15.--What is the modern opportunity for women in rural religious leadership, and what sort of a woman could succeed as a country pastor?

16.--What do you think of the opening for village librarians and "neighborhood house" workers?

17.--In what details do country homes need expert leadership in household economics and domestic science?

18.--Compare the demonstration centers of rural culture which you have known with the ill.u.s.tration described in this chapter.

19.--What do you think of the work of the County Work secretary of the Young Women's Christian a.s.sociation?

20.--What other opportunities for service in rural communities come to college women in country homes?

APPENDIX

APPENDIX

A Cla.s.sified Bibliography

Suggested collateral readings for further study in connection with the topics treated in each chapter of this book.

I. THE RURAL PROBLEM

_Its Development and Present Urgency_

Bailey, L. H., pp. 31-43 in "The Country Life Movement."

b.u.t.terfield, K. L., "The Rural Problem," chapter 1 in "The Country Church and the Rural Problem."

b.u.t.terfield, K. L., "Problems of Progress," chapter 2 in "Chapters in Rural Progress."

Anderson, W. L., "The Rural Partnership with Cities," chapter 2, in "The Country Town."

Anderson, W. L., "The Extent of Rural Depletion," chapter 3, in same.

Anderson, W. L., "Local Degeneracy," chapter 5, in same.

Roads, Charles, "Rural Christendom," chapters 3, 4 and 5.

Gillette, J. M., "Conditions and Needs of Country Life," pp. 3-11 in "Country Life."[46]

Hartman, E. T., "Village Problems and Characteristics," pp. 234-243 in same.[46]

Hibbard, B. H., "Farm Tenancy in the United States," pp. 29-39 in same.[46]

Cance, A. E., "Immigrant Rural Communities," pp. 69-80 in same.[46]

Plunkett, Sir Horace, "The Rural Life Problem in the United States."

chapters 3-4.

II. COUNTRY LIFE OPTIMISM

_Rural Resources and the Country Life Movement_

Bailey, L. H., "Why Boys Leave the Farm" and "Why Persons Take to Farming," pp. 89-136 in "The Training of Farmers."

Bailey, L. H., "Country and City," chapter 2 in "The Outlook to Nature."

b.u.t.terfield, K. L., "The Solution of the Rural Problem," chapter 2 in "The Country Church and the Rural Problem."

Anderson, W. L., chapters 4, 6, 8, 11 and 12, in "The Country Town."

Carver, T. N., "Shall Rural People Set Their Own Standards?" pp. 370-4 in "Principles of Rural Economics."

Roads, Charles, "Present Relations of City and Country" and "A Great Future for Rural Districts," chapters 2 and 7 in "Rural Christendom."

Ogden, H., "Vital Statistics of Rural Life," chapter 1 in "Rural Hygiene."

Plunkett, Sir H., chapter 7 in "The Rural Life Problem of the United States."

Roosevelt, T., "Rural Life," in "The Outlook" for Aug. 27, 1910.

True, A. C., "The U. S. Dept. of Agriculture," pp. 100-109 in "Country Life."

Bailey, L. H., "The College of Agriculture and the State," pp. 219-263 in "The Training of Farmers."

Powell, E. P., "How to Live in the Country."

Washington, B. T., "How Denmark Has Taught Itself Prosperity and Happiness," in "The World's Work" for June, 1911.

III. THE NEW RURAL CIVILIZATION

_Factors That are Making a New World in the Country_

Kern, O. J., "The New Country Life," chapter 1 in "Among Country Schools."

Roads, Charles, "A Great Future for Country Districts," chapter 7, in "Rural Christendom."

Anderson, W. L., "New Factors," chapter 13 in "The Country Town."

Carver, T. N., "The Factors of Agricultural Production," chapter 3 in "Principles of Rural Economics," (also important paragraphs in chapter 2).