s during her first years of paid employment may not require much
skill or experience, but her living conditions require all the specialized
woman's knowledge that training can give her.

To bring about in the life of a girl a satisfactory connection between
paid employment and home-making, and to show the home employments in
their rightful place as occupations of the first importance, are necessary
objectives in any book of this character.

When considering the employments of to-day as part of their own lives,
girls of the twentieth century may well look back through the long ages
to women's work in the past.[1] The study of anthropology appears to
indicate that in primeval ages women began the textile industry and,
possibly, agriculture. There seems to be no doubt that they were primitive
architects, and that they tamed some of the smaller domestic animals. They
had most to do with the preparation of food and may have introduced the
use of herbs and medicines. They were spinners, weavers, upholsterers,
and sail-makers. Most of these employments were taken up by men and
specialized and developed almost past imagination. It is evident that
women have always worked, and worked hard. If they had not done so, the
race would not have reached its present position, and women themselves
would have remained undeveloped, without a realization of their own
possibilities.

The history of Anglo-Saxon times shows women engaged in spinning, weaving,
dyeing, and embroidering, carrying on these industrial arts in the home,
side by side with the work of the house. The work of women in home
manufactures was a by-industry, not occupying the worker's whole time, but
nevertheless an important occupation. Later, women were employed in many
kinds of industrial work as assistants to their husbands and fathers. It is
doubtful if wages were paid for such work. Employment of this kind is not
to be thought of merely as a romantic or picturesque accompaniment of home
life. Houses and comforts centuries back were not such as they are to-day;
and the work of women was toil, side by side with men who toiled also.

The modern factory did not originate industrial work. The factory carried
many industries away from the home where they had originated; and women
followed their work to large establishments where they were trained to
work collectively. The statement can be made with truth that machinery
has made it possible for women to perform work for whi