| inconsiderateness in causing unnecessary trouble to others |
| carelessness, causing waste or extra work |
| disorderliness, causing waste or worry or extra work |
| frequent tardiness at meals |
| disregarding the rules of the home, thus causing worry |
| forgetting (which usually means not caring) |
| losing things (which generally means culpable inattention) |
| showing a depressed will power (which means not caring enough) |
| tampering in the least with accurate statement, not rigorously preserving a habit of accuracy |
| tampering in the least with exact business relations, borrowing carelessly; borrowing money when it is not absolutely necessary; not making payment at the first possible moment |
| deflecting in the least from generous treatment in speech or act of companions especially of a rival or foe |
Expression of herself in manners
Self-control
| repose of manner, dignity, gentleness, quietness |
Tact
| quick perception of people's whims or foibles |
| avoidance of things that may give offense |
| ready adaptation to circumstances |
Atmosphere
| friendliness or cordiality; expressing enough but not too much; having a manner perfectly adapted to circumstances |
| cheer; a hopeful, buoyant spirit |
Voice
| quality, management of voice, sweetness, clearness |
| carrying power without harshness |
Speech
| use of English, good grammar, avoidance of crude language |
| precision in the use of the mother tongue, choice of words, use of idiom |
| a clear-cut enunciation |
Philosophy of life
| The will to live, a plucky spirit, a determination to win through, to succeed, to take the hazard and go ahead |
| A passion for perfection, for excellence in the result; not to give up until the end is gained and the product is as good as it can possibly be made |
| Artistic passion, the love of seeing things look well, of seeing harmony and proportion; love of music and pictures and all things beautiful; love for finding beauty in common things; interest in making oneself look always as beautiful as possible |
| Power and habit of reflection, philosophy, reasoning things out; the power to put two and two together, to see through a matter and find out why a thing is made in such a way and no other |
| Passion for truth for its own sake, for finding out what the underneath processes of nature are, for scientific investigation in the natural world about us |
| Power of growth - a teachable spirit, ability to take suggestions, and to act generously upon them; employment of means to maintain efficiency and perseverance in these efforts; ability to rise after failures and to strike in again with better knowledge |
Health
| Enthusiastic and persistent obedience to all the Code given in Chapter XIV, particularly as to bodily carriage, exercise, breathing, clothing, food and eating, elimination of waste, cleanliness, amount of sleep, rest, and prevention of illness |
| Willingness to make sacrifices in order to gain and to maintain a high state of bodily strength and efficiency |
Perfect relations with the various members of the family
| Attentive and affectionate relations with the father |
| Loving and helpful relations with the mother |
| Amiable and companionable relations with brothers (if nearly her own age) |
| Fair, responsive and tender relations with sisters (if nearly her own age) |
| Patient and inspirational relations with the younger children |
Community spirit
| Dependable and active relations with the church |
| Inquiring, critical, responsive relations with the school |
| Helpful working relations with the community societies and societies for young people |
| Cordial furtherance of any public work for betterment |
| A pure, self-sacrificing and noble influence among the village young people |
Definite preparation for her home that is to be
| The "hope-box" and what it should contain |
| A scheme for her house-plan and all its ideal details; the site, the appliances, the fittings and furniture, the decorations |
| Training in the business of the home |
| Training in the business of the farmstead |
| Training in the knowledge of child-life and child-psychology |
| Training in the laws governing the property of women |
Qualities for an efficient administrator of a household:
| Knowledge of the business and training for it either at home or in some school |
| Power to systematize work, to apportion out labor, and to keep accounts and make budgets; power to purchase and to save wisely |
| Ability to carry things through in a business-like way; courage to undertake things; ability to make both ends meet |
| Resourcefulness; ability to act promptly when things go wrong, to adapt oneself to changes, to show reserve in emergencies |
| Power to save time and avoid dawdling; to avoid unnecessary motions and waste of energy; to avoid unnecessary waste of materials |
| Passion for cleanliness in rooms, furniture, utensils, linen; passion for personal cleanliness |
| A real love of the work itself, a love to create good things; a love to see things done and to do them |
If you, dear Country Girl, will take a score card similar to this, go away by yourself and think it all over, then conscientiously take the examination, mark yourself on all the points honestly and fairly, desiring strongly to be just with yourself and to see yourself as you really are, there will perhaps come to you an illuminated hour when you will dare to set yourself down in the group called "meritorious" or in the next group called "not-quite-meritorious-but-almost." Perhaps, however, you may feel that you ought to descend into the group named "inferior" or even into the "deficient" class. But this attempt at self-examination will spur you to greater effort, whatever your decision. For if you must say "inferior" or "deficient," there is no doubt some reason for the lacks, and the examination will help you to find these and to strive earnestly to make up for them. And if you feel that you can honestly say "meritorious," you must remember that all good qualities are but the stepping-stones to higher struggle and that life affords us many more advanced degrees to which we may aspire.
