Excerpt from The American Girl In the lives of the great mass of girls no dra matic changes of circumstances or fortune ever come; but they are doing all sorts of useful things beyond their obvious duty of being decent to their parents and, later, good wives and mothers. All over the country, in the big cities, small towns and even villages the American girl (perhaps she is young and perhaps she is middle aged) is working gratuitously for the health, beauty and general welfare of her community. She is a leader in work for children, in modern charity and in movements for civic improvement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.