railroad is coming in here, and there will be work and money for men and
teams, which means the establishment of a town near by, where you may
purchase all kinds of household comforts and conveniences, to say
nothing of pretty blouses, hats, and other "fixings." Oh, she knows it,
the minx! She is the kind of a girl Charles Wagner describes as putting
"witchery into a ribbon and genius into a stew."

But let us take a look at the girl who lives in the more settled parts
of the country, near a town.

If she be ambitious, or anxious to help the home-folk, she will want to
become a teacher, a bookkeeper, Civil Service employee, or a
stenographer. To accomplish this end, she drives to town every day to
attend the High School or Business College. Or perhaps she may move
into town for the school terms.

Of all these occupations, that of the teacher is most popular. Teachers,
in these new provinces, are in great demand, for the supply is entirely
inadequate. As a result, they are especially well paid.

If the teacher is hard to get, she is also hard to hold; for the
bachelor population being largely in the majority, there are many
flattering inducements of a matrimonial character held out to the girl
teacher to settle down permanently with a young farmer, doctor, real
estate agent, lawyer, or merchant. You could never believe what
inducements these sly fellows hold out. Never!

In town our girls find many diversions. She may skate, ride, play golf,
basket-ball, or tennis, according as her purse or preference may
dictate.

If there be no municipal public library, or reading-room in connection
with the Young Women's Christian Association, she may borrow books from
a stationer's lending-library for a nominal sum, so that none of her
hours need be unoccupied or unprofitable.

[Sidenote: Young Men and Maidens]

In Canadian towns and villages the Church-life is of such a nature that
every opportunity is given