rl, just as a soldier needs
training, because he is a soldier.

First, the girl ought to know how to keep well. Good health is a precious
possession, and we may have a great deal to do with whether we are strong
and healthy or weak and half-ill most of the time. If the girl is to be a
home-maker, she needs good health. What a sad place a home is if the
home-maker is a constant sufferer! If the girl is in a shop, a factory, an
office, a telephone exchange, a school, or a hospital, unless she is a
reasonably healthy girl her success in her work is greatly lessened, if
indeed it is possible for her to succeed at all. If she is an actress or
an artist, she undergoes a constant strain on her nervous energy. Artists
and actresses need good health, possibly more so even than the average
woman in paid employment. So, no matter what the girl is to do, she should
be healthy.

But she requires certain definite kinds of knowledge, so that she may know
how to keep well. The first is knowing what to eat. There is scarcely
anything that interferes more with the health and success of the girl
worker than ignorance of what is nutritious food. A woman who is very fond
of girls who work and who knows hundreds of them, said once that she would
like to give every girl she knew this knowledge about food. There is no way
of acquiring it except by learning. Our ideal girl will learn food values
and how food should be prepared. Every girl in the world, no matter who she
is, is better off for this knowledge. It is part of the foundation of good
health. The girl in business requires a special warning to be sure that her
luncheon gives her sufficient nourishment for her work.

In order to be healthy, girls must know, also, how to dress. This should
include some knowledge of the making of clothing, how to cut out, and how
to sew, and also some skill in mending and re-modelling. Looking into the
future for the well-being of our ideal girl, we see that her appearance as
well as her health depends not a little on her skill as a wise buyer and
maker of clothing. Her early income as a worker is not likely to be large.
It may be very small. It will need all her skill to make the best use of
this income.

In order to acquire skill in the management of food and clothing and so
ensure her health, a girl must understand the management of money. Some day
she will have the spending of an income. Either she will earn the income in
paid employment, or it will