le ever given to the world for being a good neighbour
is contained in the story of the Good Samaritan. The more we study that
story, the better we will understand our duties to our neighbours and
the community.

Women and girls should be specially interested in such questions as
education and the training of children, in public health and safety and
public justice, in markets and everything having to do with the food
supply, and in the proper treatment of immigrants. The nation cannot do
its best unless girls and women help by being good neighbours and citizens
in all these and other matters.

Perhaps the most valuable possession that any girl has is her character.
The honest, kind, likeable girl, who keeps her word and is a good friend,
is valued by everyone who knows her. The character of a nation is not
unlike the character of the individual. We love our country. We would give
her the best service. The best we can do for her is to make her national
character honest, kind, strong, helpful and lovable. Every individual in a
nation has a civic duty and responsibility to make that nation a good
neighbour.

A Canadian woman of seventy years said once to a younger woman who was a
professional worker, "My dear, tell me about the hospital where you are
working. I have heard that conditions are not all they should be. I want
to know, because if I know I may be able to help in making what is wrong
right." She was a quiet, gentle woman, charming in manner, and somewhat
shy and reserved. She never talked about disagreeable things. On this
occasion she believed it was her duty to make sure whether there was a
wrong, and if there was to try to put it right. No one ever heard anything
said about this matter in public, but after some time the management of
one public institution was greatly improved. Age, experience and wisdom
can help in these wonderful ways. Girls may learn from such women.

We learn best to be good citizens in our own homes. Study public affairs
and community questions with your father and mother, brothers and sisters.

Those who read Queen Victoria's Letters, which have been published, notice
that in her girlhood she was a simple, gentle, innocent girl, not specially
clever, but eager to learn, resolved that everything in the government of
her country should be explained to her so that she might understand it.
It was her duty to know the details of that great government, and she was
determined, no matter wha