s in various ways. A girl may help her people to
buy a house, sometimes with a garden attached. This is a good investment in
most circumstances. The girl should take an interest in the garden and help
to grow vegetables and flowers. Possibly the garden lot may be large enough
for poultry as well as vegetables. Or the girl's family may live outside
the city, in which case a good part of the food for the household may be
produced in the garden. It was one of the glories of Belgium before the war
that many of her wage-earners lived in the country and grew a good part of
their own food. They kept hens and pigs; and there was almost no
unemployment or destitution in Belgium.

The girl who saves generally begins with a bank account and should learn to
understand banking. The Canadian Government has an advantageous system of
annuities which offers young investors an excellent return for them money.
Girls and boys alike should study these annuities. Life insurance is a
helpful form of investment for those who have dependents. The girl at work
should not put her savings into speculative investments. Business men of
the best standing say it is pathetic to see the waste of girls' savings in
unwise investments. One of the best investments a girl can make is to
continue her education.

CHAPTER XXV

HEALTH

Health has more to do with our successful employment than most of us have
yet realized. To prove that this is true a woman who is an employment
expert told the following story:

"The other night I was sitting in my office waiting for a girl who could
not come to see me in the daytime. The manager of a business house who
was interested in the girl had asked me if I would advise her how to change
her work from one employment which she liked fairly well to another in
which she was greatly interested. I had formed no particular idea of what
the girl would be like. My day had been full and I had had no time to
consider her case, knowing only that she wanted to change her work, and
that she was a girl who was already earning her living.

"She came in, looked at me with a straight, steady glance and offered me
her hand with a simplicity which took no note of the fact that an older
person is supposed usually to make the first advance. The fact that we
shook hands gave me an opportunity to notice that her hand was neither
nervous nor tremulous. The quality of her handclasp can be summed up in
saying that it was reassuring and