t in her own neighbourhood. If her home
is in the country she may arrange to supply a store or a number of
housekeepers in a neighbouring town, or she may help to form a circle and
work with other girls.

Selling flowers, choice fruit and poultry may be made money-making
occupations by either country or city girls. First, the girl should know
her specialty. She should not merely know something about it, but she
should make herself an absolute mistress of it. Her flowers should be fine
in quality and colour. They should be properly handled and properly packed.
To begin with, of course, they should be properly grown. Nothing is left to
accident in a successful business, and the home girl should see that she is
not in any way behind professional dealers in her line. If she is selling
hand-picked fruit, the people who buy from her should know that they will
receive only the best. Those who buy are willing to pay a higher price for
any specialty which is the best of its kind.

Girls whose interests are of a different character may find other paying
employments. To find the employment depends largely on the study of one's
capacity and one's neighbourhood. Is there any opening for a lending
library? Then the girl who is fond of books and reading and who understands
the average taste in reading, provided she can find a little capital, may
start a lending library. It is possible that there may be a library in the
neighbourhood which would be glad to engage her services a few hours in the
day. There are villages and country districts where a girl living at home
could make a success of a small library.

The girl with a turn for keeping accounts might become a visiting
bookkeeper. Doctors and dentists often have their accounts kept by someone
who is not altogether in their employ. A good business connection of this
kind might be worked up in a neighbourhood. Or a girl might answer the
dentist's or doctor's doorbell and telephone during certain hours in the
day. She could give attendance in his office at the same time. A girl is
often able to find employment for some hours a day in a store in the
neighbourhood of her home. A village store which is also the post office
may engage her as an assistant for part of the day.

Mothers in a suburban neighbourhood are often glad to have some girl at
home look after their children one or two afternoons in the week. To
undertake work of this character successfully the girl should be fond of