The Country Girl's Score Card may afford an appreciation of how much the young woman in rural life means to her environment. That appreciation will only make you see the more clearly the claims that country life has upon you. For you must realize that there is one link in the chain of American life that the Country Girl alone can forge. If you fail, the chain must break; but if you do your allotted part, the chain will be one of those that Milton loves to sing about, that bind the whole round earth about the throne of God.
INDEX
A
Abbott, E., 94.
Addams, Jane, 10.
Agricultural Department. See U. S. Agr. Dep't.
Agricultural College of Conn., 202, 237, 238.
Amusement, recreation, 27, 30, 34, 50, 63, 64, 66, 67, 79, 291-302.
B
Barton, Clara, 10.
Bates, K. L., 338.
Beecher family, 215.
Beecher, Catherine, 292.
Bible, 20, 72, 269, 302; source of plots, 302.
Book exchange. See Clubs.
Books. See Reading.
Brainerd, David, 317.
Breathing, correct, 176.
Bureau of Animal Industry, 250.
Bureau of Chemistry, 250.
Bureau of Plant Industry, 55, 250.
Budget, 186 f, 192, 195-204, 223.
C
Canning in the home, 42.
Camp Fire Girls, 63, 64, 169, 321, 331-340.
Card catalog, 158.
Chase, L. G., 200.
Chemistry in household, 166.
Chicago, University of, 238.
Children in farm home, 38, 39, 56, 184, 214-216.
Christian Endeavor Society, 63, 64, 325.
Church Periodical Club, 56.
City: precautions, 346, 347; occupations in, 348; exodus to, 20, 66, 80, 81, 181.
Clothing. See Dress.
Clubs: canning, 54, 55, 189-191; book exchange, 271. See also Organisations.
College girls, work of, for Country Girl, 324.
Columbia University, 237.
Commission on Country Life, 3, 173.
Community spirit, 30, 43, 51, 56, 65, 67, 118, 119, 129, 216, 313, 354.
Comstock, Sarah, author "The Soddy," 94.
Congress of Farm Women, 321.
Conservation, 188.
Cooperative Agricultural Extension, Bill for, 244.
Cornell University, 187, 236, 238.
Correspondence basis of the work, 26.
Correspondence courses, 238.
Country Girl: as a class, 5; number of, in U. S., 7; wide extent, 9; in gainful occupations, 10; happiness in rural life, 9, 19, 36; experiences quoted, 33-82, 87-95, 102, 109, 112-120; as farmer, 9, 111; distinguished women, 10, 11; as homemaker of future, 25; character, 26, 30, 183; passion for independence, 29, 49; love for country, 26, 61; needs, 66; inheritance, 85; share in housework, 101, 102; relations with mother, 103-105; social life on farm, 118, 255 f; magnitude of her task, 150; wage, 181-192; opportunity, 211; barriers to her progress, 211; place in evolution, 207, 208; duty to country, 216, 343-348; going to the city, precautions, 346, 347; attitude of family toward, 353; importance of her status, 4, 17, 20, 87, 355. See also Earning, Finance, Spiritual aspects.
Country life movement, 3, 15, 16, 224.
Country life in: New England, 61, 200; New Hampshire, 111; New York, 34, 41, 111; South, 46 f, 189, 198, 243; South Dakota, 119; Porto Rico, 263, 264; Philippines, 263, 264; Alaska, 263, 264; western, 65, 109, 196; Northwest, 33, 37, 65.
Country life, favorable view, 26, 65, 70; influence on health, 28; misunderstood by urban people, 28; nearness to nature, 29; influence on poetic genius, 274; opportunities, 243-251; love of animals, 27; spiritual aspects, 27, 28; influence on home life, 29; an optimistic report, 37.
