only its value as a public servant but its success.

The average girl holds the key to all situations touching the life of
girls. As the average girl becomes more efficient, finer in character,
broader in thought, more sound in body, mind and spirit, she raises
society with her; as she loses in efficiency, in power of thought and in
character, grows weaker in body, mind and spirit, she drags society down
with her.

What should she be like, this all-important average girl? What is she in
the ideal? I have asked scores of girls the question and the following
paragraph is their answer as well as my own.

The _ideal average_ girl is strong in body, is intelligent, believes in
God and strives to obey His laws. She is not afraid to work and she has
courage to meet hardships and loneliness if they come. She is interested
in pretty clothes, she wants them for herself, she has what she can
honestly afford and she spends time and takes pains to get the very best
she can for the money she has. She refuses to be extreme in style or to
make herself ridiculous or conspicuous. She likes fun, she enjoys
amusements and good times. She will not indulge in things of which her
parents heartily disapprove or which unfit her for work or study, and
which her own conscience tells her are doubtful. She loves friends and
companions and has as many as she can. She chooses carefully her
friends among the boys and men and lets neither word nor act lower in
the least degree their respect for her. She looks forward to the day
when she shall have a home of her own and fits herself to care for it
with intelligence and skill. She is honest, and faithful to the present
tasks. She is kindly, generous, helpful, cheerful, _just the sort of
girl one would like to live with every day_.