TWELFTH DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 653 



has Burrounded him. Mothers, while teaching your daughter to be a 

 helpmate in some man's home, assist by all means in your power to the 

 acquirement of those finer sensibilities that give to girl or woman her 

 greatest charm. If you do this you will always keep your sons and daugh- 

 ters with you, and the old homestead will put on its holiday attire each 

 year when the family reunion takes place, and the glad young voices of 

 strong, vigorous, healthy grandchildren will hless you in your old age. 



