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Show COUNTRY CMS IN THE (ITYJ 2 Every autumn hundreds: of country girls leave their homes and go to the city to try their fortunes, says a -writer of experience. Those with college educations, ed-ucations, fitted for teaching or trained for some special line of work may fall into pleasant ways, but the unhappy majority serving In shops and factories, fac-tories, standing behind counters eight hours of the twenty-four, do not have an enjoyable life by any means. Suppose Sup-pose they had remained at home in the quiet village, where they thought there i was nothing to do and had taken np dressmaking as a trade, worked the garden, raised flowers or studied bee culture and had gone in the society of the town where each one stands on his own merits and the lines of caste are not so closely drawn as in a city; would they not have been better oft after all? The country may lack the feverish glare and excitement of the city, but its pleasures are more wholesome and of a more enduring kind. The country coun-try girl earning her way in a village has more liberty than the saleswoman of the city store earning $10 a week. The country girl gets her holiday whenever she wants it. She is not obliged ob-liged to pay $2 a week for carfare and luncheons or spend all her hours in noisy streets, where the din of passing traffic makes it necessary to shout In order that she may be heard. She does not live in vC cheap 'boarding-house, ' but sits at a generous table spread with a bountiful country fare, and when she passes down the street friends greet her on every side. Yes, the country-bred girl gets a bad bargain bar-gain when she leaves home for the city. |