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The Business of Being a Woman

CHAPTER VII
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She is driven outside in order to support herself.
I cannot but believe that here is one of the gravest weaknesses in our educational machinery, this failure to give the girl inclined to remain at home a training which would enable her to help make more of a limited income.

Nothing is so rare to-day as the fine habit of making much of little.

A dollar mixed with brains is worth five in every place where dollars are used.

Particularly is this true in the household.

The failure to teach how to mix brains and dollars, and to inspire respect for the undertaking, annually drives thousands of girls into our already overburdened industrial system who would be healthier and happier at home and who would render there a much greater economic service.


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