r. But the fathers and mothers of some of the
girls will be glad to be honorary members and should share at times both
in work and in play. A boys' club may be a friendly rival in games and may
co-operate in benevolent work and entertainment.

CHAPTER XXIX

CIVIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Learning to be a good neighbour is an active enjoyment which lasts us all
our lives. Our civic duties and responsibilities may be summed up by saying
that they are the duties and opportunities of a good neighbour. We should
study our civic duties and responsibilities carefully so that we may know
how to vote rightly and wisely when we are given an opportunity to vote on
public questions.

The privilege of voting as a citizen is of the highest importance. But
it is not by any means the only duty or opportunity of a good neighbour.
Women have exercised the right to vote only of recent years, and still in
a number of countries women do not yet vote. They can and do give service
in many other ways. Every man and woman who has the franchise should
record an honest and intelligent vote. But those who vote should give
other service as well. Those who are too young to vote have other
opportunities to work for the community and for the nation.

The right to vote in Canadian elections for the Dominion House of Commons
was given to a limited number of women for the first time in 1917. By an
Act of Parliament which became law in 1918 all women in Canada have the
right to vote in Dominion elections under the same conditions as men.
Women of twenty-one and over have the right to vote in the Provincial
elections of Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba,
and Nova Scotia.

What is the meaning of learning to be a good neighbour?

Let us take the cases of three Canadian girls. One lives in a country
neighbourhood, one belongs to a village, and the third is a city girl.
Each of them lives in a house on a road or street. Other houses in which
neighbours live are not far away. The city girl's next door neighbour is
close by; there is more space in the village; and where the country girl
lives everyone owns a farm so that there is abundance of room between one
neighbour and another.

The community in which she lives gives each of these girls certain good
things. It gives her the school where she is educated. The roads that lead
to different places where she needs to go are provided by the community.

When a great man