ould
be awakened and trained to think, her will to act and to control and all
her sense of reverence, wonder and worship developed while her love for
the good and the beautiful, the heroic and self-sacrificing was
stimulated.

But homes are not ideal and the majority have neither accepted nor
considered deeply the task of preparing the _whole_ girl for life. Some
prepare her physically and let the rest of the triad develop as it will.
Some prepare her mentally and morally while both body and spirit suffer.
Some seek to prepare her spiritually by fitting on as a sort of garment
what they believe to be religion while body and mind receive little
attention and some let all three develop as convenience and chance may
dictate.

When men's consciences have been awakened and they find the home
incapable or inert, they have turned the responsibility over to the
public school and the church. Of late civic forces have given their aid.
Those directly interested in the religious training of the girl are
coming to agree that these three agencies are needed and that they must
work _together_ if the whole girl is to be helped.

_Some one_ must teach a girl the things about herself that she ought to
know. That some one is her mother. No one else can do it with the same
power. Neither church nor school can perform well the delicate task of
revealing life's secrets, and blundering is deadly. But church and
school and civic forces together can help the mother, can give her a
proper conception of her duty, give her the words to say, perhaps. The
school can teach morals and keep its own moral standards high; the
church can awaken the spiritual life of a girl and nurture it, that
knowledge and high ideals may work together to fortify and strengthen
her. The civic forces can see to it that the girl has the opportunity
for pure physical enjoyment, for mental stimulation and moral uplift.

What civic forces have been able to do through tuberculosis exhibitions
and child welfare exhibits, by showing parents the truth regarding the
importance of the physical care of their girls, furnishes encouragement
to go further. Good newspapers may speak to parents untouched by the
school and out of touch with the church and have done so. The majority
of parents when they see and believe will act.

There was a time, and not long since, when those engaged in teaching
religion were not concerned with the number of hours the girl worked,
the age at which