and
be polite to customers and fellow workers. Perseverance, intelligence and
physical strength are required by waitresses. A girl who is naturally
erect, with a good carriage and graceful walk, is at an advantage in this
occupation. She needs to be kindly and thoughtful and to take pleasure in
serving her customers. She has to understand and remember her customers'
checks, and the amount of the checks she hands in ought to equal the
average cash sales of other waitresses. Many customers make a point of
coming to the same waitress every day, and she should remember where they
prefer to sit and how they like to be served.

One advantage in this work is that the worker is given two, sometimes
three meals, in addition to her payment in actual money. In a number of
establishments the tipping system prevails, which provides a girl with an
added source of income. The average Canadian girl, however, dislikes being
tipped, and there are many objections to the tipping system.

CHAPTER XV

FARM WORK FOR WOMEN

Among those who choose work on the land as a special employment are girls
and women in the country who have the opportunity to give either part of
their time or all of it to farm work, and others from the city who prefer
an outdoor life. The problems of the city girl or woman who wishes to
engage in farm work are how to acquire skill and experience in her
business, capital for land and equipment, labour, transportation and a
market. The girl on the farm can solve these problems with an advantage
of fifty, seventy-five, or one hundred per cent. as compared with the girl
who migrates from town or city to carry on independent productive work in
the country.

Most girls and women in the country are familiar with farm life, and know
beforehand what they require for success in any kind of farm work. Eggs,
poultry, cream, butter, vegetables and fruit are sent to market by women
who are also home makers. There is, also, a growing movement among a few
able country women to make their productive work so extensive as to
constitute one-half or one-third of the whole work of the farm. Thus in
some instances a third of the farm land may be devoted to a poultry farm;
and its management is in reality an extensive business, undertaken with
all the thought, planning and attention which are given to a large farm
project. Productive work of this character is successfully carried on by
a few women.

A restricted number of women