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The Girl and Her Religion by Margaret Slattery
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Every college knows her. She resists the petty sins of college life. She
banishes jealousy and self-assertion. Snobbishness she will not
tolerate. She seeks no honors save those fairly won. Keen, alert, pure
and true, capable of sacrifice and hard tasks, sympathetic with all
need, a lover of true sport and real fun she represents the college girl
of high ideals.

Every factory has her among its operatives. A good worker doing honest
work, refusing to allow the stain of coarse jests to touch her, or the
temptations which come with low wages and great fatigue to enter her
life. Again and again she has revealed her ideals in moments of disaster
and death. It is hard to find words to express one's admiration for the
factory girl as she holds to her high ideals.

Many a kitchen knows her. Neat, clean, honest, capable, happy in her
work, resisting all the temptations that come through loneliness and
deadly routine, she clings to her ideals with courage.

Every set in society knows her; turning her back upon temptations to
excess, vanity, pride, scorning all forms of gossip, neither listening
to, nor repeating the words that "they" say, she keeps her mind and
heart fixed upon the undimmed ideals she has set for herself.

Many a schoolroom and office know her, the girl who does her best work
though no one sees and none commend, refusing to lower her ideals in
obedience to subtile suggestions or definite temptations; a girl who
does what is expected of her and more, who puts her heart into her work
and glorifies it.

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