Country life, unfavorable view, 49, 61, 66, 75-82, 85, 86, 99, 109, 110. See also City, exodus to.
Crew, H. C., 98, 136, 266, 278.
D
Dishwashing, 151, 152. See Equipment.
Drama. See Play.
E
Earning, 53, 64, 66, 68, 78, 182, 190-192, 195; spending, 68, 183, 187; bookkeeping, 161; parents' right to child's earnings, 182; wage of daughter, 181-192; daughter's share in farm, 184. See Occupations, Budgets, Finances.
Eberstadt, S., 206.
Economic position of farm woman. See Finances, Earning.
Education, training, 44, 54, 64, 69, 134, 147, 164, 165, 188, 231-239, 243; instruction at farm home, 248; a four years' course, 238; courses of study, 236-238.
Educational Alliance, 321.
Efficiency, 50, 123 f, 139-142, 147, 151-153, 157 f, 189, 192, 203, 204, 351-354. See Equipment.
Eight Weeks Clubs, 324. See Y. W. C. A.
Epworth League, 325.
Equipment, 66, 126, 129, 131-134, 137-143.
Exercise, 176.
F
Family. See Children, Farm home, Family life.
Family council, 184. See also Farm home.
Family life on farm, 33, 38, 39, 160.
Farm Bureau Agent, 249.
Farm home: wife, 79, 87, 91-95, 222; mother, 39, 103-105, 123; children, 214 f; council, 184; family records, 160-163; social life in home, 42; Sunday in, 40. See also Efficiency, Equipment, Children, Farm home work.
Farm home work: service in farm, 139; housework a wage-earning work, 192; housework as exercise, 170; daughter's share in work, 101, 102; system in work, 192; optimistic view of, 44; overwork, 37, 78, 80, 81, 91; laundry work on farm, 37. See also Efficiency, Earning, Finances.
Farm housework, routine of, 12-14, 33-82.
Farmsteads in U. S., number of, 16.
Finances of farm home, 53, 91, 115, 161, 195; training for right use of money, 54, 181; daughter's share in profits, 183; business of farm, 222; as farm partner, 221; woman's part essential to farm, 222; house accounts, 223-226; adaptation for accounting, 227; cost of living, 53.
Fireless cooker, 126.
Fiske, Professor G. W., 100, 254.
Foote, Roxana Beecher, 89.
Foote, Abigail, 91.
Freeman, Alice E., 9.
G
Girls' Athletic League, 321.
Girls' Friendly Society, 321.
Girls' Protective League, 321.
Girls' Tomato Club, 55.
Gleason, Miss Caroline, 200.
Goldmark, Miss J., 171.
Good Templars, 321.
H
Harden, Miss Myrtle, 190.
Health, 169-177, 212, 353; of city child, 174, 175, 216; code of health rules, 175 f.
N
National Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild, 55.
Nearing, Professor Scott, 188.
Newspapers. See Periodicals.
O
Occupations on farm: old time industries, 91-95; wage-earning pursuits, 68, 189; standardizing woman's labor, 188; chickens, 41, 43; household industries, 91-95; teaching, 66, 68; nursing and other occupations, 348.
Office of Public Roads, 251.
Orderliness, 157 f.
P
Pageantry, 305-313; at Thetford, Vt., 306; at St Johnsbury, Vt., 307; at North Adams, Mass., 308. See also Community spirit.
Parentage. See Children.
Pennsylvania State College, 54, 238.
Penny Magazine, 156.
Pioneering period, 5, 109, 120.
Poetry in country life, 273.
Porter, Mrs. G. S., 279.
Pratt, Miss Caroline, 198, 199.
R
Reading, 34, 36, 38, 43, 49-52, 54, 62, 67, 68, 70, 79, 215, 267-275; reading aloud, 272.
Records, household, 160-163. See also Card catalog.
Rest and health, 177.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 122, 146, 150.
Rural group, 16.
Rural village defined, 174.
S
Schools, 67.
Scientific management. See Efficiency.
Score card for country girl, 351-355.
Shaw, Dr. Albert, 109.
Smith-Lever Bill, 244 f.
Sodality of the Children of Mary, 321.
Spending and saving. See Earning.
Spiritual aspects, 206.
Stewart, Elinore Rupert, 115-117.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 10, 280, 336.
Suicide, 259.