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way to get desirable results is by wide-spread education, rather than by 

 waiting for any possible change in our industrial system. 



With an increased training in efficiency of women for home industry 

 there can be expected less discontent with unsatisfactory conditions and 

 consequently less divorce. The unity of the home will thus be 

 strengthened and there will result improved conditions for the de- 

 velopment of efficient personality. 



Thus could be brought together through the necessity of woman's 

 preparing food in the home the best demonstrated forces for the de- 

 velopment of efficient social personality. 



With a trained womanhood alert for defects and excellencies in 

 home conditions, the home as a social organization in its aid to per- 

 sonality would in time be much improved, for evolution would demand 

 new conditions and the women as guardians of the home through their 

 training would be responsive to these demands. 



That there is an awakened public conscience on the subject of the 

 dissemination of knowledge concerning public health is shown by the 

 facts that there is a movement on foot to take from the various govern- 

 ment bureaus those departments which relate especially to public health 

 and combine them in one health department, and a petition has been 

 prepared for congress asking that it provide by its bulletins help for 

 women in the homes similar to that which is furnished farmers by the 

 Department of Agriculture. 



All these are good signs of progress, but, after all, since now and 

 for many years to come society is going to demand that woman be the 

 guardian of the home, that she prepare the food, that she shall be her 

 children's closest teacher and friend, the most efficient manner of de- 

 veloping personality in the home will be by suitable education of the 

 growing girl and the young woman in preparation for her life's work. 



Conclusions 



The supreme test of our home organization according to the facts 

 which have been stated is whether or not through its means there is an 

 increase in vitality, mentality, morality and sociality and a decrease in 

 the number of abnormal, unmoral, desocialized and degraded. 



Some statistics tell us that when women remain in the home rather 

 than go into outside industry, that there is greater steadiness and in- 

 dustry on the part of the husband, owing supposedly to more hygienic 

 home conditions. 



Statistics tell us also that longevity is increasing, that it has in- 

 creased five years since 1855. 



Then our homes, standing as they do as the connecting link be- 

 tween the knowledge of what is best for the race and the finished 

 product in society, are doing a great work. 



