freedom is one of the
greatest glories of the twentieth century. But with freedom comes
responsibility, and under these changed conditions every girl should
have a definite aim.

Dr. Hall says that the world has urgent need of "girls who are mother's
right hand; girls who can cuddle the little ones next best to mamma,
and smooth out the tangles in the domestic skein when thing's get
twisted; girls whom father takes comfort in for something better than
beauty, and the big brothers are proud of for something that outranks
the ability to dance or shine in society. Next, we want girls of
sense,--girls who have a standard of their own, regardless of
conventionalities, and are independent enough to live up to it; girls
who simply won't wear a trailing dress on the street to gather up
microbes and all sorts of defilement; girls who don't wear a high hat
to the theater, or lacerate their feet and endanger their health with
high heels and corsets; girls who will wear what is pretty and becoming
and snap their fingers at the dictates of fashion when fashion is
horrid and silly. And we want good girls,--girls who are sweet, right
straight out from the heart to the lips; innocent and pure and simple
girls, with less knowledge of sin and duplicity and evil-doing at
twenty than the pert little schoolgirl of ten has all too often. And
we want careful girls and prudent girls, who think enough of the
generous father who toils to maintain them in comfort, and of the
gentle mother who denies herself much that they may have so many pretty
things, to count the cost and draw the line between the essentials and
non-essentials; girls who strive to save and not to spend; girls who
are unselfish and eager to be a joy and a comfort in the home rather
than an expense and a useless burden. We want girls with
hearts,--girls who are full of tenderness and sympathy, with tears that
flow for other people's ills, and smiles that light outward their own
beautiful thoughts. We have lots of clever girls, and brilliant girls,
and witty girls. Give us a consignment of jolly girls, warm-hearted
and impulsive girls; kind and entertaining to their own folks, and with
little desire to shine in the garish world. With a few such girls
scattered around, life would freshen up for all of us, as the weather
does under the spell of summer showers."

"They talk about a woman's sphere,
As though it had a limit;
There's not a place in earth or heaven,