It is a high average, yes, it is _ideal_. But the fact that so many
girls are seeking that ideal, that so many against fearful odds are
pressing toward it, and that so many little by little are achieving it
fills one with hope. The fact that so many men and women who but a few
years ago were not concerned with either the needs or rights of a girl
are bending every energy to the task of setting her free from the things
that burden her, hold her back and make her suffer, fills one with
anticipation, for the things which touch the average girl are the things
which concern all who have great hopes and dreams for the future of our
land.

This chapter and all the chapters preceding are an appeal to the average
girl and those who love her to summon all their strength and raise the
standard of the average.

Let the average girl be the highest possible average, realizing the
important place she holds in the working out of all problems of right,
justice and public welfare and knowing that God must have had great
faith in the power and possibility of the average girl else He would not
have trusted so much to her keeping.

The world is grateful for the brilliant girl, for the gifted, the
talented, the beautiful; but without the average girl it could not live.
God bless her and give us more and better.




PART II