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We do not need to be told to remember the happy and easy experiences of life.  No girl forgets them.  What we do need is some one to tell us where the hard places will be, to warn us, to stiffen our courage and to point clearly to the uses of hard work and adversity.  And although this may seem like placing another straw on the poor camel’s back, it is now time to say that in her life-work, whether it be in her home or outside, a girl should be very clear in her mind what her aims and purposes are.  If she is working solely for the praise and commendation of others, she will often be grievously disappointed.  Not in recognition does real reward lie, but in the work itself.  If she wins great popularity she is likely to find that there is nothing that shifts so quickly and is such a quicksand.  If material wealth is her sole object she will harden into the thing she seeks and add but another joyless barbarian to a modern world congratulating itself that barbarism is a thing of the past, and yet presenting the spectacle of a mammon worship such as has never been seen before.  If gold is her end, and not the means to a nobler end, then she will find herself constantly sacrificing higher issues to that, and lowering her one-time ideals.  Truly the woman who marries solely for the comforts of a home, the woman who teaches, or nurses for “pay” alone, has her reward, and that is in self-destruction.  She is a carrier of barbarism, not of culture; of disease, not of health; of tribulation, not of joy.  The only real reward there can be lies in the idealism, the joy, the strength of the work done and in a mind and heart conscious of having done their best.

THE END

JOHN T. FARIS Author “Winning Their Way.”

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