If a girl serves in such a community, it is because she has the parts of a pioneer--and few have.
It is not the girl who, having a home, yet is homeless, who is responsible for her situation.

Her necessity is to see herself acting as a responsible and useful factor in an intelligent plan.

If the family does not present itself to her as a grave, dignified undertaking on which several persons dear to her have embarked, how can she be expected to tie to it?
The old phrases which she may hear now and then--"the honor of the family"-- "duty to parents"-- only savor of cant to her.

They have no pricking vitality in them.

She gets no acute reaction from them.