taken to heart the problem of
the Country Girl. Two of the hand bills of the Association show how they
feel about the Country Girl and what she needs and what she may have if
she will take the right means.

THE GIRL IN THE COUNTRY

"_Where the wide earth yields_
_Her beauties of fruit and grain._"

If the country is to continue to produce not only the food but the
hardiest young men and women, and much of the idealism and best
leadership of the nation,

Life MUST be made

_Less Solitary_
_More Comfortable_
_More Attractive_
_Freer from Drudgery_
_Happier and_
_Fuller of Opportunity_

For the 21,000,000 girls and women on the farms and in the villages!

Solving the Rural Problem

Through

The Country Young Women's Christian Association.

It brings to the girls in the country and small towns

The opportunity of self-development and self-expression
The chance to work and play with other girls
Higher social standards
Spiritual growth and Christian ideals
Contact with a world-wide organization
A community consciousness.

These girls give back to their community

Trained leadership
Joyful, rich, vivid lives
Improved economic conditions for women
Consecrated homes
Christian spirit in work and play
Cooperation.

The Young Women's Christian Association feels that it is its "privilege
to reach the Country Girls in terms of their own environment, helping
them to help themselves and to become active social forces in their own
communities."

Pursuing this thought, the wonderful idea was hit upon of using the
available energy of the Country Girl that goes away to college as she
returns to her home full of inspiration for a "career." The career of
being a good angel to her home community is offered to her.

[Illustration: One of the many Eight Weeks' Clubs organized throughout
the country by the Y. W. C. A.]

Carrying out this purpose with energy and great enthusiasm, as they do
everything they take up, the Y. W. C. A. instituted a special section of
their work which they called the "Eight Weeks Club." Under this scheme,
in the late winter or early spring, trained secretaries who are able to
give time and strength to the work and who are touched with the flame of
that character-contagion, are sent out to the colleges. Preparation
classes are formed among these girls, schemes are marked out for the
summer, and a suggested plan of study printed for them in the
Asso