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not be educated from a financial standpoint as well as the men? 

 Second, architect. It is claimed that everyone is the architect of his 

 own life, and I say every woman should be the architect of lier own 

 home as far as possible. If there is to be a greater love and interest 

 in the home, we must have a different architecture and women must 

 help to bring it about. The architects of our home, are, almost with- 

 out exception, men and because of the lack of proper training and 

 education in co-operative housekeeping they have not b<^eu able to see 

 women's needs as they should. Third, cook and dietician; what does 

 not revolve around just those two words. I am sure the health, happi- 

 ness and efficiency of every member of the home is wrapped up in those 

 professions. Orison Mardeu says : "A cook is as useful and ought to be 

 as dignified a member of society as a college professor." Yet society 

 as a whole is still stupid and foolish enough to look down on the office 

 of cook as an inferior one. 



It would be well for every man to have a few dietetical and cooking 

 principles included in his education that he. might be a better home- 

 maker. 



If fathers and mothers could be made to feel that they are responsi- 

 ble for the health of their children and they alone, there would be more 

 co-operation in the home along these lines. 



Fourth, seamstress. Go into any school room .and judge of the aver- 

 age mother's qualifications in that respect, by the character of the chil- 

 drens clothing. It would make you feel that every boy and girl should 

 have a working power with needle, thread and thimble at their com- 

 mand. 



Fifth, milliner. Many dollars and hours of comfort could be saved 

 to women if they knew but a little of this profession. It would have 

 been more valuable to me than all the higher mathematics that I spent 

 hours upon, and have never used in my profession, l believe my brain 

 could have received some training when I was making a hat. 



Sixth, laundress. In the past the work of the laundry should have 

 been as much man's work as it was woman's work because of the 

 physical labor connected with it. To-day, with all the improved ma- 

 chinery it is good work for both men and women. Some skill and 

 training is required of any one who is responsible for clean, stainless 

 clothing in the home. 



Seventh, wife. Is there any profession known, unless it is that of 

 husband, that requires so much tact, education and training as that 

 of wife. Because of the lack of proper education in this respect, we 

 find one marriage in every ten a dismal failure, and made prominent in 

 our divorce courts. 



Eighth, mother. Here I must speak of motherhood and fatherhood 

 as one. "And the twain were made one." So we speak of two entering 

 the matrimonial sea and surely it is so when we come to the care and 

 training of the child in the home. We hear much to day about a train- 

 ed motherhood but very little about a trained fatherhood and to-day 

 the world is suffering as much for the one as the other. 



Do you suppose that if girls were being trained for proper mother- 

 hood, that they would select men to be the fathers of their children 



