work--whether it is
running a home and bringing up their children, or being out in the world
in business--they will never be as efficient as men are in their field."

We should be careful then to know how a girl should equip herself for the
home employments. If she will look back to chapter five, "What Every Girl
Needs to Know," she will find that in order to develop into a young woman
able to meet the problems, work, responsibilities and joys of life, she
should know how to keep herself and other people well. To keep herself
well, she should understand the values of food and how to prepare food;
she should know how to dress, which includes knowing how to make and mend
clothes; and she should know how to rest. In order to keep other people
well, she must know what food should be given to babies, to people at work,
both men and women, and to old people. She should also be able to judge
whether they are properly clothed and cared for. If possible, every girl
should have some knowledge of nursing. She may not be a trained nurse,
but she should have some of the knowledge and skill of the trained nurse.

One of the finest of the home employments is this great work of caring for
people and keeping them well. One of the functions of a home is to preserve
the health of its inmates.

Fortunately, any girl who wants to learn the art and science of home making
may learn at home or in school, or she may go to special classes where all
these domestic subjects are taught. There is hardly any study which is more
delightful, because one has the pleasure of working with one's hands as
well as studying. A girl who is a good cook, and knows how to cut out
clothes and sew them, has a good part of the knowledge of the home-maker.

What else does the girl need to know before she can feel that she is
properly trained to have charge of a home? The girl should be prepared
to find that home-making requires a varied and very interesting training.
The best home-maker needs a thorough knowledge of household accounting.
The business girl understands that the factory, the store and the office
can not be managed successfully unless the manager understands all about
the bookkeeping of his business, for the books of the business should
show the exact condition of the enterprise. The home is not a business
and yet it requires some knowledge of business.

Much of her own happiness and usefulness and the happiness and usefulness
of others will depend o