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" Tlie question now is, wliicli proljlem in housekeeping sliall we 

 first take up for consideration ? There are so many questions that 

 it is liard to decide where to begin. To open the acquaintance, we 

 must choose a topic that is easy and common to the experience of 

 alL Let us make it /iS'i^^jf?^- — The Housewife's Stej)s. How many 

 do you think you take in preparing a meal and washing the dishes? 

 Have you any idea liow far you travel ? Count the number to-mor- 

 row when preparing breakfast. If you cannot count tlie whole 

 number, count as long as you can and guess at the rest. Then tell 

 us how many miles you travel each day, considering that twenty-six 

 hundred steps make a mile. As you probably prepare about a 

 thousand meals each year, tell us how many miles of meal travel 

 you make. I know of some women who, I am sure, have taken 

 steps enough to circumnavigate tlie globe and are not aware that 

 they have ever done anything remarkable either. This is just the 

 point to which we wish to arouse your attention — that you are 

 doing much more than you are aware of — and next we want to 

 consider whether it has all been unavoidable. If we find that, in 

 many instances, two steps could be made to do the work of three, 

 there will follow a saving of thirty-three per cent — a saving which 

 any manufacturer or merchant would seize with alacrity. I am sure 

 you need such a saving as much as they. 



" I wish you would write us on this topic, for it will enable us to 

 form an idea as to whether it is a profitable one for us to consider. 

 However, lest you may be too tired by taking too many of these 

 steps and cannot write, I hope j^ou will give us your address on the 

 enclosed card, put a one-cent stamp on the corner and mail it. By 

 that we will know that you wish to hear what the others have to &^y. 



"■ I think you understand that there is no cost to you in all that we 

 may do for you, as all expenses are paid by an appropriation made 

 by the State for University Extension of Agriculture." 



Suggestions feom Our Friends. 



In response to this, many letters were received containing valu- 

 able suggestions, and showing interest in the work of the women's 

 department. We have taken the liberty to print extracts from a 



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