uired in the employment.
These questions are discussed specially in Chapters XXIII and XXIV. When
the girl reads any statement concerning wages, she should remember that the
figures given represent only an approximate estimate. That is, while these
wages have actually been paid in one place, the same wages will not be
offered in these employments in every part of the country. Generally
speaking, the figures quoted represent mid-war wages.

The most important fact for the girl to learn about employment is that
when she does well-chosen work in the right spirit, she will find in it
happiness and usefulness. Through her work she will learn what an
interesting place the world is, and because she is a worker she will be
the companion of great workers who are advancing civilization every day.
She may feel sure that there is work for her to do, that she will find
work good, and the world a friendly place.

CHAPTER II

THE GIRL WHO WORKS IN A FACTORY

A girl's first impression of a factory is likely to be that it is a busy
place. The people at work and the work itself will seem strange to her.
She may even feel that she will never get used to her new surroundings.
But she should not allow herself to be discouraged. Although she may have
forgotten her first day in school when she was a little girl of five or
six, no doubt the schoolroom seemed to her then a very strange place, but
how quickly it became familiar and homelike.

The girl will enter the factory as a learner. Her wages will not be high,
but she will be paid for her first week, although it is hardly likely that
her work at first will be worth the money she receives for it. One of the
more experienced factory employees will be given the task of training her.
So the girl beginning work in a factory is really learning as she did at
school although now she is getting wages. The factory finds it worth while
to train beginners, and it does so in the hope that they will become
capable operators who will be in their places regularly.

One of the most important truths for the girl in the factory to realize is
that the more there is to learn about her work the better her future will
be as a worker. If there is so little to learn that she needs only a few
days to become independent of any training, then she will be sure to find
unskilled girls and low wages in this place of employment. She should not
be satisfied permanently with such work. The best positions are fo