The American Country Girl. An abundance of sunshine, fresh air, good water, and healthful exercise in the open permit wonderful young life to reach its highest development |
The Country Girl is the life of the home. She is a companion for the parents and a playmate for the little brothers and sisters |
The Country Girl and Her Pets. "The quietness of the country permits a greater spiritual and mental growth, with its abundance of life, plant and animal, which challenges the mind to discover its secrets" |
The Country Girl takes a pride in her chickens that makes their care a pleasure to her |
The Inheritance. The Country Girl, working cheerfully beside her mother, will learn much that will be of value to her in her effort to make the housework of to-day a joy and not a burden |
A happy homesteader in front of her "soddy." The vastness of the country does not daunt her. She learns to love the quiet, broken only by the roar of a river at the bottom of a canyon or the howl of a coyote on the great sandy flats |
A Knitting Class at an Agricultural School. Note the splendid poise of the Country Girl in the background—how naturally and yet perfectly she is holding herself |
This Tennessee girl is a member of a Gardening and Canning Club. She won the cow and calves as premiums for having the best exhibit at the State Fair |
Springtime in the country. City children may well envy their little country cousins the free life in the open and the companionship with animals |
A lesson in household economics, at Cornell University |
Children in a country school scoring corn. Everywhere the country is responding to the call of Progress, and these members of a new generation are striving to reach the best |
The swiftly awakening artistic energies of the Country Girl are finding an outlet in the new national interest in pageantry. The farm, meadow or field makes an ideal stage |
One of the many Eight Weeks Clubs organized throughout the country by the Y. W. C. A. |
This photograph of a Camp Fire Girl shows the opportunity country life affords for good sport |
A school garden where the children are taught to love and understand the growing things as well as to cultivate them |