PART II.  GUIDING GIRLS TOWARD THE IDEAL

   V. The educational agencies involved 75

  VI.  Training the little child 86

 VII.  Teaching the mechanics of housekeeping 102

VIII.  THE GIRL’S INNER LIFE 122

  IX.  The adolescent girl 130

   X. The girl’s work 151

  XI.  The girl’s work (Continued)—­classification
        of occupations 163

 XII.  The girl’s work (Continued)—­vocations as
        affecting homemaking 194

XIII.  The girl’s work (Continued)—­vocations
        determined by training 203

 XIV.  Marriage 218

Suggested Readings 241

The Index 243

A LIST OF THE PORTRAITS

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Louisa M. Alcott 221

RUTH MCENERY STUART 223

LOUISE HOMER AND HER FAMILY 225

MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON 227

COLONEL AND MRS. ROOSEVELT WITH MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILY 229

JULIA WARD HOWE AND HER GRANDDAUGHTER 231

CAROLINE BARTLETT CRANE 233

ALICE FREEMAN PALMER 235

AMELIA E. BARR 237

A FOREWORD

Fortunate are we to have from the pen of Mrs. Dickson a book on the vocational guidance of girls.  Mrs. Dickson has the all-round life experiences which give her the kind of training needed for a broad and sympathetic approach to the delicate, intricate, and complex problems of woman’s life in the swiftly changing social and industrial world.

Mrs. Dickson was a teacher for seven years in the grades in the city of New York.  She then became the partner of a superintendent of schools in the business of making a home.  In these early homemaking years there came from the pen of Mrs. Dickson a series of historical books for the grades which have placed her among the leading educational writers of the country.  During the long sickness of her husband she filled for a while two administrative positions—­homemaker and superintendent of schools.