young girls to become acquainted with others
of their own age. There are literary, temperance, missionary, and social
clubs in connection with them, some one of which meets almost every
night. In the winter the clubs have sleigh-rides and suppers, and in the
summer lawn-socials and picnics much as they do in England, or in any
part of the British Isles.

Compared with girls in the older countries, it is my opinion that the
Canadian lassie of the North-West Provinces has a keener eye to the
material side of life. This is only a natural outcome of the commercial
atmosphere in which she lives.

She sees her father, or her friends, buying lots in some new town site,
or in a new subdivision of some city, and, with an eye to the main
chance, she desires to follow their example. These lots can be
purchased at from L10 to L100, and by holding them for from one to five
years they double or treble in value as the places become populated.

As a result, nearly all the girls employed in Government offices, or as
secretaries, teachers, or other positions where the salaries are fairly
generous, manage to save enough money to purchase some lots to hold
against a rise. After investing and reinvesting several times, our girl
soon has a financial status of her own and secures a competency. She has
no time for nervous prostration or moods, but is alert and wideawake all
the time.

Does she marry? Oh, yes! But owing to her financial independence,
marriage is in no sense of the word a "Hobson's choice," but is
generally guided entirely by heart and conscience, as, indeed, it always
should be.

Some of the girls who come from Europe or the British Isles save their
dollars to enable the rest of the family to come out to Canada.

"Wee Maggie," a waitress in a Winnipeg restaurant, told me the other day
that in three years she had saved enough to bring her aged father and
mother over from Scotland and to furnish a home for them.

Still other girls engage in fruit-farming in British Columbia, or in
poultry-raising; but these are undertakings that require some capital to
start with.

An increasingly large number of Canadian girls are taking University
courses, or courses in technical colleges and musical conservatoires,
with the idea of fitting themselves as High School teachers or for the
medical profession.

In speaking of the girls of Western Canada, one must not overlook the
Swedish, Russian, Italian, Galician, and other Europeans wh