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that was largely the reason of his good success. I believe 

 that our success in those things that add to the honor of the 

 home will be the result of the earnest work of all and not 

 that one will meet with success. I might say, perhaps, that 

 my wife has great success with primroses, but when I think 

 a little I think perhaps I have had just as much to do with 

 it as she has. Each does just as much as the other, 



J. S. Stickney — While I agree in the main with Prof. 

 Garfield, I want to object to one point. I do not want to 

 believe that any one can listen to such a paper and not go 

 home and profit by it. I believe that something will result 

 from that paper in every home represented here to night. 

 To expect it all to be put into practice would be too much, 

 but it would be discouraging to me to know that none of it 

 took effect. 



I was very much struck with a letter I received not very 

 long ago, answering a series of questions. The letter was 

 from the wife and it was " we " all the way through. It 

 was one of the best letters I ever received. I also often 

 combat that same point. People often say " Why don't you 

 do so " but I always think why do they, not say " we ". 



H. C. Adams — This "we" business is running pretty 

 strong. It is all right enough as far as we have gone, but 

 I don't know where it is going to end. If I begin to talk to 

 my wife about our cows and owr flowers and our^ wire fence, 

 why by and by I shall have to talk about our bank account, 

 and I am afraid before very long it would get to be my 

 wife's bank account. 



G. J. Kellogg — If the woman takes the man in hand 

 soon enough after marriage she can teach him to say we. 



The idea of planting a certain number of trees for each 

 child is a good suggestion, and I like the idea of the pro- 

 ceeds of those trees going to the child. It might be carried 

 further into fruit culture. There is a good many good sug- 

 gestions in the paper that I wish we might put into practice. 



Mr. Harris — There is a good deal about this paper that 

 will not be lost. I believe it has some effect upon all that 

 heard it, and a great many who did not hear it will read it 

 and it will have an effect upon them. It is just such papers 



