Vocational Guidance for Girls

Vocational Guidance for Girls

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Title: Vocational Guidance for Girls
Author: Marguerite Stockman Dickson
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+-------------------------------------------------------+ | | | OTHER
VOCATIONAL | | GUIDANCE BOOKS | | | | J. ADAMS PUFFER,
Editor | | | | _VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE--THE TEACHER AS A
COUNSELOR_ | | By J. Adams Puffer | | | | A VOCATIONAL READER
| | By C. Park Pressey | | | | VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE FOR THE
PROFESSIONS | | By Edwin Tenney Brewster | | |
+-------------------------------------------------------+

"Vocational guidance seeks the largest realization of the possibilities of
every child and youth, measured in terms of worthy service."
[Illustration: Photograph by Brown Bros. CAMP FIRE GIRLS The
lessons of patriotism, kindness, and industry taught by the Camp Fire
Girls' organization make it a power for good]

VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE FOR GIRLS
by
MARGUERITE STOCKMAN DICKSON
Author of From the Old World to the New, _A Hundred Years of
Warfare. 1689-1789_, Stories of Camp and Trail, Pioneers and
Patriots in American History Rand Mcnally & Company Chicago New
York
1919

THE CONTENTS
PAGE A Foreword ix

PART I. PRESENT-DAY IDEALS OF
WOMANHOOD

CHAPTER I.
WOMAN'S PLACE IN SOCIETY 3
II. THE IDEAL HOME 18
III. ESTABLISHING A HOME 27
IV. RUNNING THE DOMESTIC MACHINERY 49

PART II. GUIDING GIRLS TOWARD
THE IDEAL

V. THE EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES INVOLVED 75
VI. TRAINING THE LITTLE CHILD 86
VII. TEACHING THE MECHANICS OF HOUSEKEEPING 102
VIII. THE GIRL'S INNER LIFE 122
IX. THE ADOLESCENT GIRL 130
X. THE GIRL'S WORK 151
XI. THE GIRL'S WORK (Continued)--CLASSIFICATION OF
OCCUPATIONS 163
XII. THE GIRL'S WORK (Continued)--VOCATIONS AS
AFFECTING HOMEMAKING 194
XIII. THE GIRL'S WORK (Continued)--VOCATIONS
DETERMINED BY TRAINING 203
XIV. MARRIAGE 218
Suggested Readings 241
The Index 243

A LIST OF THE PORTRAITS
PAGE LOUISA M. ALCOTT 221
RUTH MCENERY STUART 223
LOUISE HOMER AND HER FAMILY 225
MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON 227
COLONEL AND MRS. ROOSEVELT WITH MEMBERS OF THEIR
FAMILY 229
JULIA WARD HOWE AND HER GRANDDAUGHTER 231
CAROLINE BARTLETT CRANE 233
ALICE FREEMAN PALMER 235

AMELIA E. BARR 237

A FOREWORD
Fortunate are we to have from the pen of Mrs. Dickson a book on the
vocational guidance of girls. Mrs. Dickson has the all-round life
experiences which give her the kind of training needed for a broad and
sympathetic approach to the delicate, intricate, and complex problems
of woman's life in the swiftly changing social and industrial world.
Mrs. Dickson was a teacher for seven years in the grades in the city of
New York. She then became the partner of a superintendent of schools
in the business of making a home. In these early homemaking years
there came from the pen of Mrs. Dickson a series of historical books
for the grades which have placed her among the leading educational
writers of the country. During the long sickness of her husband she
filled for a while two administrative positions--homemaker and
superintendent of schools.
Her three children are now in high school and are beginning to plan for
their own life work. With the broad training of homemaker, wife,
mother, teacher, writer, and administrator, Mrs. Dickson has the
combination of experiences to enable her to introduce teachers and
mothers to the very difficult problems of planning wisely big life
careers for our girls.
The book is so plainly and guardedly written that it can also be used as
a textbook for the girls themselves in connection with civic and
vocational courses. The only difficulty with the book for a text is that it
is so attractively written on such vital problems that the student will not
stop reading at the end of the lesson.
J. ADAMS PUFFER

"Vocational guidance has for its ideal the granting to every individual
of the chance to attain his highest efficiency under the best conditions it
is humanly possible to provide."

PART I
PRESENT-DAY IDEALS OF WOMANHOOD

"How to preserve to the individual his right to aspire, to make of
himself what he will, and at the same time find himself early,
accurately, and with certainty, is the problem of vocational guidance."